FAST-TRACKING THE WORLD’S BEST IDEAS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

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What if… you could help accelerate your community to

make the change they want to see?

What if… you had a simple way to find and track innovators in a way

that is open and transparent to the stakeholders who are critical to making

this change thrive?

What if… this approach could deepen the impact and credibility

of the social sector and make change happen more efficiently and

effectively than ever before?

Changeshop is a new kind of global marketplace designed to support the growth of social innovations.

CHANGESHOP

Convenes the world’s innovators, investors and their supporters on one interconnected platform

Creates a marketplace to match offers to needs, fueling the connections that lead to investment, mentorship and networking

Provides tools for innovators to define, track and report on their progress with transparency

Incentivizes the growth and scaling of innovation through prizes

Allows for real-time collaboration and knowledge-sharing that maximizes efficiency and accelerates the impact of solutions

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FOR INNOVATORS

CHANGESHOPChangeshop provides an open source mechanism for innovators to share their ideas with the world and access the resources they need to get to the next level. Through their Changeshop, innovators can:

Identify new opportunities

Track progress and growth

Respond to needs and offers in the community marketplace

Collaborate with other innovators

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A targeted ecosystem for fostering the growth of innovations

A Community Changeshop offers the opportunity to source innovations and convene online communities related to a particular area of interest, to transparently track and incentivize the growth and scaling of innovations, and to interconnect the broader ecosystem in which investors, innovators, and supporters interact.

COMMUNITY CHANGESHOP

COMMUNITY CHANGESHOP

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COMMUNITY CHANGESHOP

Changemakers provides a platform for investors to respond to the needs of a constantly-evolving innovation landscape and source investment-grade innovations from the frontlines of social change.

Source social innovations related to any area of focus, across sectors and vet those ripe for investment or fellowship opportunities

Convene partners and grantees in an online space that fosters capacity building through the exchange of offers and needs, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration

Centralize communication with grantees and partners around events, activities, and opportunities for engagement.

Create a hub that fosters knowledge sharing between thought-leaders, partners, and innovators

FOR PARTNERS

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KEY FEATURES

Competition engine: Changemakers is now helping partners launch their own competitions using the suite of tools and methods we have developed over the past seven years.

Social media integration: Changemakers.com can integrate with Facebook, Twitter, and other social media through customizable widgets and APIs.

Community management tools: Our tools will help you mobilize and communicate with your community, as well as provide metrics and analysis on your dashboard.

Your branded, customizable Community Changeshop also includes:

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For the past seven years, Changemakers’ groundbreaking competitions have galvanized movements around particular areas of innovation, channeling both attention and investment..

Over 50 competitions to date

More than 10,000 innovations surfaced

Investment-grade innovations sourced in partnership with Nike, eBay, Google, Rockefeller Foundation and many other major corporations and foundations

Over $600 million in funding leveraged for the most promising solutions

COLLABORATIVE COMPETITIONS

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Our impact campaigns capture the insights and share the stories of social change. Through interviews, blog posts, videos, and social and new media, Changemakers can amplify your impact at three levels:

An impression campaign would solidify the achievements of your community to provide inspiration and prompt collaboration,

An awareness campaign would broaden the reach of solutions –bringing them to new audiences in order to attract new collaborators, new media partners, and new funders;

An action campaign would build the infrastructure through collaboration with thought leaders, policy-makers, foundations, and leading media and events to support sustained action leading to systems change.

IMPACT CAMPAIGNS

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KNOWLEDGEOur acceleration services map patterns of innovation and inform

opportunities for collaboration and acceleration across diverse fields.

INNOVATOR BOOT CAMPSConvene emerging innovators for an

intensive acceleration experience around the art of changemaking

GROWTH PRIZESIncentivize growth among innovators at a particular

stage or in a particular field through targeted funding envelopes and engagement with Growth Partners

ASSISTED MATCHMAKINGFaciliate connections and exchanges for a specific group of innovators to allow them

to accelerate the full market potential of their innovations

KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING RETAINER SERVICES

Facilitate regular trend and innovator analyses, thought leader dialogues, and co-learning strategy discussions

to accelerate and scale change

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OUR PARTNERSIn the past seven years, Changemakers has led more than 50 collaborative competitions, sourced more than 10,000 innovations from 125 countries, and channeled $600 million directly to social innovators.

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WHAT THEY SAY “Ashoka Changemakers provides a groundbreaking and elective process for sourcing and

supporting innovations. The platform creates a space where innovators can collaborate with each other to work and grow their ideas.”

Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation

“Our relationship with Ashoka Changemakers is an important opportunity to identify innovative and impact-oriented solutions. By supporting Ashoka Fellows who witness and understand the needs of these communities, the GE Foundation can enable systematic improvements for local communities, organizations, and practitioners.”

Bob Corcoran, President of the GE Foundation

“The Changemakers open source competition model let us shorten our three- to four-year call for proposals process for identifying investment-grade opportunities to three or four months, while delivering an equivalent number of quality projects.”

Nancy Barrand, Pioneer Portfolio, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

“Ashoka’s engaged global community helps each social entrepreneur have more impact than would have been possible individually.”

Pierre Omidyar, Ebay Founder and Ashoka Investor

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WHO WE ARE

Ashoka is a global association of leading social entrepreneurs with system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Ashoka has elected 3,000 social entrepreneurs as Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 70 countries. Ashoka Fellows help identify and inspire others to adopt and spread their innovations, demonstrating that all people have the potential to elect powerful change.

Our Open Growth™ system builds on Ashoka’s three-decade history to create a global online community and marketplace that connects social innovators, investors, media, and enthusiasts. Users share, collaborate on, fund, and scale innovations that drive measurable and lasting social change.

To learn more about opportunities for partnering with Ashoka Changemakers please contact:

Partnerships TeamPartnerships@changemakers.com