Skoll Foundation Program Office Kimberly Dasher Tripp and Teach for America-Bay Area Managing Director Chantal Laurie Below, co-author a piece in the Fall 2010 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “Freeing the Social Entreprenuer”. It’s a roadmap for social entrepreneurs when they are building their leadership teams at that critical juncture between running a startup [...]

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 family will be well represented at the Social Capital Markets 2009 conference in San Francisco next week.  Dan Crisafulli, who heads up ecosystem investments and partnerships at the Skoll Foundation, will be speaking on a panel on forecasting markets, essentially blue-sky thinking about the future of social capital markets - trends to watch [...]

Yesterday was day one of the Social Capital Markets conference in San Francisco - SOCAP ‘08.  They were anticipating around 300 attendees and, instead, got double that.  While the number made for some tight sessions, it’s a powerful sign of interest in the space.  The subtitle of the conference gives the basic focus:  “the intersection [...]