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. For Ashoka, a strategic partner:

• is a global organization, committed to a long-term partnership and systemic social change
• works to develop common goals and create profound social impact
• recognizes the benefits for both the partners and their constituents
• is equally involved in driving the partnership

Ashoka’s global corporate partners are:

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 five countries. McKinsey consultants provide pro bono management services to Ashoka and Ashoka Fellows, strengthening institutional capacity and training social entrepreneurs to develop business plans, make effective presentations, and market their work. Ashoka in turn creates opportunities for transformative experiences and impact to McKinsey and its clients. In 1999, Ashoka and McKinsey launched an integrated Business Plan Competition in Latin America, which has involved 1600 citizen sector organizations and over 150 McKinsey consultants to date.

Hill & Knowlton

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.

Latham & Watkins

With more than 2,100 attorneys in 26 offices around the world, Latham & Watkins provides pro bono legal assistance to Ashoka and Ashoka Fellows globally on a full range of matters. By providing pro bono legal services to our organization and our social entrepreneurs, Latham takes an active role in our communities and makes public interest issues an integral part of their practice of law. The success of our more than 20-year partnership is grounded in each organization's devotion to the collaborative process, which reaches across continents and draws upon an abiding commitment to promote the culture of pro bono globally, working towards a world in which all individuals and communities may access legal recourse, civil rights and equal protection under the law.