Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 2,200 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 70 countries.

Ashoka operates in Central and Eastern Europe since 1994/5. To date, 141 Ashoka Fellows were elected in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Latvia.