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Pratham was featured in a segment on PBS NewsHour last night. Watch it above. Here’s an excerpt: “FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Madhav Chavan is trying to revolutionize the way India’s children learn and the way they are taught, starting as early as possible. As these preschoolers identify the first letter in Hindi for the word mango, [...]

Late last month, Jeff Skoll had a future-looking conversation with brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk. Elon Musk is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX and CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors; Kimbal Musk is the co-founder of The Kitchen Community. They discussed the inspiration, motivation and business processes behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, the Kitchen and the Kitchen [...]

Tostan was recently featured on PBS NewsHour – both in an updated TV segment and in a brand-new online segment focusing on Tostan’s new book.

There are nearly three billion adults worldwide who lack basic financial services, and most of them are women.

This week, our portfolio director Alex Sloan was a judge, and later a keynote speaker, in Doha, Qatar at an incredible event, which you can learn all about above. At around the 2:50 mark in this video, you’ll hear him talk about his experience: “It’s been a fantastic week here in Doha. I come from [...]

The Skoll Foundation’s director of strategic alliances, Sandy Herz, joined acclaimed screenwriter Neal Baer on HuffPo Live, discussing how they help social entrepreneurs such as APOPO tell their stories.

We wanted to share Water for People’s new reporting platform that reinvents how data and monitoring is shared publicly.  Here is CEO Ned Breslin’s letter about it: “This week we released version 1 of our new Re-Imagine Reporting (RIR) platform that vastly changes how we visualize our monitoring results to drive our programs and decisions year after year. [...]

On April 30, a new book However Long the Night — Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph is being released by HarperOne and the Skoll Foundation. Melching will be in Washington, D.C., New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area starting April 29 — scroll down for dates and locations. Endorsed [...]

We begin to tell you about the Skoll World Forum opening plenary by talking about partnerships.

I will be at We Day tomorrow — the first one in the United States. For some inspiration, I wanted to share a video from Free the Children, which runs We Day. Stay tuned tomorrow for coverage of the first U.S. We Day — in Seattle!

On CNN’s Piers Morgan Live Craig Kielburger was joined by celebrity supporters Mia Farrow and Martin Sheen promoting Free the Children’s upcoming We Day.

Ten years ago this month, there was a choice about whether to go to war with Iraq….Less examined is this crucial question: even if you believe that Hussein’s brutal regime had to be removed, were there alternatives to invading Iraq?

On this International Women’s Day, let’s work together to ensure that girls do not carry the responsibilities of womanhood too soon, but grow up through a childhood filled with the educational opportunity that is the right of every child.

Today, we met Alma Zavala, who I see as the true face of our JobRaising competition. Alma is a client of JVS Los Angeles, who won $150,000 from the Skoll Foundation in the JobRaising Challenge.

The JobRaising Challenge, our initiative in partnership with the Huffington Post, CrowdRise and McKinsey & Company to help job-creating nonprofits raise money and awareness, ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. The Challenge has already resulted in 3,500 donations from across the country, with 80 percent of those being under $100. It received a mention Thursday from CNN [...]

Mark Plotkin of Amazon Conservation Team just wrote an excellent piece for Harvard magazine about Alexander Hamilton Rice, a true Harvard man who traversed and mapped enormous tracts of Amazonian rainforest in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Los Angeles, California. February 12, 2013. Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org, held a press conference where he announced that to protest the fact that 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet or basic sanitation, he will be going on a “toilet strike.”

On January 20, 2013 in Ziguinchor, a region of southern Senegal, there was a very large public declaration for the abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) and child/forced marriage by 427 communities. This was the first-ever regional public declaration in Senegal.

So what is the film? That’s the Skoll-supported “Girl Rising,” which features three Skoll Award recipient organizations: Room to Read, Partners in Health and (in the campaign but not the film) Pratham USA.

It’s official – the Skoll Foundation/Sundance Stories of Change short film OPEN HEART has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Short category.