Ashoka (formerly branded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public) is an American-based nonprofit organization that promotes social entrepreneurship by connecting and supporting individual social entrepreneurs. Their stated mission is "the creation of an association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system-changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems—and fostering a global culture of everyone being a changemaker for the good of all". Growing up, Bill Drayton was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and the Civil Rights Movement. Drayton wanted to mitigate income inequality through social entrepreneurship. Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980. More information...
According to PR-model, ashoka.org is ranked 40,237th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 27,562nd in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before transcript-verlag.de and after dawnnews.tv in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.