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Dear Skoll Newsletter Subscriber, We've posted the following stories to the Skoll Foundation Blog over the last two weeks: Social Edge Chief Keynoting Social Media Conference
Victor D'Allant, the executive director of Social Edge, will be keynoting Willamette University's Social Media Conference November 6. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, check out the conference. Details here. Nobel Prize Musings Include Skoll Social Entrepreneurs
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama has led to a lot of press speculation about other candidates who might have been deserving. Several Skoll social entrepreneurs factored into this coverage. Fast Company recommended Barefoot College and the PeaceWorks Foundation's OneVoice Movement as organizations to which President Obama could donate his award money. Nick Kristof of the New York Times suggested Paul Farmer, a 2008 Skoll social entrepreneur and co-founder of Partners in Health, as a deserving candidate. Wine, Tweets and Books
Room to Read, founded by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur John Wood, has signed a unique deal with Twitter, the micro-blogging platform that has become a social media phenomenon. From the press release: For the first time ever, Twitter has decided to formally partner with a charity as part of a Corporate Social Innovation initiative - and they have chosen Room to Read, a San Francisco-based non-profit which aims to empower millions of children in the developing world through education. There's a video talking about the partnership here. Ceres Leads Business Group to DC to Lobby on Climate Change
Mindy Lubber, the leader of Ceres and a 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur, reports on a Ceres-led visit last week of business leaders to Washington, DC, to promote climate change legislation: Ceres and the Clean Economy Network, spearheading a collaboration named We Can Lead, pulled off a hugely successful business outreach event last week in Washington, DC that has re-energized political support for strong climate and energy action from Congress in 2009. More than 150 businesses from 37 states convened on the nation's capital for a 24-hour outreach sweep that included 51 meetings with U.S. Senate offices, briefings and receptions with top Obama Cabinet members, and multiple media events at the White House, the Capitol Building and numerous TV and radio studios. You can read some of the press coverage here and here. Water.org Hitting on All Cylinders
Water.org, co-founded earlier this year by 2009 Skoll social entrepreneur Gary White and Matt Damon, is hitting on all cylinders. It recently announced it has created an innovative way to use the Twitter developers' platform to spread the word about water issues. Matt Damon had a piece in PARADE Magazine talking about the importance of giving and detailing how he got interested in water issues. Water.org was also featured on Facebook's Non-Profits page. Finally, Water.org launched a campaign focusing on water as a women's issue, highlighting how lack of access to clean water has a disproportionate impact on women and girls in the developing world. Camfed and Kiva In America𠏋 Giving Challenge
Camfed, founded by 2005 Skoll social entrepreneur Ann Cotton, and Kiva, run by Skoll social entrepreneurs Matt Flannery and Premal Shah, are among 50 organizations competing in America's Giving Challenge. This is an initiative by Facebook's Causes, PARADE Magazine and the Case Foundation. Organizations compete for a $50,000 prize, which will be awarded to the group having the most people donating by November 6, 2009. "Left Coast Evaluators" meet to share/learn from each other
The Skoll Foundation's Lakshmi Karan blogs about a recent event she attended focused on best practices on dissemination of evaluation results. It was a good opportunity to reflect on what works and the challenges and resources that can help foundation's wrestle with some of these questions: Who is the audience? What should be the content? Which medium is most appropriate for whom? What are the approaches to strengthening evaluation practices in foundations? How can we to tap into the evaluation results/learning of other foundations? The event was a great experience in collective learning. "Easy Like Water" Documents Climate Change In Bangladesh
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 change is causing rivers and sea levels to rise. Filmmaker Glenn Baker blogged from Bangladesh during recent filming there. Makes for interesting, and sobering, reading. Check it out here.
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