Ashoka and Youth

Venture
Who are we?
PIONEERS OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Ashoka is the world’s first and largest community of more than
2,000 leading social entrepreneurs.

FINDERS OF INNOVATION
We find the most important social change ideas and support the
entrepreneurs behind them.

INTEGRATORS OF NEW IDEAS AND INITIATIVE

We connect social, business, financial and university leaders to
build an “eco-system” of initiatives that solve the fast-growing
social needs of the world.
Sound Bytes 6 (Bill 1)

“Social entrepreneurs are not content just

to give a fish, or teach how to fish.They will
not rest until they have revolutionized the
fishing industry.”
— Bill Drayton
 Ashoka and Youth Venture are shaping an
Everyone A Changemaker™ society:
every individual will take initiative, develop
solutions to social needs and drive
change. Every part of society will benefit
from having more changemakers, from a
company to a school to an entire country.
Why do we need more
changemakers?
 Social problems are increasingly complex and
difficult to solve

 Social problems have ever greater ramifications as

the world becomes more integrated

 Our society has the capacity to solve any problem;

it is a matter of putting enough ingenuity and effort
toward solving that problem
Who else values
changemakers?
Leading Companies Need CHANGEMAKERS

Examples of Ashoka’s
Companies seek a Partner Companies
competitive edge
through a talented Best Buy
workforce: MTV
• Problem solvers National Geographic
• Strong team players Nike
• Entrepreneurial Pepsi
initiative-takers Staples
• Empathetic leaders Starbucks
Virgin Mobile
Leading Universities Need CHANGEMAKERS

Universities seek
students who are
changemakers: Examples of Ashoka’s
• Able to create a Partner Universities
successful college
experience Duke University
MIT
• Willing to take on
New York University
campus leadership
Tec de Monterrey
roles
Universidad de San Andres
• Team players (Buenos Aires)
• Engaged in the
community
Sound Bytes 7 (Bill 2)

“The key factor for success of any human

grouping – be it a company or a country – will be
the proportion of changemakers it has to
develop new ideas, take initiative and lead.”
— Bill Drayton
 What is our
framework for creating
an Everyone a
Changemaker society?
We believe that the synergy
among a passionate “who,”
an innovative “what,” a
sustainable “how” in a
community of changemakers
can and will change the
world.
Ingredients To Creating an Everyone
a Changemaker Society

Surface Ignite Integrate innovations and

innovations
+ Changemakers + enable social change

 New  Drivers of  Piece together innovations

solutions to change who into larger solutions
problems build on  Financing, services,
innovations business-social
partnerships, academia –
the infrastructure to
support social change
What ASHOKA Brings to this Effort

Surface Ignite Integrate innovations

innovations
+ Changemakers + & enable social change

 Ashoka Venture  Youth Venture®  Ashoka Mosaics

 Changemakers.net  Changemaker  Business-social Hybrid
 Ashoka Academy Universities Value ChainsTM
Project  Social-Financial Services
 Knowledge and News
Initiative
 Who paves pathways
for changemakers and
social change?
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS Are Innovators
and Changemakers in One

They are men and women with

system changing solutions
to the world’s most urgent
social problems.

They are the engines of social

change and role models for
the citizen sector.
ASHOKA FELLOWS Are Leading Social
Entrepreneurs
 They create radically new solutions to a social problem with the
potential to change the entire sector

Selection Criteria:
 A New Idea
 Creativity
 Entrepreneurial Quality
 Social Impact
© Sylvain Piraux
 Ethical Fiber
Ashoka FELLOWS Worldwide

192
167
638

293

571
Ashoka Fellows: EXAMPLES

Fabio Rosa has helped cut rural electrification costs by

70-80% in Brazil and brought electricity to the homes of
over 1 million people. Fabio's innovation has spread to
23 countries worldwide.
Ashoka Fellows: EXAMPLES

JB Schramm, through College Summit, has enabled

over 10,000 low-income high school students gain
access to college through strategic assistance with the
admissions process. College Summit produces college-
going rates of 79%, almost double the 46% baseline
among low-income youth.
Social Change with LONG-TERM IMPACT
 Ashoka launches social
entrepreneurs and helps
spread their innovations to
new regions and new
industries
Social entrepreneurs don’t
do it ALONE…
Social Entrepreneurs Recruit Other
CHANGEMAKERS

A social entrepreneur
Changemakers enter the
pioneers and
new field, help build on
establishes a new field
the new idea, multiply
or a new pattern in
change and tip the world
society
An Example

Mohammad Yunus Today there are 7,000

pioneered the microfinance institutions that
microfinance industry have built on and multiplied
this new idea
Ashoka and Youth Venture Are BUILDING
the MARKET for Changemakers

Youth Venture is shaping a generation of

changemakers who will lead change
Supply throughout their lives, then inspire and
enable every next generation to do the
same. SUPPLY

Ashoka is creating demand for changemakers

by fostering an environment for creating
successful ventures and encouraging
Demand
institutions to realize their potential by hiring
these changemakers.
DEMAND
How does Youth Venture
work?
YV is producing a global supply of
CHANGEMAKERS
Of Youth Venturers:
 94% more confident in leading change
 70% greater interest in entrepreneurship
 77% more involved in leadership roles
 92% capable of planning a venture and
leading a team
 88% able to set and achieve goals
 79% able to do budgeting
 62% engage 20 or more volunteers in
their Venture
What Is a YOUTH VENTURE?
 A NEW venture started by young
people
 YOUTH-LED
 Creates IMPACT on the community
 Has a credible plan that will be
SUSTAINABLE
 Has an adult “ALLY” willing to
support, but not control, the
venture
 Involves a STRONG TEAM
 Venturers who CARE and have the
energy to be successful
Youth Venture Offers Four Integrated Pieces
To Build a Movement of CHANGEMAKERS
YV Campaigns YV Challenges
Inspire young people to Transformational experience
become changemakers that shapes young people as
changemakers in starting their
first social ventures

YV Summits YV Competitions
Build movement of Continually engage and support
changemakers and “tip” changemakers, enabling them to
communities grow as social entrepreneurs
YV Campaigns: EXAMPLE
YV Challenges: EXAMPLE

Steps of the YV
Journey
YV Summits: EXAMPLE

EXPANDING YOUTH IMPACT

YV Competitions: EXAMPLE
Youth Venture’s Current Reach
Youth Venture is operating in 17 countries and is growing

Canada Ireland Germany

France Belgium
United States Spain Israel
Mexico India Thailand

El Salvador Costa Rica

Brazil

Argentina South Africa

Chile
Example Venture - USA
Becca & team – No Boundaries
Leyton, Utah
The Idea

• A series of camps designed to expose girls

ages 4-10 to math and science
• Includes: Astrotots (space), Mad Female
Scientist (science experiments), and Love
Bugs-Science Camp for Wiggle Worms
(about the benefits of bugs)

Impact
• Hundreds of girls have benefited from the camps
• Becca and her project Astrotots were featured at the 2005 Presidential Inauguration
• Groups from as far away as India have requested to replicate Becca’s camps
Example Venture - Argentina
Emanuel & team – “Lucha Contra el Dengue”
(Struggle Against Dengue)
(Formosa, Argentina)
The idea
• Decrease the number of people affected by the
dengue virus in their region through prevention
activities
• Educate the community on dengue fever prevention
through skits, information materials and public
speaking

Impact
• More than 1,000 young people have been reached by the program in first 6 months
• The venture has already been replicated across the border in Paraguay by an independent
organization
Sound Bytes 4 (Kristof)

“The godfather of the social entrepreneur

movement is Bill Drayton, who founded…
Ashoka to support ‘change-makers.’ Now he
is heavily focused on nurturing student
social entrepreneurs, and he has started…
Youth Venture to support them.”
— Nicholas Kristof
 Sound Bytes 5 (Yunus)

“Ashoka is a great global organization,

built on a brilliant idea.”
— Muhammad Yunus
© Tribhuvan Tiwari
 Are you a
CHANGEMAKER?

Join us.