The next goal: chasing the full potential of sport for good – Ashoka

Ashoka is an international citizen-sector organization whose mission is to build an Everyone a Changemaker World™ . An Everyone a Changemaker World™ is one that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and self identify as a driver of change. Ashoka is the world’s leading community of over 3,500 social entrepreneurs. We champion the most important new social change ideas and support the innovators behind them by helping them get started, grow, collaborate and reshape whole systems.

This weekend, Spain’s top soccer official resigned over the non consensual World Cup kiss that ignited Spain’s me too / SeAcabo movement. At the same time, the world just experienced one of the most significant global embraces of women’s sports – the 2023 World Cup, showing us how sport can be a platform for progress.

For a look at what’s next in the world of sports and changemaking, join us on September 13. We’ll hear from Ashoka Fellow and former football/soccer player Kelly Davies, live from the U.K., in conversation with Ashoka’s Ana Sáenz de Miera in Madrid.

The world just experienced one of the most significant global celebration of women’s sports – the 2023 World Cup. Cited as the most internationally inclusive women’s sporting event, breaking viewership and attendance records, it showed us how sport can be a platform for progress. Yet it also revealed how much more is needed to put women on an equal footing to men and address systemic problems in plain view to players and hundreds of millions of fans. For a look at what’s next in the world of sports and changemaking, join us on September 13. We’ll hear from Ashoka Fellow and former football/soccer player Kelly Davies, live from the U.K., in conversation with Ashoka’s Ana Saenz de Miera in Madrid.

This conversation will last 30 minutes. Bring your questions! 

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