Resources

Free Ashoka U Resources

Student Resources

The goal of Changemaking 101: A Student Guide to Social Entrepreneurship is to provide students with a comprehensive introduction social entrepreneurship.This kit is designed to help you get inspired, grow as a leader, and bring the concept of social entrepreneurship to your campus.

The guide includes resources to learn more deeply about this approach to social change, models of social entrepreneurship at work on college campuses that you can replicate, strategies for how to build momentum for social entrepreneurship activities on your campus, tips and tools to be an effective student leader and changemaker in your field of interest, and ideas for starting a social entrepreneurship club, launching a venture, or adding a social entrepreneurship-oriented perspective to an existing club.

Faculty Resources

The Campus Starter Kit is designed to help higher education leaders build hubs of social innovation by tapping into the creativity and ingenuity of the campus community. While every campus is unique in its institutional identity and culture, educational vision, and student body, we hope to provide broadly applicable resources to help foster awareness and support for social entrepreneurship and changemaking.

We also offer two customizable presentations for faculty: Making the Case for Social Entrepreneurship Presentation, designed for staff or faculty to engage their institution in social entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship 101 Presentation for use in class or at events raising awareness around social entrepreneurship on campus and in the community.

Social Change DIY Event

The purpose of the “Imagine What You Can Do” Ashoka U Social Change DIY event is to inspire students on your campus for social entrepreneurship and social innovation, and to explore and practice essential skills for changemaking. This handbook will guide you through successfully organizing your first AshokaU Social ChangeDIY event. We will show you how to inspire students to attend your workshop, give you advertisement tips and tricks, include a prep work timeline, event guidelines that will accompany you as you prepare.

Supplementary materials include:
Social Change DIY: Agenda
Social Change DIY: Presentation
Social Change DIY: Worksheet
Social Change DIY: Poster

Changemaker Maps

Looking for a way to create impact with your chosen field or major? BYU’s Changemaker Maps offer discipline-specific social innovation resources, so that students can find ways to be a changemaker through their major. Use these as templates to create Changemaker Maps for your own institutional context.


Want to know how you can get more involved with Women’s Studies while changing the world and building your career path at the same time? Through Changemaker Maps, you are equipped with the knowledge and connections to engage with social innovation in Women’s Studies.


Ashoka U Products Available for Purchase

Ashoka U Social Entrepreneurship Education Resource Handbook – $75

The 2011 Social Entrepreneurship Education Resource Handbook is for colleges and universities engaged in teaching, research and applied learning in social entrepreneurship. Developed by Ashoka U and Debbi Brock, the fifth edition provides a comprehensive look at social entrepreneurship education. [Read Full Description Here]


Buy the Social Entrepreneurship Education Resource Handbook for $75!

Ashoka U Curriculum Guide – $199

The Ashoka U Curriculum Guide is a resource designed to help improve current courses on social entrepreneurship, develop new ones, and identify how your faculty and university can make its own unique contribution to social entrepreneurship education… [Read Full Description Here]


Purchase your copy of the Curriculum Guide for $199!

Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship DVD Series – $68

Ashoka, in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, created The Social Entrepreneurship Series as a resource to educate a wide audience about social entrepreneurship. Each DVD shares the insights and expertise of some of the world’s most inspiring social entrepreneurs about their area of expertise. [See all DVDs Here]


Get your set of 16 DVDs now!