A select group of 24 Jewish and Muslim social entrepreneurs will work together on finding innovative solutions to socio-economic challenges like healthcare, gender inequality and education disparities, during a two-week program July 5 through 16 at Columbia Business School in New York. The social entrepreneurs are participating in the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship & Cross Cultural [...]

The Skoll Foundation’s funding of stories of social entrepreneurship or those relevant to social entrepreneurs, on the PBS program FRONTLINE/World, continues tonight, June 29th, with a story from Haiti regarding post-disaster food aid. FRONTLINE/World and NPR’s Planet Money reporter Adam Davidson explore the issue in “Haiti: The Aid Dilemma,” the latest in its series of economic reports from [...]

2010 Skoll social entreprenuer Scott Gilmore founded Peace Divided Trust on the simple notion that local companies and vendors are generally the most efficient and cost effective source for goods and services in difficult post conflict environments…you just need to find them. Once you do, however, the benefit to the local economy is significant. Since beginning work [...]

The Skoll World Forum ended on Friday, but, due to the airspace shutdown in Europe, it’s turned into a very long Forum experience for all.  The majority of Forum participants from outside the UK face daunting challenges getting home, with people either shooting for airports in the South of Europe or deciding to hold tight [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME), run by 2009 Skoll social entrepreneurs Munqeth Mehyar (Jordan), Gidon Bromberg (Israel) and Nader Khateeb (Palestine), is featured in the April edition of National Geographic in a story on the Jordan River.  The April edition, in fact, is a special issue focused on water.  The piece on the [...]

Roots of Peace, founded by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur Heidi Kuhn, recently landed a significant contract to expand its work in supporting agricultural development in Afghanistan.  Roots of Peace - with its “mines to vines” approach - has been awarded a $30 million USAID contract, reportedly the largest ever for a nonprofit for work [...]

The fourth episode of the BBC World News series on social entrepreneurs features the heroic rats of Apopo, founded by 2009 Skoll social entrepreneur Bart Weetjens.  These HeroRats are trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis using their sense of smell.  The 8-part series, called Alvin’s Guide to Good Business, is looking at social entrepreneurs doing [...]

Search for Common Ground, led by co-founders and 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs John and Susan Collins Marks, explores innovative ways to use media to bridge divides.  They’ve hit on a winning formula leveraging the popularity of soccer in Africa.  “The Team” brings together soccer players from different tribes to tackle historic animosities.  Search for Common [...]