The Skoll Foundation announced today it is providing emergency grants to three of its social entrepreneurs working in Pakistan, and to two additional partners who also have ongoing programs in the country, many in flood affected areas. The grants will go to support the various emergency relief activities each of the organizations are currently involved in, [...]

2008 Skoll social entrepreneur Mechai Viravaidya, who founded the Population and Community Development Association in Thailand in 1974, has been named as a member to the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention along with 14 other world leaders. This was recently announced at the International AIDS conference in Vienna.
 

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS [...]

Dr. Mitch Besser, mothers2mothers’ Founder and Medical Director, recently attended the Global Health Conference in Washington DC, where he accepted the Global Health Council’s Best Practices Award on behalf of mothers2mothers. Besser, along with Co-Founder and Executive Director Gene Falk, are 2008 Skoll social entrepreneurs. The Council’s annual award is given to individuals dedicated to improving the health of [...]

Sakena Yacoobi, founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) and a 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur, recently received the 2010 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights established to honor the late Jonathan Mann, and to call attention to the vital links between health and human rights.  Despite his untimely death in a 1998 plane crash, [...]

In his column in today’s New York Times, Nicholas Kristof offers up some gift ideas for Father’s Day far from the traditional tie or tool set noting, “This Father’s Day, a rat is truly the best gift you never knew about.” Of course, Nick is referring to APOPO, headed by Skoll social entrepreneur Bart Weetjens, and the opportunity [...]

The Skoll World Forum moved into full speed yesterday, with a set of sessions ranging from conflict and water to the neuroscience of caring and how social entrepreneurs work in disaster zones (and many more).  Paul Hawken, the environmentalist, social entrepreneur and author, gave a really compelling keynote speech about the global movement in support [...]

The Skoll World Forum kicked off yesterday with music from Vusi Mahlasela, words from Jeff Skoll, Lakhdar Brahimi of The Elders, Ann Cotton of Camfed, Paul Farmer of Partners in Health, and more, and some great conversations between delegates at dinners sprinkled around various Oxford Colleges.  It’s a bit of a whirlwind, hard to keep [...]

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is focusing on social entrepreneurs currently on “What Matters,” its online platform for talking about key business issues.  Timed in conjunction with the Skoll World Forum, which McKinsey is supporting this year, the current “What Matters” asks the question, “Can social entrepreneurs create large scale change?”  There are currently five [...]

Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health and a 2008 Skoll social entrepreneur, is interviewed along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others in a FRONTLINE special tonight on Haiti.  Partners in Health has leveraged its significant on-the-ground medical staff, facilities and experience to provide critical medical care in the wake of the earthquake.  [...]

Partners in Health, co-founded by 2008 Skoll social entrepreneur Paul Farmer, is featured in this week’s episode of “Alvin’s Guide to Good Business,” an 8- week series on social entrepreneurs on BBC World News.  Partners in Health pioneered a model of community-based care used successfully, among other things, to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and [...]