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Ashoka   Switzerland - Impact Report 2021

Selecting and supporting nearly 3,700 social entrepreneurs globally. 

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Selecting and supporting nearly 3,700 social entrepreneurs globally

Ashoka&#39;s Impact Snapshot | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker

Sales Economic development Education Human rights Civic participation Health Environment Other 0.2 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.16 0.12 0.01

Scaling social impact: Stories from Switzerland. ASHOKA. 

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Scaling social impact:  Stories from Switzerland

Financial support:  Swiss Fellows  Caroline Kant   and  Alain Werner  received   stipends   supporting   them   with   their   changemaker   work .

Ashoka aims to foster collaboration between  F ellows to encourage  know-how transfer . In  average   our   Fellows   collaborate   with  4 of  their   peers .

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Ashoka   gives   Fellows   access  to the  ecosystem , e.g.  potential   donors ,  investors , and  other  relevant  partners   who  can  scale   their  impact.

In 2021,  Swiss  Ashoka  Fellow  Christophe  Dunand’s   Réalise   rolled  out a  digital  skills  trainings  for  adults   with   low  qualifications in Zurich. T his program results from a cooperation with a French Ashoka Fellow  Fréd   Bardeau  (Simplon), after they met at an Ashoka retreat. We showcased this partnership at an event and invited local stakeholders. A foundation who attended then decided to fund the preparatory phase of the scale-up to German-speaking Switzerland.

For  example ,  Swiss Ashoka Fellow Jonas Staub from  Blindspot  collaborated with myAbility from Austria. Both  organisations  are aiming to build a more inclusive society and raise awareness about the opportunity of having disabled people as coworkers and clients.

Exploring how Swiss foundations can better support system changers. 

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Exploring how Swiss foundations can better support system changers

How can we fund systems change? This is the question that a number of foundations, philanthropy and systems change experts and social innovators gathered around, co-convened by Ashoka Switzerland and  collaboratio   helvetica .

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The  Funding Systems Change Initiative  was launched in September 2021. Since then, we have been investigating, sharing insights and best practices, and developing possible new approaches to advance impact and fund systems change.  This work is based on  Embracing Complexity , a global report co-authored by Ashoka in 2020, which pointed to a key observation: systemic challenges require systemic answers, but currently the dominant funding practices are ill-suited to support them.

Funding Systems Change initiative: First insights. 

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Funding Systems Change initiative:  First insights

Here are  five dimensions  essential to consider when willing to support systems change:       Change of mindset  and new definition      of success         Trust   at the core      New  impact measurement frameworks       need ed        Eye-to- eye   collaboration      Time:  Long-term horizon  and invest ing      in a vision.

“How to fund systemic change is a difficult question that preoccupies us, and I would wish that as foundations we would address it together, do the needed reflection work, starting with ourselves and with our partners.”​ Manuela  Balett ,  Geschäftsführerin  Leopold Bachmann Stiftung ​

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Strengthening the changemaker community in Switzerland. 

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Strengthening the changemaker community in Switzerland

Learning and  inspiring   each other is of great value to  our  community  of  changemekers .   This year, Ashoka Switzerland organized  apéros, community lunches   and a  weekend retreat   to explore ideas for a fairer and more sustainable Switzerland together .

The  Ashoka Inspirational Talk series  was created at the start of the pandemic to give anyone the  to interact with, and be inspired by those who are tackling long-standing injustices and are working for a fairer world.     In 2021,  we   had  the  pleasure  to exchange  with   three   indredible  Ashoka  Fellows :  Karen Tse  and  Alain Werner   fighting  for  human   rights   from  Switzerland   Emilia Roig ,  thought  leader on  intersectional  justice.

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Promoting social innovation & changemaking in Switzerland. 

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Promoting social innovation & changemaking in Switzerland

Major  events   included   the  Swiss Foundations ’  Forum des  F ondations,  the  UN Global Compact Switzerland  and at the  Swiss Social Economy Forum .  Additionally, changemak ing  ideas and system change approaches were  for instance   shared during the  Building Bridges Week , the  Zurich Roundtable der Philanthropie ,  at the  HUS Institute ,  with students at the   u niversit ies  of Lausanne and Fribourg ,  members of the  Zurich International Women Association  ( ZIWA )  and at the  Beisheim  Collab .

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Ashoka Switzerland had the opportunity to  speak  at a  number  of  events   to  raise awareness  on the  potential  of social innovation  to  address  the  most  pressing social and  environmental  challenges of  our  time, and to  encourage  everyone  (e.g.  individuals ,  companies ,  foundations )  to  be  a  changemaker .

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Building the capacity of changemakers across Europe. 

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Building the capacity of changemakers  across Europe

Through our  Europe Fellowship Program ,  Ashoka is creating a unique learning and co-creation space for the region’s leading changemakers. We engage participants in:

Nurturing Co-learning :  Develop the skills, methods and mindsets for impactful change leadership. Empowering the Ecosystem :  Raise awareness for the challenges of social entrepreneurs and place critical issues on the agenda of Europe´s changemaker ecosystem.  Igniting Collective Impact :  Enable spaces for collaboration for Ashoka's community to co-create pan-European initiatives that address our most pressing challenges.

81% worked on improving their impact strategy after participating in modules

Restoring 1 million hectares of land in Europe to increase biodiversity. 

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Restoring 1 million hectares of land in  Europe to increase  biodiversity

Co-created with  20 Ashoka Fellows and partners Mission:   accelerate and scale systemic, community-based solutions to conserve and restore biodiversity .  8 facilitated online workshops   in 2021 to co-create specific actions and solutions +   1 in-person retreat Current co-created project Bioregional Weaving Lab Collective:   Restore 1 million hectares of land and ocean in 10 bioregions , set up 10 bioregional labs to train communities to adapt, replicate and transfer the proven successful innovations.

Moving from a global immediate pandemic response to # buildingforward. 

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Moving from a global immediate pandemic response to # buildingforward

The Changemaker United initiative started as an immediate response of Ashoka in Europe in April 2020 to strengthen social entrepreneurs as pioneers of social change in the pandemic. Today, we look at this global initiative as an immediate answer to the crisis, but also as a  collective platform to drive the societal shifts  and changes we need for a thriving future.  To date, the initiative has supported over  105   leading social entrepreneurs   in Europe, Africa, Latin Amerika and South Asia to accelerate their solutions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of mentors, pro bono experts and partner companies across the world stepped up to dedicate their resources, time, and knowledge to help them scale their impact.         34+  countries        450+  million people reached        231  pro-bono experts  supporting         Ashoka Fellows       67  mentors ​

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83%  received valuable advice and support from experts

83%  are better positioned to address challenges of their target group caused by Covid-19

6 7 %  were more motivated to work on Covid-19 solutions

Areas in which Ashoka Fellows felt most supported in Europe:

Assessing Ashoka’s impact on Fellows – The results of a global study. 

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Assessing Ashoka’s impact on Fellows – The results of a global study

82%  of Fellows have seen their  idea replicated 72%  of Fellows have  changed policy  at the national/international level 90%  of Fellows  still pursue the idea  they were selected for  90%  of Fellows  feel connected to the Ashoka community

Ashoka Fellows are changing the world in big, pattern-changing ways. They are guided along the way by Ashoka. Every three years, Ashoka undertakes a  multi-method survey  managed by an independent university. This study is designed to understand the Fellows’—and their organization’s—impact, as well as the role Ashoka has had in accelerating their progress.

Series 1 Believe Ashoka's Fellow selection process helped strengthen their idea Believe Ashoka helped increase their impact Believe Ashoka helped them grasp systems change 0.92 0.85 0.82 Series 2 Believe Ashoka's Fellow selection process helped strengthen their idea Believe Ashoka helped increase their impact Believe Ashoka helped them grasp systems change 0.8 0.15 0.18 Series 3 Believe Ashoka's Fellow selection process helped strengthen their idea Believe Ashoka helped increase their impact Believe Ashoka helped them grasp systems change 3 0

In 2021,  over  800 Fellows  participated in the study, making it the  world’s largest survey of leading social entrepreneurs.  These are the  new measurements  that document these impacts.

Expenditures of the Ashoka’s Swiss office. ASHOKA. 

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Expenditures of the Ashoka’s Swiss office

FY 21 Budget FY 21 -  Expenses Programs Actual TOTAL BUDGETED EXPENSES  776,333 CHF  1. TRANSVERSAL COSTS  26,580 CHF  2. STAFF-RELATED COSTS  703,668 CHF  3. DIRECT PROGRAM COSTS  46,085 CHF

FY 21 Budget - Revenues Sources of  funding Actual TOTAL BUDGETED REVENUES  756,249 CHF  RESTRICTED FUNDS  65,437 CHF  SECURED UNRESTRICTED FUNDS  645,813 CHF  UNSECURED FUNDS  45,000 CHF

Estimated   Deficit  Fiscal  Year  2021: 20’084.00 CHF

ASHOKA. Thank you !. This is the dawn of the changemaker culture,” says [Salesforce CEO] Rob Acker. “It’s about inspiring action in new ways and new places.” Global non- profit organisation Ashoka, credited with coining the term [changemaker] , defines changemakers as: “agents of change, no matter the size or scope of the change they create, no matter their age, status, wealth, title or authority.”. 

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This   is   the   dawn   of   the   changemaker   culture,”   says   [Salesforce  CEO]  Rob  Acker.  “It’s  about  inspiring  action in  new  ways  and  new  places.”  Global  non-   profit  organisation  Ashoka,  credited  with  coining    the  term  [changemaker] ,  defines  changemakers   as:   “agents   of   change,   no   matter   the   size   or   scope   of  the  change  they  create,  no matter  their  age,   status,   wealth,   title   or   authority.”

“What  makes  Ashoka  unique  is  its willingness  to  step  in  when  the  risks  are  greatest. They seek  to   help  individuals  before  they have  succeeded  –   when   no   one   else   is   ready   to   help   and   when   a   little   help   makes   an   enormous   difference.”

“Forbes  knows  that  the  story  is  change.  No  one   sees  that  more  clearly  than  Ashoka.  It  has  an   extraordinary   ability   both   to   envision   the   big,   new   patterns   and   to   engineer   their   emergence.”

“Being   involved   with   Ashoka   has   set   a   high   bar   for   the   rest   of   philanthropy   […]   because   I   can   see   that   these   are   the   people   who   are   driving   true   change.   […]  Most  important  about  what  Ashoka  is  doing   is  that  they  make  people  believe  that  change  is  possible.   That   belief   can   go   viral.”