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 focus on initially:  climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict.  The Skoll Global Threat Fund’s first grants are to Ploughshares, to promote nuclear weapons elimination, and J Street, to encourage moderate voices in support of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Larry’s first executive hire is Eric Nonacs as VP, Alliances and Partnerships, who arrives with a strong background working on social change issues with, among others, the Clinton Foundation.