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Dear Skoll Newsletter Subscriber, We've posted the following stories to the Skoll Foundation Blog over the last two weeks: Ceres Helps Drive SEC Move on Climate Risk Disclosure
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 has put out "new interpretive guidance that clarifies what publicly-traded companies need to disclose to investors in terms of climate-related 'material' effects on business operations, whether from new emissions management policies, the physical impacts of changing weather or business opportunities associated with the growing clean energy economy." Per Ceres, this is the first economy-wide climate risk disclosure requirement in the world. A major focus of Ceres' work has been to coalesce institutional investors to bring pressure to bear on regulators to require more stringent climate risk disclosure rules. Given the lack of progress in Copenhagen on a binding global agreement with teeth, this type of industry-driven approach to addressing climate change is likely to be where real progress is made. Sa簿d Business School Moves Up
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 number 16 showing is impressive for the still young business school. The report includes a series of predictions for 2010 for business education. Roger Martin, a Skoll Foundation board member and Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, is quoted: "It would be wonderful if business education could shift its focus from analysis of narrowly defined problems to the creative tackling of the broad, messy problems that characterize our world – the solutions to which fuel society's overall rate of progress." Nice Sundance Coverage
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 here. We've posted several photos, including one of Jeff Skoll with the Skoll social entrepreneurs attending the Skoll-Sundance Institute convening: Bunker Roy (Barefoot College), Quratul Ain Bakhteari (IDSP), Munqeth Mehyar (EcoPeace) and Martin von Hildebrand (Gaia Amazonas). Skoll Update from the Sundance Film Festival
Skoll CEO Sally Osberg and Sandy Herz, who oversees the Skoll Foundation's film and broadcast partnerships, provide an on-the-ground report from the Sundance Film Festival. The post talks about "Can't Be Done!", the panel moderated by Sally Osberg with Muhammad Yunus, Geoffrey Canada of Harlem Children's Zone, and Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute. It also covers the premiere of To Catch A Dollar, the first film under the Skoll-Sundance Stories of Change partnership. It also includes the press conference on the film, with Sally, Yunus, Cara Mertes of the Sundance Institute and filmmaker Gayle Ferraro.
Skoll Global Threats Fund Ramps Up
The Skoll Global Threats Fund, created by Jeff Skoll last year and led by Larry Brilliant, announced its first grants and executive hire and launched a new website. The site gives a good overview of the organization's mission and approach on the five global threats it will focus on initially: climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict. The Skoll Global Threat Fund's first grants are to Ploughshares, to promote nuclear weapons elimination, and J Street, to encourage moderate voices in support of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first executive hire is Eric Nonacs as VP, Alliances and Partnerships, who arrives with a strong background working on social change issues with, among others, the Clinton Foundation.
Nice Cross-Fertilization of Skoll Social Entrepreneurs
Arzu Studio Hope, founded by 2008 Skoll social entrepreneur Connie Duckworth, is leveraging its program to help another Skoll social entrepreneur, Paul Farmer, with his work with Partners in Health in Haiti. Arzu, which helps break the cycle of poverty in Afghanistan through its program to link Afghan rug sales in the developed world to education and development activities in Afghanistan, will donate 25 percent of each Arzu rug purchased through January to Partners of Health.
Skoll Foundation at Sundance Film Festival
This post previews the Skoll Foundation's activities at the Sundance Film Festival this year.
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Skoll Foundation at Sundance
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