This document provides information about Ashoka Turkey, a non-profit organization that supports social entrepreneurs. It lists several Turkish Ashoka Fellows and the issues they work on, such as civic engagement, women's empowerment, minority rights, and the environment. It also discusses an event called changemakerXchange that brought together 40 young social entrepreneurs from different countries. Finally, it provides definitions of key terms like social entrepreneurship and explains that social entrepreneurs use business skills to achieve social impact rather than profit.
6. Ashoka Fellows from Turkey
Turkish Ashoka Fellows (elected from 2000 to 2007)
Full List of Ashoka Turkey Fellows
ARZUM MELEKSOY
Civic Engagement, Alışbağış
BERNA YAGCI
Women’s Empowerment, Nifüfer
Women’s Coop
EGEMEN YILGÜR
Minority Rights, Cingeneyiz.org
ERCAN TUTAL
Handicapped, Alternative Life
HALİME GÜNER
Women’s Rights, UçanSüpürrge
İBRAHİM BETİL
Youth Engagement, Community
Volunteers
KORHAN GÜMÜŞ
Civic Engagement, Human
Settlements
MUSTAFA SARI
Environment
NASUH MAHRUKİ
Civic Engagement, AKUT
NAŞİDE BULUTTEKİN
Children, Ray of Hope
NEBAHAT AKKOÇ
Women’s Empowerment, KAMER
NEJAT ÜNLÜ
Health, HIV+, Positive Life
NEVİN ERACAR
Handicapped, Autism Association
ÖMER MADRA
Civic Engagement, Açık Radyo
SELMA DEMİRELLİ
Nifüfer Women’s Coop
SENEM GÜL
Children, First Step Coop
ŞENGÜL AKÇAR
Gender Equity, Support for
Women’s Work
VİKTOR ANANİAS
GÜNEŞİN AYDEMİR
Environment , Bugday Association
YASEMİN KILIÇ
Environment
YUSUF KULCA
Street Children, Children of Hope
ZEYNEP ULUER
Civic Engegement, Corporate
Volunteers
NAZMI ILICALI
Rural Development, Organic
Farmers Coop
TAHIR DADAK
Rural Development, Development
Center
Ibrahim Betil / Ashoka Senior Fellow
Nasuh Mahruki
Sengul Akcar
Mustafa Sari
12. Social Entrepreneurship:
Often refered to how business and management
skills can be applied to achieve social ends
BUT
(in Ashoka‘s view) social entrepreneurship is a
transformative force
We look at IMPACT, not at organizational
structures or specific means of achieving Impact
14. Entrepreneur: (not someone who simply
opens a business, but) someone who shifts
economic resources out of an area of lower and
into an area of higher productivity and great yield
(Jean Baptiste Say, French economist)
Social Entrepreneur: Someone who
changes the performance capacity of society
(Peter F. Drucker, Management Expert)
15. David Bornstein, Author of „How to change the world“
What business entrepreneurs
are to the economy, social
entrepreneurs are to social
change.