Ashoka Fellowship
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
A living stipend for up to three years, set to local cost of living rather than a fixed published figure, plus lifetime membership of the Ashoka Fellow network
Ashoka
private · supranational
Deadline: rolling — Nominations and applications accepted continuously. Selection runs through a multi-stage panel process taking many months.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: social, any
- Stage: seed, growth
Selects individual social entrepreneurs, not organisations. The venture can be for-profit or nonprofit but the idea must be new and systems-changing.
Source. https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/program/ashoka-venture-and-fellowship — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked