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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
1/26/12One-Third of Skoll Awardees named to Top 100 NGO list
The Global Journal, a new publication aimed at opinion leaders and policy makers in the development sector, has just put out its Top 100 Best NGOs in the World, and 31 of them are Skoll Awardees. They started with a list of 1,000, then narrowed it down to 400, then these. Read about their criteria and metrics. Congratulations to all:
Partners in Health, Barefoot College, Water for People, Pratham, APOPO, Ceres, Digital Divide Data, Teach for America, Landesa, Root Capital, Saude Crianca, Population and Community Development Association, Gaias Amizonas, Tostan, Escuela Nueva, Aflatoun, Gram Vikas, Search for Common Ground, Center for Digital Inclusion, One Acre Fund, Kickstart, One World Health (founder Victoria Hale, is a 2005 Skoll social entrepreneur), Room to Read, Free the Children, IDE-India, Friends International, ICTJ, Witness, International Bridges to Justice, Injaz Al-Arab, and Global Footprint Network.
1/25/12Stories of Change Charged Up Sundance’s Main Street
Talk about spirited discussion. Stories of Change charged up Main Street, Park City Tuesday afternoon. Led by the Skoll Foundation and the Sundance Institute, the SoC panel discussion brought social entrepreneurs Joia Mukherjee (Partners in Health) and Bunker Roy (Barefoot College) to the stage, along with the film-makers who are telling their stories. There was a packed house at the Egyptian Theater – and lots of cheers and clapping.
Jeff Skoll, kicking things off, said social entrepreneurs and film-makers are “a potent team that help us have hope.” Their work – in the field, and on screen – can make the difference between a bleak future and a bright one. “Storytelling isn’t just a good idea,” he said, “it’s absolutely critical.”
Joia (featured in a film by Kief Davidson) thanked Sally Osberg ” for teaching me what a social entrepreneur is,” and talked about how PIH now employs 15,000 people, 80 percent of them the rural poor. Bunker (featured in a film by Jehane Noujaim) talked of his dream to have “solar grandmothers from every part of the world. They come as grandmothers and go back like tigers.” One such granny, 55, in Afghanistan, has lit 200 homes.
The crowd – including a great showing of other Skoll awardees: Gary White, Molly Melching, Beto Verissimo and Carlos Souza Jr, and Gene Falk – was rapt, particularly after watching clips from the working cuts of both films. But, at least in this part of Sundance, there was no celebrity worship going on. Sally Osberg, summing up, said: “Social entrepreneurs know the most important characters are the consituents they serve.”
11/29/11SKOLL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2012 AWARD WINNERS AND THEIR “CITIZEN-DRIVEN CHANGE”
November 29, 2011 – Palo Alto, CA – The Skoll Foundation today announced the 2012 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.
“Looking at our winners, we are humbled,” said Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the foundation. “Our goal is impact – these are the people pulling it off. They’ve shown not just entrepreneurial vision, but the persistence needed to make lasting change. The four organizations we honor this year offer scalable, proven solutions to some of the world’s most daunting problems. Three of the four are from Asian countries. All are pioneering new grassroots mechanisms that unleash the power of citizen-driven change, a hallmark of true social entrepreneurship.”
© 2012 Skoll Foundation.