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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 [...]

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 [...]

A major national conference on the future of philanthropy on the west coast?  Yes, Jim Ferris and his team at USC’s Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy brought together leaders in the field for note comparing, networking, and strategizing on January 27th and 28th.

The sun was shining brightly on campus, [...]

Ceres, led by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur Mindy Lubber, is celebrating an important move by the SEC on climate risk – a move Ceres has been fighting for for a number of years.  The SEC put out yesterday “new interpretive guidance that clarifies what publicly-traded companies need to disclose to investors in terms of climate-related [...]

The Saïd Business School at Oxford, home of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, moved up a couple of slots in the FT’s 2010 Global MBA rankings.  Its ranking at number 16 worldwide is a good showing for the still young business school.  The report includes a series of predictions for 2010 for business education.  [...]

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 [...]

An on-the-ground report from Skoll CEO Sally Osberg and Sandy Herz, who oversees the Skoll Foundation’s film and broadcast partnerships:

Greetings from snowy Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival is off to an inspiring start! Despite competition from a broad array of powerful and engaging films, Saturday’s panel discussion, “Can’t Be Done!”, drew a [...]