The third episode of the BBC series on social entrepreneurs, Alvin’s Guide to Good Business, is now available online.  It features Marine Stewardship Council, led by 2007 Skoll social entrepreneur Rupert Howes.  For those with access, the show will air on BBC World News over the next week.  You can see the schedule here.
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We have just put up on our site a description of our capital model.  It talks about how we deploy our capital via grants, program-related investments, and our endowment to support positive social change.  We look at it as a continuum of different financial tools that are working in the same direction.  You can read [...]

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 [...]

Social Edge, the community site of the Skoll Foundation, has just introduced the Social Entrepreneur Search Widget, an application programming interface tool to allow folks to search for social entrepreneurs within the networks of a series of leading social entrepreneurial organizations - including Civic Ventures, Draper Richards Foundation, PopTech, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, [...]

The second in an 8-episode series on social entrepreneurs on BBC Worlds News is now available online.  For those of you who get BBC World News, it will be broadcast four times over the next week.  Called Alvin’s Guide to Good Business, the series is led by financial expert Alvin Hall, who brings his experience of 25 [...]

Roshaneh Zafar, a 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur and the founder of the Kashf Foundation, provides a great overview of the microfinance market in Pakistan in this video interview.  It includes a discussion of the factors behind Kashf’s decision to become a deposit taking institution.  It’s a really interesting 7 minute film.  Have a look.

The gathering of social entrepreneurs at the Indian Business School in the heart of HITECH city in Hyderabad – in some ways represents the physical nexus of technology, business and changemakers. It has been a day filled with rich conversations – where in each session the wealth of knowledge was beyond the panelists, as the [...]

The first in an 8-episode series on social entrepreneurs on BBC Worlds News is now available online.  For those of you who get BBC World News, it will be broadcast four times over the next week (schedule here).  Called Alvin’s Guide to Good Business, the series is led by financial expert Alvin Hall, who brings [...]

BBC World News will be launching this weekend an 8-part series on social entrepreneurs around the globe.  Alvin’s Guide to Good Business will follow financial expert Alvin Hall as he visits a different social entrepreneur each week.  He’ll look at business models, impact, and the challenges of scaling.  Featured organizations include Riders for Health, [...]

I attended the Global Zero Summit in Paris this week, representing Larry Brilliant of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, which is a financial supporter of Ploughshares, an organization that supports peace and security worldwide.  Global Zero is pushing for the elimination of all nuclear weapons based on a multi-stage, multi-year plan that all the world’s [...]