The document outlines Ashoka Canada's Learning Networks initiative to support educators in creating campus cultures that foster social innovation and changemaking among students. The initiative includes hosting Changemaker Showcases to feature social innovators, supporting a Changemaker Challenge fund for student-led projects, and helping schools systematize social entrepreneurship education through a Changemaker Campus program. The goal is to make changemaking education a standard part of many Canadian schools and multiply ongoing student social innovation projects over the next five years.

1. Learning Networks
Building Campus Cultures for Changemaking

2. How is the
world different
because you
are here?
~ Bill Drayton

3. What if higher education had a
higher purpose than jobs and careers?
What if it prepared you to
ask and answer
the fundamental life question...

4. “How is the world different
because I am here?”

5. Through our Learning Networks initative, we are
supporting educators to create campus cultures
that foster changemaking and social innovation...
World-class education should
help students change the world.

6. Learning Networks
1. Showcase social
innovation locally
and nationally
2. Support student-
led changemaking
3. Systematize social
entrepreneurship
education
CHANGEMAKER
SHOWCASE
CHANGEMAKER
CHALLENGE

7. CHANGEMAKER SHOWCASE
We help curate campus events that
feature social innovators, promote
networking, and encourage peer
learning. We record talks by
inspirational changemakers and share
them across Ashoka’s global network.
2013 2014 2015
5 showcases 10 showcases 15 showcases

8. CHANGEMAKER CHALLENGE
We inspire and support youth-led
projects that create change by
launching the first fund in Canada to
match crowdfunding by students. We
leverage peer networks, not
competition, to drive innovation.
2013 2014 2015
15 projects 30 projects 60 projects

9. CHANGEMAKER CAMPUS
We help schools systematize social entrepreneurship
education and embed changemaking across disciplines.
We connect them to a global network of changemaker
schools to help them share best practices.
2013 2014 2015
1 campus 3 campuses 5 campuses

10. Five Year Outcomes
Changemaking
education is
systematized by
many schools
across Canada.
Ongoing celebration
and effective sharing
of changemaking
initiatives by
students.
Changemaking
projects multiply,
backed by greater
financial resources.

11. Charles Tsai
Program Director Richard Cerezo
Storyteller
Jenn McRae
Project Leader
Learning Networks Team

13. Ashoka Canada
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