Connecting and Celebrating Social Entrepreneurs

Investing, Connecting and Celebrating Social Entrepreneurs

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What Is a Social Entrepreneur?

What We Do: The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurs are proven leaders whose approaches and solutions to social problems are helping to better the lives and circumstances of countless underserved or disadvantaged individuals. Find out more.

	Microfinance Case Studies Discover how microfinance experts work (and fail) in a series of case studies written with Unitus. Cast Studies
	2007 Annual Report Released The Skoll Foundation's 2007 Annual Report has now been released. Click here to read about highlights for the year and profiles of our award recipients.
	New Skoll Award Recipients Announced! Skoll Foundation Adds Eleven Pioneering Organizations to its Global Portfolio of Leading Social Entrepreneurs. Read about the organizations here
	New Deadlines Are Posted We are now accepting applications for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. Click here to read the award guidelines, or download them in PDF format
	PBS and the PBS Foundation Announce Winners of Social Entrepreneurship Grant from the Skoll Foundation $1.25 Million Awarded to Highlight the Pioneering Work of Individuals Solving Societal Problems First Recipient of Grant Won National Business Emmy.
	Sundance Launches Documentary Partnership with Skoll Read about the new Stories of Change initiative exploring film's role in advancing knowledge about social entrepreneurship.

Sundance Institute Launches Documentary Partnership With Skoll Foundation : 9/25/2007
Sundance Institute and the Skoll Foundation announced today a $3 million, three-year partnership dedicated to exploring film's role in advancing knowledge about social entrepreneurship. The grant will support the launch of Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship In Focus Through Documentary, a new initiative spearheaded by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.

What's Happening Now:

Disaster Recovery and Communications Planning
The Fetishization of Scaling Up
How to Drive Traffic to Your Site
Open Thread

Coming Soon on Social Edge:

Government Interference
Failure
New Entrepreneurs Interviews: Laura Praise, Emily Arnold-Fernandez
The X-Interviews: Christopher J. Elias, Giselle Yitamben