They also help engage with people to build their self-efficacy.
And finally, both organizations provide financial support and networks
that increase the level of perceived social support for their activities.
So we have just talked about the false dichotomy between UnLtd and Ashoka,
discussing that actually both organizations work together,
leading towards the kind of Ashoka fellows that we've heard talked about last week.
I'm now once again here with Åsa and Rebecca, and
I would like to ask you to talk a little bit more about the vision for Ashoka.
And actually,
I think your focus has shifted towards everybody being a changemaker.
Could you tell us a little bit more about that?
>> I think you sort of framed it perfectly in a sense,
you talked about this being a false dichotomy and that's how we view it.
And also I think how our fellows have understood and viewed it for
a long time, because if we think back to Jeroo and if we also look at other fellows.
Actually, the way they solve social problem
is that they are living the vision of everyone being a changemaker.
Think about Jeroo and the children.
She empowered them to pick up the phone and help other children,
that's being a changemaker.
So I think a lot of our fellows are both sort of
using this vision in their daily work to solve social problems.
They couldn't do it alone,
if we think 91% of the fellows have their ideas replicated, so we can't do it alone.
So I think this is just, to them,
obvious that this is the vision you have to live in order to solve social problems.
And I think you could also view it a little bit as an end in itself.
It's a different kind of world where people are empowered and feel that
they have the confidence to make change, to solve social problems around them.
>> Yeah, so I think that's very much it.
I think what we've seen from our fellows, electing 3,000 fellows around the world,
and working with a lot of different types of leaders and changemakers,
we see patterns and trends coming up.
And this is really interesting because it's actually where our vision stems from,
which is from our fellows.
We've realized that the greatest success factor of our fellows is the ability
to create other changemakers around them who take on that vision as their own.
It's not only about Jeroo with the vision, for example,
it's about the community of changemakers,
of millions of children around her that see that vision as their own as well.
So that's a key learning for Ashoka over the years, beginning from when we started
the field of social entrepreneurship in the early 1980s until where we are now,
which is an evolved mission and an evolved sense of scope in the sense that
we're working towards this goal of a world where everyone is a changemaker.
Now what does that mean on a more practical level?
We know that we want to build these skills in people around the world, freedom and
confidence, in order to create change and be problem solvers and
be empathetic leaders.
We also know that it requires a certain set of skills which are very much
our priority.
So in order to build those skills of changemaking in people around the world,
we work with many different programs and initiatives.
In particular, we're focused on young people.
We know that it begins when you are young, the sense of drive and
the sense of confidence in building something new.
So in the case of Jeroo,
working with young people, that affects them in a deep way for the future.
So at Ashoka, we now run various different programs and initiatives.
Perhaps you've heard of Ashoka U, which is a global program of Ashoka that
works to connect universities around the world that are innovative and
creative and thinking about the future of education.
Not as something static, but as something that must change in this constantly and
evolution.
So that's the one initiative of Ashoka working with higher education.
In addition to that, we are now working with a program called Changemaker Schools,
which is an initiative to actually connect not only the university system but also
primary and secondary schools around the world that have very innovative practices,
are entrepreneurial in the way they teach and see connections between members and
teachers within the school and unique and innovative ways.
So those are two examples of how we're working with young people.
We also run a program globally called Youth Venture,
which works with small fellowships and experiences for young changemakers to
help them work towards their goals as changemakers as well.
So you can see from this mix, not only are we working with young people,
we've made this bridge even further to working with businesses and
with companies to actually bring together and enable these different types of
changemakers from all different sectors within society to connect us over one core
goal which is actually to recognize that the world is constantly changing.
And we need to build these skills of changemaking in people so
that we can reach a better and even more innovative future.