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Skoll Foundation News - 2004

11.29.04 Creative Giving: How Five Nonprofits are Changing the Face of Philanthropy - Barron's Online

10.01.04 Baby Boomer Benefactors Will Redefine Philanthropy - San Jose Mercury News

09.30.04 Skoll Donates $5 Million Challenge Grant for Community Foundation Silicon Valley 50th (.pdf file) - Community Foundation Silicon Valley Press Release

09.30.04 Skoll Foundation Helps Power Community Foundation Silicon Valley - San Jose Mercury News

09.30.04 Jeff Skoll Urges Valley to Create Local Endowment - San Jose Mercury News

Summer 2004 Interview: Jeff Skoll - Business Strategy Review (.pdf file)

Summer 2004 The Case for Social Entrepreneurship - Business At Oxford

06.18.04 Tech Billionaire Going Hollywood -- His Way - San Jose Mercury News

05.22.04 Foundations Unveil Unique Giving Tactics - San Jose Mercury News

03.08.04 Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB Announces Major Gift from the Skoll Foundation to Produce National Documentary Series: The New Heroes

02.04 The Skoll Foundation Focuses on Social Entrepreneurship - Stanford Graduate School of Business

01.22.04 The Revolution Begins in Oxford - The Independent

01.04 Social Capitalists: The Top 20 Groups that are Changing the World - Fast Company

01.04 Not yet 40, eBay Founder Jeff Skoll Is Already Making a Difference - Philanthropy World

Big Giving Makes a Comeback - Chronicle of Philanthropy

Foundation News and Commentary - Foundation Boards in Cyberspace

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.

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