Ashoka Fellow Diya Abdo founded Every Campus A Refuge after a simple insight: universities have housing, resources, and often a high density of changemakers. Why not put them to work? It's now grown into a national movement in the US. Join Diya next week: www.ashoka.org/en-us/event/...

When 1 in 6 people are excluded from how we design workplaces, cities and communities, the design needs to change. With the support of the Seneca Trust, Ashoka has been mapping and expanding the community of social innovators who work on and with disability: disability.ashoka.org/changemaking...

How can we get society to hire more, and pollute less? Our recently elected Ashoka Fellow, Femke Groothuis and her team at @the.extax.project are pushing for a tax shift in which it becomes cheaper to employ people, and more expensive to damage the planet. #NetworkInsights #WorkersDay

Happening soon 👉️ Changemaking Without Barriers: Ashoka's Insights in the Field of Disabilities. Join us online on May 6. Register now: www.ashoka.org/en-us/event/...

#ICYMI - Michael Zakaras, the director of @ashoka.org US, joins us to discuss the vision of an everyone-a-changemaker society. It’s a really fun and enlightening conversation. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙

"The Visionary Program is the only place in the world where you can access all of our knowledge on systems change and changemaking while meeting multiple Ashoka Fellows and becoming part of the global family of changemakers." Read more and apply! www.ashoka-visionaryprogram.org

India spends $150 billion a year on social protections, yet many benefits go unclaimed due to the complexity of accessing them. Meet Ashoka Fellow Tarun Cherukuri, founder of Indus Action, an organization using technology and grassroots advocacy to close the gap. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Happening soon 👉️ Changemaking Without Barriers: Ashoka's Insights in the Field of Disabilities. Join us online on May 6. Register now: www.ashoka.org/en-us/event/...

The world can sometimes feel like it's unraveling, but if we look closer, we'll find there are people everywhere redesigning it for the better. Seven stories from Ashoka Fellows this month: From Emmy nominations to Vatican climate advisory to genome sequencing for kids in 14 countries.

Shifting roles is a core part of systems change. Ashoka Fellow Francesca Fedeli and FightTheStroke are transforming rehabilitation for cerebral palsy by shifting who drives care, where therapy happens, and how knowledge spreads. Full systems change story: globalizer.ashoka.org/casestudies/...

Social media platforms are designed to optimize for engagement. But this can lead to polarizing and divisive content. Ashoka Fellow Helena Puig at Build Up created the Polarization Footprint to measure this. Why? If polarization can be measured, it can also be addressed through policy and regulated

Join our free online workshop series: four interactive 90-minute sessions for changemakers who want to explore new leadership in times of increasing complexity and polarization. 🗓 April 8th to April 29th, 2026, at 15:00 CET        👉 Apply by April 1st:   community.ashoka.org/en/learn/cha...

Across completely different fields (mental health, climate, tech, justice...) the same pattern keeps showing up: People are solving problems by changing the rules behind them. From a bench in Zimbabwe to a courtroom in Spain to FBI tools. This is what it looks like when ideas scale into systems.

They own their trees. They own their data. They own 70% of their carbon revenues. Ashoka Fellow Krutika Ravishankar built Farmers for Forests to make sure smallholder farmers in India are active participants in the green economy. Watch how technology is turning land restoration into livelihoods.

A democracy is only as strong as the voices it protects. Ashoka Fellow Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and her team at HateAid are making sure no one is silenced out of the conversation. #SystemsChange #NetworkInsights

Social entrepreneurs changing systems: from digital polarization to newborn health. This month, Ashoka Fellows are tackling polarization tracking, AI border risks, sustainable tech, food systems, and employment equity. #SocialInnovation | #NetworkInsights

Namati is building a movement of community paralegals across Asia, Africa, and America who know, use, and shape the law. Tune in on Feb. 18 to hear founder Vivek Maru, an Ashoka Fellow, to discuss new efforts ensuring communities have meaningful input on land use. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you an Ashoka Fellow? These research resources are for you! Following the success of the first round of research support last year, we're opening a new call for Ashoka Fellows anywhere in the world. If you're interested, reach out to your local Ashoka contact for more info!

What does a world with caring mascunilities look like? Hear from Ashoka Fellow Gary Barker, CEO of Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice and major contributor to gender equality and healthy masculinity. Find out more about his work: www.ashoka.org/en-us/fellow...

Systems can change for the better. This month, Ashoka Fellows helped rewrite the rules on climate action, inclusion, and knowledge access. Here's how ⬇️

Join our workshop series for changemakers activating others to lead change ✨ These standalone workshops, offered free of charge, explore how to unlock agency in others, strengthen collaboration, and build the tools needed to drive positive impact. Sign up today 👉 community.ashoka.org/en/unlocking...

The negative impacts that environmental damage has on people and communities can now be prosecuted under international law. This was partly influenced by Ashoka Fellow Flaviano Bianchini, who equips local communities with tools to document pollution's impact on their health and lives. Find out more

What if empathy wasn't just a value, but a rule of the game? Empathy FC is a new blueprint for football with empathy structurally built in. 🔗 sportforchangemaking.ashoka.org/empathy-fc

Empathy FC | Ashoka Sports for Changemaking

Empathy FC is a team for all; a team of changemakers working to make football a place where everyone belongs.

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Ashoka now has 5 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates! 🎉 From ending child labor (Kailash Satyarthi) to pioneering microfinance (Muhammad Yunus) and protecting the Amazon (Carlos Nobre), our Fellows are shaping a better world. Congrats to María Corina Machado, this year’s Laureate! #SocialImpact

As 2025 comes to a close, let’s look back on how we at Ashoka are measuring big change. Our network of Fellows, staff alumni, young changemakers, and more are shifting policies, markets, and mindsets. Scroll to dive into more insights!

🤲 Across the globe, family carers provide care for loved ones who have disabilities or chronic illnesses. Yet their work is unpaid and invisible, forcing many to sacrifice income and education. 💞 Ashoka Fellow Anil Patel helps carers in build community and gain financial stability.

🏥 In Rwanda, public hospitals don't provide meals as part of patient care, forcing low-income patients to skip or spend up to 75% of their daily income to buy them. 🍽️ Ashoka Fellow Isabelle Kamariza created a farm-to-fork system to deliver free, medically tailored meals to patients in hospitals.

🌲️ Currently, India has very limited forest cover. 🌱 Ashoka Fellow Krutika Ravishankar is helping smallholder farmers access the carbon market transparently and safely. ⬆️️ Read more about Krutika's #NewIdea here!

👁️ 1.1 billion people live with avoidable vision loss. 📱 Ashoka Fellow Andrew Bastawrous is transforming eye care around the world. ⬆️️ Read more about Andrew’s #NewIdea here!

👁️ 1.1 billion people live with avoidable vision loss. 📱 Ashoka Fellow Andrew Bastawrous is transforming eye care around the world. ⬆️️ Read more about Andrew’s #NewIdea here!