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SKOLL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES THREE NEW APPOINTMENTS

SAN JOSE, California - January 21, 2004 - The Skoll Foundation today announced three key appointments that are designed to strengthen the organization at a time of accelerated growth.

Barbara Kibbe has been appointed Vice President for Program and Effectiveness, Terry Nagel has been named Communications Officer, and Jeffery "Vaz" Douglas has been designated as Online Community Coordinator.

In her new role as Vice President for Program and Effectiveness, Barbara is responsible for leading a growing team of professionals who guide the Skoll Foundation's grantmaking, as well as designing and implementing a system for measuring the results of grantmaking.

Barbara brings more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector as a nonprofit executive, grantmaker and foundation program director. She most recently worked as a consultant to a range of corporate and private funders, including the Levi-Strauss Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Fannie Mae Foundation. From 1996 to 2003, she was on the staff of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she ultimately served as Director of the Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Program, directing a total of $100 million in grants over six years.

Barbara is the coauthor of two books: Succeeding with Consultants, published by the Foundation Center; and Grantmaking Basics, published by the Council on Foundations. She is a founder of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), a group of more than 700 funders dedicated to building knowledge, promoting learning and encouraging dialogue on nonprofit and grantmaker effectiveness. Her newest publication, "Reflections on the Journey," will be included in a collection of essays on the funder role in building nonprofit capacity; it will be published later this year by Jossey-Bass and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.

As Communications Officer, Terry coordinates the foundation's media relations, public relations and Web site content. Before coming to the Skoll Foundation, she worked as a journalist for more than 25 years, most recently as Managing Editor of GreatSchools.net, a nonprofit Web site providing free education information to parents, and as Assistant Managing Editor of Forbes ASAP magazine. She previously worked as an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner and the San Mateo Times. She also founded and ran two online community forums and wrote family travel columns for Expedia.com.

Terry has been an active community and school volunteer for many years. Last spring, she graduated from Coro Northern California's Community Fellows Program, which teaches community leadership and collaboration skills. In November 2003, she was elected to the Burlingame City Council for a four-year term.

Vaz is a pioneer in the field of online communities, customer satisfaction and loyalty. He brings more than a decade of experience in managing and growing online communities to the Skoll Foundation.

In his new position as Online Community Coordinator, he is responsible for the community development of Social Edge, the Skoll Foundation's online meeting place at www.socialedge.org for social entrepreneurs and other interested participants in the social sector. He plans and produces online and live events for the community and develops projects that connect participants.

Before joining the Skoll Foundation, Vaz was Director of Community at There, Inc. He previously served as Director of Communities and Support at Communities.com and as Producer for Fujitsu Software Corporation's Cultural Technologies Division.

Sally Osberg, President and CEO, said, "Barbara, Terry and Vaz are joining us at a time when the Skoll Foundation is growing rapidly, innovating and implementing new strategies. We welcome their help as the foundation works to transform communities around the world in significant and lasting ways."

About the Skoll Foundation

Headquartered in San Jose in California's Silicon Valley, the Skoll Foundation was created in 1999 by Jeff Skoll, the first employee and first president of eBay. Its mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs, who use business skills to act as change agents for society.
The Skoll Foundation invests in social entrepreneurs through three award programs and the new Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School at Oxford University. The Foundation connects social entrepreneurs through its online community, Social Edge, at www.socialedge.org. It celebrates social entrepreneurs through media projects such as a four-part public television documentary that will be broadcast in late 2004, and via the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, which will be held at the Skoll Centre in March 2004. For more information, see www.skollfoundation.org.