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.

FT aims to help African schoolgirls beat poverty : 12/3/2007
(Financial Times) - Maggie, a 14-year-old Zambian schoolgirl, cries as she recalls how her stepfather was accused seven years ago of killing a neighbour's child using witchcraft. As a tear streaks down her left cheek, she describes how a local group started a deadly campaign of persecution against her family, focused on her mother... (read more)

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