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Dear Skoll Newsletter Subscriber, We've posted the following stories to the Skoll Foundation Blog over the last two weeks: Mothers2mothers' Amazing Growth
2008 Skoll social entrepreneur Gene Falk and his colleague Robin Smalley of mothers2mothers visited the Foundation to provide an update on the organization's operations. Mothers2mothers uses a mentor mother approach - HIV positive mothers working with HIV positive pregnant women - to stop transmission of the virus to newborns, something largely eliminated in the developed world but still a huge challenge in Africa. Mothers2mothers has seen amazing growth: from 20,000 clients in one country in 2005 to 300,000 clients in seven countries today (20 percent of all HIV infected pregnant women worldwide). The post includes some instructive lessons learned in the process of "building a program for today, but an organization for the long term." Foundation Names New VP of Program and Impact
The Skoll Foundation announced that Ben Binswanger is joining the team as the Vice President for Program and Impact. Ben comes from the Case Foundation, serving most recently as a senior advisor. He's also got strong private sector experience, having worked at AOL and Time Warner, and he's got political chops, too, having been an advisor to Senator Ted Kennedy for a number of years. This is a great combination of skills, well suited for the Foundation's work supporting social entrepreneurs driving large-scale change around the globe. Ben will start on November 16. Honoring Peacebuilders
Search for Common Ground, led by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs John and Susan Collin Marks, announced its 2009 Common Ground Awards. These are "presented annually to honor outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution, negotiation, community building, and peacebuilding. Recipients have made significant contributions toward bridging divides between people, finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems, and providing inspiration and hope where often there was none." You can read about them here. Civic Ventures Names New Purpose Prize Winners
Civic Ventures, led by Marc Freedman, the first in the 2010 cohort of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship recipients, announced its latest Purpose Prize winners. The Purpose Prize, part of Civic Ventures Encore Career campaign, honors "social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society's biggest challenges." Winners receive $100,000 each. Read more about them, and watch short videos on their work, here. Renascer Chief Honored in Rio
Vera Cordeiro, the founder of Renascer and a 2006 Skoll social entrepreneur, has been named Doctor of the Year by the Medical and Surgical Society of Rio de Janeiro. Renascer was founded to attack the problem of chronic re-admission of children to the hospital for the same diseases. Renascer has some impressive results, including a decline by two-thirds in the number of days in hospital for kids in the Renascer program. Renascer's Family Action Plan methodology is increasingly embraced by the policy sector in Brazil. Kiva Leaders On Fortune's 40 Under 40 List
Premal Shah and Matt Flannery of Kiva, 2008 Skoll social entrepreneurs, have landed on Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 list. This annual ranking by Fortune identifies 40 individuals under the age of 40 that Fortune describes as "business's hottest young rising stars. They're innovators, value creators and agents of change." It's an impressive list, kicking off with Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and including Tiger Woods, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Biz Stone and Evan Williams of Twitter. It includes a comment from Premal on his "biggest mistake" as well as a sidebar on Kiva's hiring approach.
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Mothers2mothers Amazing Growth
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