Ashoka is a global organization that supports social entrepreneurs who address urgent social problems like education, the environment, human rights, and health. It selects and finances social entrepreneurs, develops models for collaboration, and builds infrastructures to advance social entrepreneurship. A social entrepreneur addresses crucial social issues, brings radically new solutions to revolutionize sectors, and has entrepreneurial qualities like vision, pragmatism, and determination. Two examples are given of social entrepreneurs from Indonesia who created innovative solutions in waste management and sustainable forestry that improved livelihoods and the environment.

1. Social Entrepreneurship

2. Ashoka
a global association of the
world’s social entrepreneurs
—men and women with system
changing solutions for the world’s most
urgent social problems.
Ashoka selects and supports social entrepreneurs
financially and professionally, develops models for
collaboration, and designs new infrastructures needed to
advance the field of social entrepreneurship and the
citizen sector.

3. Vision:
Everyone A Changemaker™
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4. What is
a Social Entrepreneur
Social Entrepreneur
Addresses the most crucial Brings about a radically new
problems of society: solution with the potential to
education, environment, revolutionize a whole sector
human rights, health
Has the entrepreneurial qualities:
Does not use economic vision, pragmatism,
profit as the most significant determination
measure of social impact
High creativity in problem
solving and strategy setting

5.  THE IDEA
 THE PERSON
BASIC  THE INSTITUTION
PRINCIPLES

6.  Social Innova5on
 Social Impact
THE IDEA

7.  Crea5vity
 Entrepreneurial
Skills
THE PERSON
 Ethical Fiber

8.  Generate Resources
 Mobilize Community
 Market Effec5vely
THE  Build Partnerships
INSTITUTION

9. Yuyun Ismawati
Waste management
 Started with hotels in Bali
 Built private company owned by trash handlers,
50 salaried workers, 8 trucks
 50% reduction of waste to landfills
 Separation and re-use of organic materials
 Opened a training center for waste-management
 Replicated in big cities in Java

10. Silverius Oscar Unggul
Eco-friendly timber
 Indonesia’s first community-held
and managed timber concession
 39,000 hectares
 Draws people away from illegal logging
 Integral reforestation: millions of saplings
 Increased local incomes fourfold
 Certified by Smartwood
 South and Central Sulawesi, Papua, Sumatra, Java

11. LIFE CYCLE OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
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12. Youth Venture
Creating a global movement of young
people who are powerful now,
changemakers now, taking initiative
to create social change.
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13. HOW TO START
 What are your interests and passions?
 What are your skills? What are you
good at doing?
 What problems exist in your school or
community?
 What groups of people in your
community need help or support?
 Think creatively about how you can
use your hobbies, skills, interests, and
passions to respond to a need, a
problem, or an opportunity to create
change.
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14. “Social entrepreneurs are not content
just to give a fish, or teach how to fish.
They will not rest until they have
revolutionized the fishing industry.”
— Bill Drayton