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Information on the 2004 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship

  • The first annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship was held March 29-31, 2004
  • Those who participated were some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs, as well as thought leaders, nonprofit professionals and academics involved in the field
  • The Forum provided an opportunity to learn the new strategies and tactics that successful social entrepreneurs are using, and how they mobilize support
  • Participants had a chance to discover the skills needed to become a social entrepreneur
  • Other discussions focused on what social entrepreneurs can learn from business, and how businesses can be enlisted to promote social change

Among those participating were these leaders in social entrepreneurship:

Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman of the Skoll Foundation
Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation
Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
Roshaneh Zafar, Founder and Managing Director of the Kashf Foundation in Pakistan
Bill Drayton, Founder of Ashoka
Bill Strickland, Founder and CEO of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Jeroo Billimoria, Founder of Childline India Foundation
J. Gregory Dees, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University
Pamela Hartigan, Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation
Professor Lester Salamon, Director of the Center for Civil Society Issues at Johns Hopkins University
David Bornstein, author of "The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank" and "How to Change the World"

Click here to learn about the 2006 Skoll World Forum.

Click here to learn about the 2005 Skoll World Forum.

Click here to learn about the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

Click here to read the opening speech at the 2004 Skoll World Forum by Jeff Skoll.

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The Skoll Foundation today announced Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship for 11 organizations working around the world in the areas of tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, and economic and social equity. The recipients, who will each receive three-year grants of $1,000,000, join a growing global network of Skoll social entrepreneurs, now numbering 59, who have created innovative, proven solutions for tackling the world’s most urgent social and economic challenges.

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