Ashoka discovers and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, learns from their innovations’ patterns, and mobilizes a global community to embrace these new frameworks in order to create a society where “everyone is a changemaker.” The MMH accelerator is a structured business growth program with two phases that is currently in its fourth year. The “Pilot Phase,” which lasts 12 months, entails co-creation and pilot implementation of a high-impact strategic project or effort to help participating businesses develop, impact, and maintain themselves. It comes with a EUR50,000 (US$56,000) financial support. Phase two, called the “Scale-up Phase,” lasts 12 months and follows the pilot phase’s successful completion. Businesses that advance to the scale-up phase receive additional funding of EUR100,000 (US$113,000) to EUR120,000 (US4136,000). Co-creation is a major component of both phases of the initiative, involving hand-in-hand collaboration between social entrepreneurs and Boehringer Ingelheim workers who volunteer their time and expertise to the pilot and scale-up projects. On the 31st of January, applications will close.
