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Ashoka Fellowship

  • Organization: Ashoka – Innovators for the Public
  • Type: Fellowship
  • Location: Global
  • Funding: Partially Funded

The Ashoka Fellowship identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs who are driving systemic change. Selection Criteria: - New Idea: Must introduce a truly innovative solution to a social problem. - Creativity: Demonstrated vision and problem-solving ability. - Entrepreneurial Quality: Commitment to scaling the idea, often over 10 to 15 years. - Social Impact: Potential for nationwide or regional systemic change. - Ethical Fiber: Trusted leadership and integrity. Additional considerations: - Candidates must work full-time on their idea. - Must have a nonprofit legal structure or safeguards if for-profit arms exist. - Must show local connection and deep understanding of the community impacted. - Work must be beyond ideation stage, with proven impact and readiness to scale. - Cannot be affiliated with partisan politics or discriminatory movements. Benefits: - Financial support to dedicate full-time to their work - Entry into Ashoka’s global fellowship network (largest of its kind, 40+ years old) - Peer support, visibility, and collaboration opportunities - Lifelong fellowship membership

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Ashoka Fellowship

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Opportunity type
Fellowship
Funding
Partially Funded
Location
Global
Deadline
Rolling

About this opportunity

The Ashoka Fellowship identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs who are driving systemic change. Selection Criteria:

  • New Idea: Must introduce a truly innovative solution to a social problem.
  • Creativity: Demonstrated vision and problem-solving ability.
  • Entrepreneurial Quality: Commitment to scaling the idea, often over 10 to 15 years.
  • Social Impact: Potential for nationwide or regional systemic change.
  • Ethical Fiber: Trusted leadership and integrity. Additional considerations:
  • Candidates must work full-time on their idea.
  • Must have a nonprofit legal structure or safeguards if for-profit arms exist.
  • Must show local connection and deep understanding of the community impacted.
  • Work must be beyond ideation stage, with proven impact and readiness to scale.
  • Cannot be affiliated with partisan politics or discriminatory movements. Benefits:
  • Financial support to dedicate full-time to their work
  • Entry into Ashoka’s global fellowship network (largest of its kind, 40+ years old)
  • Peer support, visibility, and collaboration opportunities
  • Lifelong fellowship membership

Who can apply

  • Must be a social entrepreneur with a new idea and proven impact
  • Must commit full‑time to the initiative
  • Must have nonprofit legal safeguards
  • Must submit:
  • Nomination form (recommendation by peers or self‑nomination)
  • Evidence of innovation and impact
  • References and community validation

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Good to know

  • +You can put yourself forward. The live form asks 'Are you nominating yourself?', so a young social entrepreneur does not have to wait to be spotted
  • +Ashoka publishes exactly what candidates are judged on: five criteria plus seven further considerations that will not result in automatic rejection, so you can self-assess before spending the time
  • +The prize is a life-long fellowship, not a one-off: a global peer community across 94 active countries, increased visibility, curated engagement, and a conditional stipend of up to three years
  • +Running since 1980, and Ashoka describes the selection itself as useful, sharpening the candidate's own strategy even where it does not end in selection

Worth checking yourself

  • !The closing date could not be confirmed on the organisation's own pages. This listing shows no deadline, which does not mean applications are open indefinitely. Check the official page before you plan around it.
  • !Funding is not guaranteed, which changes what this record currently claims. Ashoka's FAQ asks 'Do all Ashoka Fellows get financial support?' and answers 'No', and the stipend is offered 'if needed'. Fellows who can already fund their own time do not receive support
  • !No deadline is published anywhere and Ashoka never says nominations are rolling. The record displays Rolling; that is an inference nobody at Ashoka has made in writing
  • !Geography gate: Ashoka works in 94 countries and applications from elsewhere are archived for three years or until operations reopen
  • !The bar is world-leading social entrepreneurs with a systems-changing idea already spreading. Fellows must be full time for the first three years. Most applicants early in their career will not clear it
  • !The apply link is a recommendation form, not an application, and no page gives a decision timeline

What we could not confirm

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