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Dear Skoll Newsletter Subscriber, We've posted the following stories to the Skoll Foundation Blog over the last two weeks: Verité Partners to Protect Florida Farm Workers
Verité, led by 2007 Skoll social entrepreneur Dan Viederman, has just struck an innovative partnership with a Florida farm workers organization to improve wages and working conditions in the Florida tomato picking industry. Involving agreements with leading retail food outlooks like Yum Brands, McDonalds and more, this is a "first of its kind" program, according to Dan, and an innovative approach to a complex problem. Sally Osberg Contributing to Intrepid Philanthropist
Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg is contributing blog posts this week to the Intrepid Philanthropist blog, a new initiative at the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke. You can read those here. Barron’s Credits Skoll for Effective Philanthropy
Barrons' Magazine this week has a cover story on effective philanthropists. "The 25 Best Givers" doesn't look at just levels of giving by philanthropists, but instead focuses on factors like "innovation, quality of alliances with other groups, the ripple effects of their giving and the extent to which their successful projects can be replicated." Jeff Skoll is second on the list of 25. The article also mentions Jeff's founding of the Skoll Centre at Oxford and his work with Participant Media in making movies that both entertain and inspire people to action on social and environmental issues. New Data Says We Need a Planet and a Half to Sustain Current Trends
Global Footprint Network, co-founded by 2007 Skoll social entrepreneurs Mathis Wackernagel and Susan Burns, has just published new data showing that we're up to 1.5 earths in terms of humanity's global ecological footprint. What this means is that, given current consumption and waste statistics, we need a planet and a half to provide enough resources to sustainably meet humanity's overall consumption rates and to absorb the carbon and other wastes we emit. Check this page to see graphically how different countries fare and how the key components of ecological overshoot stack up.
Citizen Schools' Million Ways to Teach
Citizen Schools, led by 2005 Skoll social entrepreneur Eric Schwarz, has just launched a campaign to engage citizens with "expert" skills to volunteer as teachers. Called "A Million Ways to Teach," the campaign is launching with a short public service announcement spot, which you can view here, as well as a slightly longer video of a volunteer teacher, a long-term IBM employee, using kite building and flying to teach aeronautics and climate. The campaign is in partnership with EnCorps, which has pioneered a public-private approach to get more math and science teachers into California schools.
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Barron's Taps Jeff Skoll as Leader in Effective Philanthropy
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