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Dear Skoll Newsletter Subscriber, We've posted the following stories to the Skoll Foundation Blog over the last two weeks: What Matters? McKinsey Talks Social Entrepreneurs
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is focusing on social entrepreneurs currently on "What Matters," its online platform for talking about key business issues. Timed in conjunction with the Skoll World Forum, which McKinsey is supporting this year, the current "What Matters" asks the question, "Can social entrepreneurs create large scale change?" Contributing their opinions will be, among others, Skoll social entrepreneurs Craig Kielburger of Free The Children, Gary Cohen of Health Care Without Harm, Bunker Roy of Barefoot College, Mindy Lubber of Ceres and Rupert Howes of the Marine Stewardship Council. Skoll partners Bill Drayton of Ashoka, Greg Dees of Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University and John Elkington of Volans also weigh in, as does Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg. Teach For All Network Expands To China
We've just learned from Teach For All, headed by 2009 Skoll social entrepreneur Wendy Kopp, that they've expanded into China with the recent addition of the China Education Initiative, bringing to 12 the number of countries in which the network is operational. Launched in September 2007, Teach For All assists social entrepreneurs around the world who have been inspired by the Teach For America and Teach First model and want to adopt it in their respective countries. Skoll World Forum Kicks Off This Week
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship kicks off in Oxford this week. It looks like another great lineup of social entrepreneurs, social finance folks, philanthropists, government representatives, and other social change players. You can see the program here and the list of speakers here. We've got a strong social media component this year that will make the Virtual Forum well worth following. There's a team of bloggers who'll be covering the Forum and a twitter hash tag - #sfw10 - that will consolidate twitter posts relevant to the Forum. We're actively encouraging delegates to blog and tweet about what they hear and see. Deforestation Meetings in Ecuador
Skoll Foundation Program Officer David Rothschild blogs about deforestation meetings in Ecuador hosted by Skoll partner AVINA and the Tällberg foundation. The post includes discussion of the Brazil Amazon Fund, Ecuador's Yasuni oil issue, and a series of interesting quotes from trip participants.
Kashf Featured on America.gov
Roshaneh Zafar, the founder of the Kashf Foundation and a 2007 Skoll social entrepreneur, is featured on America.gov in the run up to the Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit, which takes place April 26-27 in Washington. The Summit will bring together entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs from the Muslim World to meet with U.S. counterparts, government officials and others. America.gov has an article on Roshaneh, a leader in the microfinance sector in Pakistan, here and has also produced a short video. Several other Skoll social entrepreneurs, as well as Skoll Foundation CEO Sally Osberg, will attend the Summit.
Kiva Features in Final Episode of BBC Series on Social Entreprenuers
The 8-part BBC World News series on social entrepreneurs, Alvin's Guide to Good Business, wraps up with a look at Kiva, led by 2008 Skoll social entrepreneurs Matt Flannery and Premal Shah. Kiva has been at the forefront of online peer-to-peer microlending, with nearly $130 million in loans to date going from some 695,000 lenders to 328,000 small entrepreneurs around the world. The episode details Kiva's work in Tanzania, with presenter Alvin Hall checking up on the results of a microloan he makes through Kiva. You can read a BBC Online companion article here.
New Skoll Awards Announced
The Skoll Foundation announced five new recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Forest Trends, Imazon, and Telapak work on protecting forests and natural ecosystems in the Amazon, Indonesia and beyond. One Acre Fund tackles subsistence farming in Africa through an integrated value-chain approach - inputs, training, and marketing - while Tostan uses human rights as a hook for driving community-based social change, including the abandonment of female genital cutting. You can read more in our press release. These five, along with Civic Ventures and Peace Dividend Trust, two award winners announced earlier, will all receive their awards at a ceremony at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford on April 15, 2010.
Paul Farmer on FRONTLINE
Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health and a 2008 Skoll social entrepreneur, is interviewed along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others in a FRONTLINE special on Haiti. Partners in Health has leveraged its significant on-the-ground medical staff, facilities and experience to provide critical medical care in the wake of the earthquake. Per Paul, "This is an opportunity to rethink how aid works and how we, the most powerful country in this part of the world, can work with our oldest neighbor."
BBC Social Entrepreneur Series Features Camfed
The ongoing BBC World News series on social entrepreneurs, Alvin's Guide to Good Business, features Camfed in its penultimate episode. Led by 2005 Skoll social entrepreneur Ann Cotton, Camfed uses an innovative community-based approach to girls education, supporting girls from elementary school through to adulthood. Since 1993, Camfed has improved the school environment for over 1,065,000 children, provided scholarships for 42,000 girls to go to high school, trained over 4,000 teacher mentors and helped over 750 young women go to college. Graduates of the Camfed program are now becoming sponsors of the next generation of girls. There's a companion story to the broadcast on BBC Online here. Camfed has a page related to the broadcast here. |
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