This is a good example of what a Force for Good company is and how to be one because the organisation focuses on ideas that it believes will trigger nationwide or regional change, and has rigorous selection criteria and process for choosing the people it supports.

Description

Ashoka is an organisation founded in 1980 and now with an annual budget of over $30m.

It supports individual social entrepreneurs. It brings them together to share ideas, best practices and leverage scale. And it helps to build the infrastructure and systems needed to support the citizen sector and social innovation globally.

Ashoka employs around 160 staff in 25 regional offices throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. It has established programs in over 60 countries, supporting the work of over 2000 social entrepreneurs or Ashoka Fellows.

You can find out more information at http://www.ashoka.org/