What we do

Hello Accelerator is an Ashoka global platform accelerating impact through collaboration to design innovative solutions with and for people on the move.

Changemakers are stepping up, bringing new solutions, building bridges between communities and harvesting learnings that benefit societies in urgent need of innovative solutions to complex problems. To scale their impact, social entrepreneurs and migrant leaders need support and seek collaborations with multiple stakeholders in their ecosystems, such as businesses, researchers and policy makers at municipal, national and regional levels.

This collective journey will combine in-person gatherings, online sessions, and fields trips across Europe and Latin America. By placing social entrepreneurs at the helm of the accelerator and focusing on action oriented steps, it aims to build long-term collaboration through concrete achievements participants develop.

Migration requires collective action

We see migration as changemaking in action, where migrants are recognized as changemakers, innovative solutions are scaled, and collaborative frameworks emerge to transform the entire system. Thus, we base our work, that is the co-creation of a connected and resilient workforce and entrepreneurial ecosystem for migrants, on these key principles:

To break the silo approach, key players from multiple stakeholder groups must be identified and enabled to come together to analyze and transform the ecosystem they are in, as they continue to improve and scale the individual solutions they lead.
To unlock the high creativity and effectiveness, it is key to place systemic social entrepreneurs and innovators at the center, who provide energy and innovative thinking to the entire group.
To enable collaboration based on action with players that often don’t work together, a proven accelerator approach with systems-change tools and frameworks that guide participants through a process aimed at action, needs to be applied.
To steadily improve and to adjust to the given situation, it is essential to measure the impact being created throughout this process.