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Ashoka and Youth Venture
Who are we?
PIONEERS OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIPAshoka is the world’s first and largest community of more than 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs.
FINDERS OF INNOVATIONWe 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 Partner Companies
Best BuyMTV
National GeographicNikePepsi
StaplesStarbucks
Virgin Mobile
Companies seek a competitive edge through a talented workforce: • Problem solvers • Strong team players • Entrepreneurial
initiative-takers • Empathetic leaders
Leading Universities Need CHANGEMAKERS
Examples of Ashoka’s Partner Universities
Duke UniversityMIT
New York UniversityTec de Monterrey
Universidad de San Andres (Buenos Aires)
Universities seek students who are changemakers: • Able to create a
successful college experience
• Willing to take on campus leadership roles
• Team players• 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.
Surface innovations
Ingredients To Creating an Everyone a Changemaker Society
Ignite Changemakers+ Integrate innovations and
enable social change +
New solutions to problems
Drivers of change who build on innovations
Piece together innovations into larger solutions Financing, services,
business-social partnerships, academia –the infrastructure to support social change
Ashoka Venture Changemakers.net Ashoka Academy
What ASHOKA Brings to this Effort
Youth Venture®
Changemaker Universities Project
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Ashoka Mosaics Business-social Hybrid
Value ChainsTM
Social-Financial Services Knowledge and News
Initiative
+Surface innovations
Ignite Changemakers
Integrate innovations & enable social change
Who paves pathways for changemakers and
social change?
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS Are Innovators and Changemakers in One
They are men and women withsystem 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
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Ashoka FELLOWS Worldwide
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571
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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.
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.
Ashoka Fellows: EXAMPLES
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
Changemakers enter the new field, help build on the new idea, multiply
change and tip the world
A social entrepreneur pioneers and
establishes a new field or a new pattern in
society
Mohammad Yunuspioneered the microfinance industry
Today there are 7,000 microfinance institutions that have built on and multiplied this new idea
An Example
Ashoka and Youth Venture Are BUILDING the MARKET for Changemakers
Youth Venture is shaping a generation of changemakers who will lead change throughout their lives, then inspire and enable every next generation to do the same.
Ashoka is creating demand for changemakers by fostering an environment for creating successful ventures and encouraging institutions to realize their potential by hiring these changemakers.
SUPPLY
Supply
Demand
DEMAND
How does Youth Venture work?
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
YV is producing a global supply of CHANGEMAKERS
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
What Is a YOUTH VENTURE?
Youth Venture Offers Four Integrated Pieces To Build a Movement of CHANGEMAKERS
Transformational experience that shapes young people as changemakers in starting their first social ventures
Build movement of changemakers and “tip” communities
Continually engage and support changemakers, enabling them to grow as social entrepreneurs
YV Challenges
YV Summits YV Competitions
YV Campaigns Inspire young people to become changemakers
YV Campaigns: EXAMPLE
YV Challenges: EXAMPLE
Steps of the YV Journey
YV Summits: EXAMPLE
EXPANDING YOUTH IMPACT
YV Competitions: EXAMPLE
Youth Venture is operating in 17 countries and is growing
Youth Venture’s Current Reach
Mexico
South Africa
IndiaUnited States
Brazil
Argentina
Thailand
GermanyFranceSpain
BelgiumCanada
Chile
Ireland
El Salvador Costa Rica
Israel
• 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)
The Idea
Becca & team – No Boundaries Leyton, Utah
• 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
Impact
Example Venture - USA
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
Emanuel & team – “Lucha Contra el Dengue” (Struggle Against Dengue)(Formosa, Argentina)
Example Venture - Argentina
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
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