A major national conference on the future of philanthropy on the west coast?  Yes, Jim Ferris and his team at USC’s Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy brought together leaders in the field for note comparing, networking, and strategizing on January 27th and 28th.
The sun was shining brightly on campus, [...]

Ceres, led by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur Mindy Lubber, is celebrating an important move by the SEC on climate risk - a move Ceres has been fighting for for a number of years.  The SEC put out yesterday “new interpretive guidance that clarifies what publicly-traded companies need to disclose to investors in terms of climate-related [...]

The Saïd Business School at Oxford, home of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, moved up a couple of slots in the FT’s 2010 Global MBA rankings.  Its ranking at number 16 worldwide is a good showing for the still young business school.  The report includes a series of predictions for 2010 for business education.  [...]

The debut of To Catch A Dollar, a story about Grameen America and the first film from the Skoll-Sundance Stories of Change Partnership, has generated some good media buzz.  The Huffington Post has two columns on the film:  one here and the other here.  The press conference about the film also garnered a nice comment [...]

An on-the-ground report from Skoll CEO Sally Osberg and Sandy Herz, who oversees the Skoll Foundation’s film and broadcast partnerships:
Greetings from snowy Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival is off to an inspiring start! Despite competition from a broad array of powerful and engaging films, Saturday’s panel discussion, “Can’t Be Done!”, drew a [...]

The Skoll Global Threats Fund, created by Jeff Skoll last year and led by Larry Brilliant, announced today its first grants and latest executive hire, as well as launched a new website.  The site gives a good overview of  the Skoll Global Threat Fund’s mission and its approach on the five global threats it will [...]

Arzu Studio Hope, founded by 2008 Skoll social entrepreneur Connie Duckworth, is leveraging its program to help another Skoll social entrepreneur, Paul Farmer, with his work with Partners in Health in Haiti. Arzu, which helps break the cycle of poverty in Afghanistan through its program to link Afghan rug sales in the developed world [...]

The Skoll Foundation will be visible as the Sundance Film Festival in a big way this year.  First and foremost, a Skoll supported film - the first under our Stories of Change partnership with the Sundance Institute - will premier at the festival. To Catch A Dollar tells the story of Muhammad Yunus, [...]

Several Skoll social entrepreneurs have active programs in Haiti and may be facing urgent funding needs following yesterday’s earthquake.  Partners in Health, water.org and Peace Dividend Trust work, respectively, on health care, water and sanitation, and peace and humanitarian programs.  We encourage you to visit these organizations websites in the coming days as the extent [...]

Three Skoll award recipients - Camfed, Half the Sky and Kiva - are among 100 organizations in the final round of the Chase Community Giving challenge.  Chase Community Giving, hosted on Facebook, is an initiative designed to harness social media for fundraising, as well as to generate exposure for social change organizations.  Each of the [...]