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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.

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“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

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“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

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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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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

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“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

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“Ashoka is a great global organization, built on a brilliant idea.”

— Muhammad Yunus

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