Our Partners
Our Partners “Each day, our global partnership with Ashoka expands in our mutual commitment to advancing the important causes of society.”
- Paul Taaffe, Chairman and CEO, Hill & Knowlton, Inc.
Ashoka has forged strategic partnerships with leading global companies, to provide management, communications, finance, and other expertise to the citizen sector. In turn, Ashoka and its vast network share knowledge and opportunities with business partners, expanding the horizons of these pioneering businesses and the people who work for them.
Together, our strategic partners support Ashoka’s social entrepreneurs in tens of countries, delivering millions of dollars of consulting services each year. But the partnerships’ true value is in enabling the flow of talent and resources between business and citizen sectors, accelerating innovation so that both sectors can solve their most pressing problems.
Ashoka’s global strategic partners are McKinsey & Company, Hill & Knowlton and the International Senior Lawyer’s Project (ISLP). Ashoka also has relationships with Latham & Watkins and Ernst & Young.
McKinsey & Company
Ashoka and McKinsey & Company, the world’s leading management consulting firm, created the first Center for Social Entrepreneurship together in 1996, based in Brazil. The two organizations now share offices and expertise in several countries. McKinsey consultants provide pro bono management services to Ashoka Fellows, strengthening institutional capacity and training social entrepreneurs to write business plans, make effective presentations, and market their work. Ashoka in turn creates opportunities for transformative experiences and impact to McKinsey and its clients. This year, Ashoka and McKinsey launched an integrated Business Plan Competition in 7 Latin American countries, involving over 150 McKinsey consultants and drawing over 1600 applications from citizen organizations.
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One of the world’s leading public relations firms, Hill & Knowlton provides pro bono marketing and communications services to Ashoka and Ashoka Fellows. This global partnership is critical to advancing the profession of social entrepreneurship by providing strategic communications counsel, media and presentation training and other consulting services – including serving as organizational board members for Ashoka Fellows. To date, 25 offices on 5 continents have contributed to this rewarding effort. Hill & Knowlton is enabling social entrepreneurs to gain greater support for their ideas and to share best practices around the world.