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The Skoll Fund
Board of Directors
The Skoll Foundation encompasses two separate corporations: a private foundation, The Skoll Foundation, and a public charity whose legal name is The Skoll Fund. The Skoll Fund, created in 1999, is a supporting organization associated with Silicon Valley Community Foundation of San Jose, California. The private foundation was launched in 2002. Each entity is governed by its own board of directors. The two entities share grantmaking, program and administrative resources. Both organizations were founded to support social entrepreneurship, and together they are known as the Skoll Foundation.
Board of Directors
 Jeffrey S. Skoll
Founder and Chairman, Skoll Foundation
 Larry Brilliant
Executive Director, Google.org
 James G.B. DeMartini, III
Managing Partner, Seiler & Company, LLP
 Kirk O. Hanson
Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
 Peter Hero
Senior Adviser, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Skoll Foundation and The Skoll Fund jointly fund the Skoll award programs. For more information about the award programs and how to apply for funding, click here.
For a list of the Board of Directors of The Skoll Foundation, click here. |
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Skoll Foundation Adds Eleven Pioneering Organizations to its Global Portfolio of Leading Social Entrepreneurs : 3/11/2008
The Skoll Foundation today announced Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship for 11 organizations working around the world in the areas of tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, and economic and social equity. The recipients, who will each receive three-year grants of $1,000,000, join a growing global network of Skoll social entrepreneurs, now numbering 59, who have created innovative, proven solutions for tackling the world’s most urgent social and economic challenges. |
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