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Dear Skoll Newsletter Subscriber, We've posted the following stories to the Skoll Foundation Blog over the last two weeks: Final Deadline for Applications for 2011 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship is August 4, 2010
The Skoll Foundation is looking for new applicants for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, our flagship program to invest in leading social entrepreneurs around the globe who are advancing promising solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems. The next and final deadline for applications for the 2011 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship is Wednesday, August 4, 2010. Following this deadline, we will be making adjustments aimed at streamlining and simplifying our application process.
As always, we are looking for social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale positive change in the areas of tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and economic and social equity. In addition to alignment with one or more of these issue areas, Skoll Award winners typically exhibit many of the following characteristics: - Led by a visionary, effective social entrepreneur serving as a spokesperson for their issue
- Strong leadership team and board
- Clear mission and implementation model
- Unwavering focus on mission
- Well-established strong partnerships
- Commitment to systems, including for measurement and learning
- Diversified and mission-aligned funding sources
We expect that the selection process will continue to be highly competitive, with 7 to 10 Awards anticipated for the Class of 2011. Click here to learn more. Riders for Health Focus of SSIR Case Study
The Summer 2010 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review includes a Case Study on Riders for Health, headed by 2006 Skoll social entrepreneurs Andrea and Barry Coleman. The Case Study takes an in-depth look at how Andrea and Barry developed a novel financing scheme that involved a program related investment from the Skoll Foundation. The PRI, which served as a loan guarantee for Nigeria-based GT Bank, allowed Riders to scale their operations in the Gambia by deploying their Transport Asset Management (TAP) program. Riders' hope now is that the Gambian example will pave the way for other countries to deploy TAP, enabling greater mobility for thousands of health care workers across Sub-Saharan Africa. Skoll Foundation Commits $10 million to Social Innovation Fund
At a May 27 White House ceremony, First Lady Michelle Obama recognized the Skoll Foundation as one of five private foundations who are committing a total of $45 million to support the Social Innovation Fund (SIF). The Foundation is committing $10 million over two years to support the (SIF), a new competitive grant program housed at the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Foundation's funding is meant to encourage social innovation and enable demonstrated solutions, with evidence of impact, to scale. The resources will be distributed by intermediaries and may be used as matching funds for organizations receiving SIF grants or by other innovative organizations that address three areas of priority: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development and school support. Ben Binswanger, the Foundation's Vice President for Programs & Impact, represented the foundation at the White House ceremony and said, "The creation of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation and the deployment of the Social Innovation Fund mark a watershed moment for social entrepreneurs everywhere. We've long understood that social entrepreneurs can catalyze impact on critical issues. Now that notion is being embraced by nonprofits, business and government." GoodWeave Publishes First Rug Sourcebook
A new Sourcebook that lists more than 70 North American rug companies whose products carry the GoodWeave label independently certifying that their rugs are child-labor-free, is now available through the GoodWeave web site . 2005 Skoll social entrepreneur Nina Smith heads up GoodWeave, formerly known as RugMark, and has been leading a campaign to end child labor in the handmade rug industry. The 2010 GoodWeave Rug Sourcebook is the newest element in that campaign, and was developed at the request of interior designers. The Sourcebook features images of GoodWeave certified child-labor-free rugs and includes a full listing of venues where the rugs can be purchased.
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"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington CarverWhat is Social Entrepreneurship?Statement of Faith
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