Skip to content
Home
Aspire
MENU
  • Home
  • About
    • What is ASPIRe?
    • Our Pillars
    • Our Story
    • Meet the team
    • ASPIRe Newsletter
    • Join us
  • Knowledge
    • Changemaking Networks Book
    • Leveraging Platforms for the Good of All
    • ASPIRe Fieldbook
    • FOSS Handbook
    • Blog
  • Our network
    • Fellows
    • Mission Allies
    • Our Advisors
    • Our Partners
    • OASIS
  • Contact

Changemaking Networks Book

In the first network effects playbook for social entrepreneurs, Ashoka Board Member, Sushmita Ghosh, presents the five core principles and accompanying strategies for harnessing changemaking network effects. Sushmita distilled these conclusions from extensive interviews with Ashoka Fellows who have pioneered global Changemaking Networks. These networks have successfully orchestrated the coming together of several systems, their players, and concerned citizens to serve positive social change goals—such as “Zero Homelessness,” “Health Care Without Harm,” and “Holding Power to Account”—harnessing changemaking network effects.
 
Ashoka is delighted to share a must-read for every social sector organisation, company, funding agency, student, or concerned citizen who cares about a new way of organizing mass changemaking to outsmart and outpace the world’s biggest problems.

Exploring and designing strategies to activate changemaking network effects, so many more people participate and contribute to your vision to reach exponential impact, is one of the three pillars of ASPIRe, along with platform thinking and open-source technology.    

ASPIRe team members Maria Zapata and Ira Snissar have been working closely with Sushmita over the past two years to co-power the book, and in this process, ASPIRe has been a very important source of learnings, insights and inspiration for all of them. 

Written for action-takers, it leaves every reader with a clear sense of how to get started on building Changemaking Networks. Today.

CHECK IT OUT

Leveraging Platforms
for the Good of All

We conducted research on 14 cutting edge platforms for the good of all led by Ashoka Fellows around the world in key sectors, such as education, health and finance. After a thorough research of their models and a series of in-depth interviews with these Fellows, the paper "Leveraging platforms for the good of all" unveils learnings and patterns that are summarized in nine key design principles that define how platforms for good behave.

It is important to keep in mind that a platform is an entire approach and isn´t just a mobile app or a website; it is a holistic model that creates impact by facilitating exchanges of value between two or more interdependent groups.

DOWNLOAD REPORT

 

ASPIRE FIELDBOOK

The ASPIRe Fieldbook is a guide to leveraging platforms for impact at scale. It has been written for social innovators interested in exploring how to build platforms for system change.  

We have seen that when designed and governed deliberately for ‘the good of all,’ platforms hold a powerful promise for activating agency on a large scale and advancing an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world: one 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 self-identify as a driver of change. 

 

DOWNLOAD THE FIELDBOOK

 

FOSS HANDBOOK

Explore the FOSS Handbook, a valuable resource that features a curated collection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solutions for social sector. Originally created by the collaborative efforts of the ASPIRe team and its partners for the OASIS Summit in Bangalore on September 14th, 2023, this handbook will be useful for non-profits seeking user-friendly, easily deployable tools.

 

 

DOWNLOAD

BLOG

Machete use, Paso Pacifico

Regenerating forests with machetes and tech to fight climate change at scale

Deforestation, climate change, and the migrating effect of young generations from rural to metropolitan areas are among the most threatening factors for the biodiversity and livelihood of the rural...
Video Volunteers

The rise of citizen video journalism as a tool to meet SDGs and enable citizen participation in creating and using data

Issues affecting rural areas in India, where 70% of the population of the country live, are hardly ever reported on mainstream media, a virtual “invisibility” that motivated Jessica Mayberry to set up...
TrustCircle

TrustCircle, the AI-based self-awareness and mental health prevention platform set to reach 10% of the world population by 2040  

When the world is failing to address growing mental health problems, hope lightens up as an initiative, with a successful track record in India, the United States, Malaysia, and Africa, and the...

Contact

Ashoka India
54, 1st Cross Road
1st Stage, Domlur
Bengaluru 560071
Karnataka
India

Policies

  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

Ashoka® a trademark of Ashoka

Stay Connected

We'd love to stay in touch! Sign up below to receive updates on Ashoka's work.
By submitting this form, you acknowledge that your Personal Data will be processed outside the EEA as described in the Privacy Policy