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Grants

Ashoka Fellowship

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

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

Funder

Ashoka

private · supranational

Deadline: Open all year — Nominations and applications accepted continuously. Selection runs through a multi-stage panel process taking many months.

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Selects individual social entrepreneurs, not organisations. The venture can be for-profit or nonprofit but the idea must be new and systems-changing.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/program/ashoka-venture-and-fellowship · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.ashoka.org

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