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 Sundance Institute, with Skoll Foundation funding, is supporting the creation of a series of documentary films on the work of leading social entrepreneurs around the world.  One of these films, Easy Like Water, focuses on social entrepreneur Muhammad Rezwan, an architect who pioneered the use of floating schools and libraries in Bangladesh where climate [...]

Search for Common Ground, co-founded by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs John Marks and Susan Collin Marks, is one of the organizations the Sundance Institute is working with under its Stories of Change documentary initiative.  In its current newsletter, Search for Common ground outlines the project:
“The Sundance Institute and the Skoll Foundation have given a grant [...]

We had a nice treat at the Foundation yesterday, with a visit from Ken Brecher and Cara Mertes of the Sundance Institute.  Ken is the executive director of the Instute, while Cara runs the documentary program.  Both have been closely involved in forging the the Skoll-Sundance partnership to promote documentary filmmaking focusing on social entrepreneurship.  [...]