Ashoka, the largest network of social innovators, is supporting 3,200 fellows globally, including 13 solutions for refugee integration showcased in Germany. Notable fellows include David Lubell, who helps cities establish welcoming committees, and Abdoulaye Fall, who creates immigrant-led financial savings groups. The recent innovation conference on integration, part of the Hello Festival, facilitated numerous partnerships and raised over €220,000 for an integration innovation fund.

1. Ashoka is the world‘s largest network of Social Innovators,
supporting 3.200 „Ashoka Fellows“ around the world.

2. 13 outstanding solutions for the integration of refugees
were selected to be presented in Germany.
Work and Financial Security Welcoming Culture and Acceptance
Nicole Cicerani,
Upwardly Global (USA)
James Movel Wuye,
Interfaith Mediation Centre (Nigeria)
Abdoulaye Fall,
Winkomun (Spain)
Nathanaël Molle,
SINGA (France)
David Lubell,
Welcoming America (USA)
Education and Participation
Shai Reshef, University of
the People (Israel, global) Living and Health Care
Mary Nally,
Third Age (Ireland)
Inge Missmahl,
IPSO (Germany, Afghanistan)
Sascha Haselmayer,
Citymart (Spain, USA)
Daniel Kerber,
More Than Shelters (Germany)
Charlotte Frey,
Climb (Germany)
David Levin,
Refugee Open Ware (USA)
Johann Olav Koss,
Right To Play (USA)

3. Two examples of the international Ashoka Fellows
selected for Germany.
David Lubell, Welcoming America (USA)
•helps cities to set up welcoming committees
who then use simple but very effective
measures that reduce the fears of its citizens
•successful implementation in 115 US cities, in
negotiations with multiple German cities
Abdoulaye Fall, Winkomun (Spain)
•creates small self-sustaining, immigrant-led
financial savings groups
•the collected funds can be given out as loans
among the group for investments, emergen-cies
or setting up businesses and thereby stabilize
the migrant community financially
•has been successfully applied in six European
countries

4. Ashoka‘s Innovation Conference on Integration was part
of the three-day „Hello Festival“ initiated by Zalando.

5. The Innovation Conference was part of a longer process.
• webinars and weekly
preparation calls on scaling
models with 45 McKinsey
consultants and migration
and policy experts
• pre-matching with
interesting partners in
Germany including public
decision makers
• arrangement of 60+ pre-
talks with potential partners
Preparation with Experts
8 weeks
Matching and Seed Funding
through the Innovation Fund
8+ weeks
Hello Festival and
Innovation Conference
• co-organized with 10+
high-level partners from
business, foundations,
social welfare organizations
& federal ministries
• 400 decision makers as
participants
• around 10 nationwide
media pieces about the
conference or participating
social entrepreneurs
• lots of open doors to public
decision makers
• more than 220.000 € raised
for the “Innovation Fund on
Integration”
• post-process to support

6. The Innovation Conference on Integration

7. Questions relevant to you
1. Our Ashoka colleagues in Italy,
Greece, Turkey, Spain, Austria,
Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden
would like to do the same.
How can you help?
2. We are discussing pan-
European partnerships, i.e.
with UNHCR. Do you have
contacts to other multinational
organizations interested in
scaling proven solutions?

8. Thank you very much
Rainer Höll
Managing Director
Ashoka Germany
rhoell@ashoka.org