Ashoka and Youth Venture are organizations that support social entrepreneurs and youth-led social ventures around the world. Ashoka finds and supports innovative social entrepreneurs through providing funding and connecting them with resources. Youth Venture helps young people launch social ventures in their communities by providing training, funding competitions, and networking opportunities to support youth-led solutions to social problems. Together, these organizations aim to develop a global community of social entrepreneurs and youth leaders who can drive positive social change.

1. Ashoka and Youth
Venture

2. Who are we?

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Why do we need more
changemakers?

7.  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

8. Who else values
changemakers?

9. 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
Pepsi
• Entrepreneurial
Staples
initiative-takers
Starbucks
• Empathetic leaders
Virgin Mobile

10. Leading Universities Need CHANGEMAKERS
Universities seek
students who are
Examples of Ashoka’s
changemakers:
Partner Universities
• Able to create a
successful college
Duke University
experience
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

11. 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

12. What is our
framework for creating
an Everyone a
Changemaker society?

13. 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.

14. Ingredients To Creating an Everyone
a Changemaker Society
Surface Ignite Integrate innovations and
+ Changemakers +
innovations enable social change
 Piece together innovations
 New  Drivers of
into larger solutions
solutions to change who
problems build on  Financing, services,
innovations business-social
partnerships, academia –
the infrastructure to
support social change

15. What ASHOKA Brings to this Effort
Surface Ignite Integrate innovations
+ Changemakers + & enable social change
innovations
 Ashoka Venture  Youth Venture®  Ashoka Mosaics
 Changemakers.net  Changemaker  Business-social Hybrid
Universities Value ChainsTM
 Ashoka Academy
Project  Social-Financial Services
 Knowledge and News
Initiative

16. Who paves pathways
for changemakers and
social change?

17. 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.

18. 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
 Ethical Fiber
© Sylvain Piraux

19. Ashoka FELLOWS Worldwide
192
167
638
293
571

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Social Change with LONG-TERM IMPACT

23. Ashoka launches social
entrepreneurs and helps
spread their innovations to
new regions and new
industries

24. Social entrepreneurs don’t
do it ALONE…

25. 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

26. An Example
Mohammad Yunus Today there are 7,000
pioneered the microfinance institutions that
microfinance industry have built on and multiplied
this new idea

27. 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

28. How does Youth Venture
work?

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. YV Campaigns: EXAMPLE

33. YV Challenges: EXAMPLE
Steps of the YV
Journey

34. YV Summits: EXAMPLE
EXPANDING YOUTH IMPACT

35. YV Competitions: EXAMPLE

36. Youth Venture’s Current Reach
Youth Venture is operating in 17 countries and is growing
Canada Ireland Germany
France Belgium
United States Israel
Spain
Mexico Thailand
India
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Brazil
South Africa
Argentina
Chile

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. Sound Bytes 5 (Yunus)
“Ashoka is a great global organization,
built on a brilliant idea.”
— Muhammad Yunus
© Tribhuvan Tiwari

41. Are you a
CHANGEMAKER?
Join us.