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 [...]

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, [...]

Hi, I’m Sandy Herz and I manage the Skoll Foundation’s film and broadcast partnerships. Last weekend I had the privilege of attending the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Summit as part of our work to engage more people with the stories and potential impact of social entrepreneurs. Nothing is more inspirational than a weekend in the [...]

Skoll CEO Sally Osberg had the good fortune last night to be the other party in a “conversation with Robert Redford” at the Ceres 2009 Conference, which is, among other things, a celebration of Ceres’ 20th birthday.  Mindy Lubber, a 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur and president of Ceres, gave both thanks and inspiration to aim [...]

The Sundance Institute announced at the Sundance Film Festival this week the initial five grants under its “Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus throught Documentary” initiative.  This is part of the $3 million, three-year partnership between the Skoll Foundation and the Sundance Institute launched in 2007. Per the announcement, “The development and production grant [...]