Donate Fundraising: Ashoka
Ashoka
Your donation goes to support the core mission of:
Ashoka, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Ashoka envisions a world where Everyone is a
Changemaker: a world that responds quickly and effectively to social
challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and
societal support to address any social problem and drive change.
Mission
Ashoka strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world’s citizens to think and act as changemakers.
Recent Cause Activity
Updated: The cause has reached 3,000 members.
Updated: The cause has reached 3,000 members.
Updated: The cause has reached 3,000 members.
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This holiday Ashoka is offering memberships for those who donate at least $35. Donors will receive a set of 8 cool postcards AND a year-long subscription to GOOD magazine. For more information visit http://www.ashoka.org/membership
This holiday Ashoka is offering memberships for those who donate at least $35. Donors will receive a set of 8 cool postcards AND a year-long subscription to GOOD magazine. For more information visit http://www.ashoka.org/membership
Updated: The cause has reached 2,000 members.
Updated: The cause has reached 2,000 members.
Updated: The cause has reached 2,000 members.
Help Ashoka raise $2 million by August 31, 2008 to support new Fellows
Dear Friends,
One of the joys of working for Ashoka is the direct exposure we get to dedicated social entrepreneurs and their innovative approaches to social change. Where else could you work with a man training rats to detect landmines and early-stage tuberculosis in Africa? Or a woman who is providing vaccines to millions of the world's poor despite their being deemed "unprofitable" by major drug companies? Or an individual who is creating thousands of jobs for Americans that are protecting rather than harming the environment?
We invite you—friends of Ashoka—to contribute a gift so that we can support social entrepreneurs across the globe in their quests to improve societies. Seventy percent of our annual budget comes from individuals like you. Ashoka has raised $30 million so far this year, but seeks $2 million more to invest in another 30 Ashoka Fellows by August 31st, 2008.
Any contribution you can make will help individuals such as the ones featured below to achieve their visions and truly change the world. Invest here!
https://invest-ashoka.org/01/invest_i...
Read about 3 of our 2,000 Ashoka Fellows below:
Bart Weetjens (Tanzania) APOPO
Bart’s breakthrough work with African Giant Pouched rats is significantly reducing the presence of landmines in Africa and offering earlier detection of tuberculosis. Bart and his organization Apopo train rats to use their hypersensitive sense of smell to find land mines responsible for the injury or death of over 12,000 people per year in Africa. The rats are also trained to detect early-stage tuberculosis, which has implications for improved treatment of the disease, higher cure rates and lower transmission. Bart continues to develop his strategies both in Africa and beyond, advancing the health and security of communities suffering from the effects of war and infectious disease.
Victoria Hale (Global) One World
Victoria, a veteran of the pharmaceutical and biotech communities, founded OneWorld Health to work with the mainstream pharma industry in bringing new drugs to the world's poor. Her organization is pioneering a global system for producing and distributing low-cost drugs, often those partially developed by big pharmaceutical companies but never brought to market because their target population was not deemed profitable. Through OneWorld Health, drug companies can devote significant intellectual, human, and financial resources to humanitarian drug development without assuming the commercial risks associated with bringing out new products for relatively small and poor markets.
Van Jones (US) Green For All
In 1996, Van co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to lead a social movement against injustice, police brutality, racial bias, and the loss of civil liberties in our criminal justice system and overcrowded prisons. Over the past five years, Van has emerged as a national environmental leader. His most recent organization, Green For All, has coined the term "green-collared jobs"—jobs in industries like wind turbine manufacturing, solar panel installation, energy efficiency retrofits, and green building. Van's job creation is not only bettering the environment, but is also creating a more productive US-based workforce during a time when jobs are being shifted abroad.
Help Ashoka raise $2 million by August 31, 2008 to support new Fellows
Dear Friends,
One of the joys of working for Ashoka is the direct exposure we get to dedicated social entrepreneurs and their innovative approaches to social change. Where else could you work with a man training rats to detect landmines and early-stage tuberculosis in Africa? Or a woman who is providing vaccines to millions of the world's poor despite their being deemed "unprofitable" by major drug companies? Or an individual who is creating thousands of jobs for Americans that are protecting rather than harming the environment?
We invite you—friends of Ashoka—to contribute a gift so that we can support social entrepreneurs across the globe in their quests to improve societies. Seventy percent of our annual budget comes from individuals like you. Ashoka has raised $30 million so far this year, but seeks $2 million more to invest in another 30 Ashoka Fellows by August 31st, 2008.
Any contribution you can make will help individuals such as the ones featured below to achieve their visions and truly change the world. Invest here!
https://invest-ashoka.org/01/invest_i...
Read about 3 of our 2,000 Ashoka Fellows below:
Bart Weetjens (Tanzania) APOPO
Bart’s breakthrough work with African Giant Pouched rats is significantly reducing the presence of landmines in Africa and offering earlier detection of tuberculosis. Bart and his organization Apopo train rats to use their hypersensitive sense of smell to find land mines responsible for the injury or death of over 12,000 people per year in Africa. The rats are also trained to detect early-stage tuberculosis, which has implications for improved treatment of the disease, higher cure rates and lower transmission. Bart continues to develop his strategies both in Africa and beyond, advancing the health and security of communities suffering from the effects of war and infectious disease.
Victoria Hale (Global) One World
Victoria, a veteran of the pharmaceutical and biotech communities, founded OneWorld Health to work with the mainstream pharma industry in bringing new drugs to the world's poor. Her organization is pioneering a global system for producing and distributing low-cost drugs, often those partially developed by big pharmaceutical companies but never brought to market because their target population was not deemed profitable. Through OneWorld Health, drug companies can devote significant intellectual, human, and financial resources to humanitarian drug development without assuming the commercial risks associated with bringing out new products for relatively small and poor markets.
Van Jones (US) Green For All
In 1996, Van co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to lead a social movement against injustice, police brutality, racial bias, and the loss of civil liberties in our criminal justice system and overcrowded prisons. Over the past five years, Van has emerged as a national environmental leader. His most recent organization, Green For All, has coined the term "green-collared jobs"—jobs in industries like wind turbine manufacturing, solar panel installation, energy efficiency retrofits, and green building. Van's job creation is not only bettering the environment, but is also creating a more productive US-based workforce during a time when jobs are being shifted abroad.
Updated: The cause has raised $1,000.
photo with vice-president for children in remote area.