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Leading Ashoka Fellows in the Arab World Ashoka’s Added Value We use a rigourous five-step search and selection process to invest in the most qualified & innovative social changemakers. This includes a rigorous scan of a candidate’s work field to ensure he/she offers the best possible solution, one that is scalable and replicable. M’hammed Abbed Andaloussi is modernizing the education system in Morocco by linking businesses to schools both as financial sponsors and as advisors on school management, services, and market-relevant education, teaching students to see the connection between continued education and professional success. Magdy Aziz promotes gender-equality in Egyptian society by teaching kids about their rights and empowering them to exercise them. Through various community projects, including sports competitions - something that countless of girls are still excluded from - Magdy is fostering a more gender-egalitarian society. Selim Mawad is empowering Lebanon’s youth by educating them about transparency, anti-corruption, and the rule of law. Selim employs a range of activities to engage youth and encourage dialogue and respect for diversity in a pluralist society. Through his organization, Selim aims to link and expand a network of young leaders for change throughout the Arab world. Impact of our Fellows Ashoka Fellows operate in diverse fields and with a broad spectrum of goals. To monitor the progress of its Fellows, Ashoka conducts a study every five years to determine the success of Fellows’ work. Ashoka Arab Fellows have already made remarkable achievements: 13 Fellows have affected government polices with their work In average each Fellow has positively affected the lives of 10,855 people Growth in the budgets of our Fellows’ organizations ranges from 5,000% to 100,000% Invest in Social Change As the Arab World’s population rapidly grows, wide disparities in economic and social development within its societies will require new strategies for systemic change. As Ashoka expands the idea of social entrepreneurship in the Arab world, we ask for your support in this cause so that together we can ensure social and economic empowerment and impact across the Arab world. “The engaged global community that Ashoka has fostered helps each one of them to have more impact than would have been possible individually” - Pierre Omidyar, E-bay Founder and Ashoka Investor You can be a part of social transformation in the Arab World Ashoka has more than 27 years of experience selecting the leading social entrepreneurs. A diverse group of partners including foundations, national and international corporations and business leaders supports Ashoka. expand their program and activities. >> tap into a network of like-minded social entrepreneurs to share best practices. >> become more efficient and have greater impact, as we cultivate their management and leadership skills and help them refine their business planning. >> Once elected as Ashoka Fellows, we enable these Arab innovators to: You will receive We’ll accomplish together Invest $100,000 - $ 1 mln The benefits below plus: A personal engagement strategy for you or our organization with Ashoka staff, partners and Fellows Invest $50,000 - $ 99,000 The benefits below plus: • Opportunity to engage with and mentor Fellows • Invitation to participate in annual Arab World fund investors meeting • Opportunity to consult with Ashoka’s Regional Director as requested Invest $5,000 - $49,000 • Annual report on social entrepreneurship in Arab World • Invitation to Fellows meetings at the Regional Office • Invitations to participate in Ashoka’s site visits to Fellow projects • Opportunity to nominate social entrepreneurs for Ashoka Fellowship Elect 13 new Fellows with 3 year stipends. Launch our Youth Venture program across the Arab world. Launch Women’s Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship in the region. Elect 8 New Fellows Induction and Fellow Collaboration + Ashoka Fellow Collaboration Average half-annual stipend for 1 Fellow Funds 1 year stipend cost 1 Fellow + Induction and Orientation Funds 2 year stipend cost for 1 new Fellow Average 3 year stipend for 1 Fellow, search and selection costs, one ambassador training session $5,000 $10,000 $30,000 $50,000 $100,000 $500,000 $1 million To safeguard the impact of our program, we save the right to ‘de-fellow’ at any point.
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We use a rigourous five-step search and selection process to invest in the most qualified & innovative social changemakers. This includes a rigorous scan of a candidate’s work field to ensure he/she offers the best possible solution, one that is scalable and replicable.
M’hammed Abbed Andaloussi is modernizing the education system in Morocco by linking businesses to schools both as financial sponsors and as advisors on school management, services, and market-relevant education, teaching students to see the connection between continued education and professional success.
Magdy Aziz promotes gender-equality in Egyptian society by teaching kids about their rights and empowering them to exercise them. Through various community projects, including sports competitions - something that countless of girls are still excluded from - Magdy is fostering a more gender-egalitarian society.
Selim Mawad is empowering Lebanon’s youth by educating them about transparency, anti-corruption, and the rule of law. Selim employs a range of activities to engage youth and encourage dialogue and respect for diversity in a pluralist society. Through his organization, Selim aims to link and expand a network of young leaders for change throughout the Arab world.
Impact of our FellowsAshoka Fellows operate in diverse fields and with a broad spectrum of goals. To monitor the progress of its Fellows, Ashoka conducts a study every five years to determine the success of Fellows’ work. Ashoka Arab Fellows have already made remarkable achievements:
13 Fellows have affected government polices with their workIn average each Fellow has positively affected the lives of 10,855 peopleGrowth in the budgets of our Fellows’ organizations ranges from 5,000% to 100,000%
Invest in Social Change
As the Arab World’s population rapidly grows, wide disparities in economic and social development within its societies will require new strategies for systemic change. As Ashoka expands the idea of social entrepreneurship
in the Arab world, we ask for your support in this cause so that together we can ensure social and economic
empowerment and impact across the Arab world.
“The engaged global community that Ashoka has fostered helps each one of them to have more impact than would have been possible individually”
- Pierre Omidyar, E-bay Founder and Ashoka InvestorYou can be a part of social transformation in the Arab World
Ashoka has more than 27 years of experience selecting the leading social entrepreneurs.
A diverse group of partners including foundations, national and international corporations and business leaders supports Ashoka.
expand their program and activities.>>tap into a network of like-minded social entrepreneurs to share best practices.
>>
become more efficient and have greater impact, as we cultivate their management and leadership skills and help them refine their business planning.
>>
Once elected as Ashoka Fellows, we enable these Arab innovators to:
You will receiveWe’ll accomplish together
Invest $100,000 - $ 1 mlnThe benefits below plus:A personal engagement strategy for you or our organization with Ashoka staff, partners and Fellows
Invest $50,000 - $ 99,000The benefits below plus:• Opportunity to engage with and mentor Fellows• Invitation to participate in annual Arab World fund investors meeting• Opportunity to consult with Ashoka’s Regional Director as requested
Invest $5,000 - $49,000• Annual report on social entrepreneurship in Arab World• Invitation to Fellows meetings at the Regional Office• Invitations to participate in Ashoka’s site visits to Fellow projects• Opportunity to nominate social entrepreneurs for Ashoka Fellowship
Elect 13 new Fellows with 3 year stipends. Launch our Youth Venture program across the Arab world. Launch Women’s Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship in the region.
Elect 8 New Fellows
Induction and Fellow Collaboration+
Ashoka Fellow Collaboration
Average half-annual stipend for 1 Fellow
Funds 1 year stipend cost 1 Fellow
+Induction and Orientation
Funds 2 year stipend cost for 1 new Fellow
Average 3 year stipend for 1 Fellow, search and selection costs, one ambassador training session
$5,000
$10,000
$30,000
$50,000
$100,000
$500,000
$1 million
To safeguard the impact of our program, we save the right to ‘de-fellow’ at any point.
Ashoka Arab WorldAshoka is a global non-profit organization established in 1981 by Bill Drayton, a former McKinsey consultant. Like the business sector, we feel that the most effective way to sustainable social change lies with the social sector’s top entrepreneurs - men and women that recognize a social problem and use entrepreneurial principles to create a venture to leverage social change. Today, Ashoka is the largest association of social entrepreneurs in the world, supporting over 2600 visionary social changemakers, elected as Ashoka Fellows, to create maximum impact in their societies.
Ashoka established its Arab World Regional Office in 2003 to seek out and support innovative solutions to address significant, complex challenges in the region. Although social entrepreneurship is a concept that is still very new, Ashoka Arab World has been very effective in spreading this idea and has elected more than 40 Fellows to date.
With some of the world’s highest unemployment, illiteracy, gender discrimination and youth dissatisfaction rates, social entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly important in improving social conditions in the region and Ashoka stands at the cutting edge, driving that change with over 27 years of experience in searching for and selecting social entrepreneurs.
Investing in social entrepreneursPromoting sustainable social changePositively impacting thousands of lives
“Social entrepreneurship can be as infectious and impactful to the world’s most daunting social issues in the next few years as IT and Internet entrepreneurship have been the world’s economy in the past decades.”
Venture Capitalist, Belgium
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Why Social Entrepreneurship, and why Now?Despite the large sums of money that have been invested in development by governments, civil society and philanthropists in recent history, traditional charity efforts and project-based development initiatives have not created lasting impact on our era’s most daunting challenges. In a time of economic disarray, local-led cutting-edge initiatives have risen to the fore as the most sensible method to ensure lasting patterns of social change.
Social entrepreneurs hold the key to creating effective wide-scale impact. Why? They are committed individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems, using entrepreneurial principles to leverage social change. Social entrepreneurs are leaders in their field, think outside the box, act as role-models for the surrounding community and ultimately inspire others to adopt and spread their innovations.
“The core psychology of a social entrepreneur is someone who cannot come to rest, in a very deep sense, until he or she has changed the pattern in an area of social concern all across society.”Bill Drayton, Ashoka Founder
