Posts Tagged ‘Manchester-Bidwell Corporation’
“Jeff Skoll’s only absolute mandate… is for everyone to think big”
March 14, 2012 by Sally Farhat Kassab
The newest issue of Stanford Magazine profiles Jeff Skoll, and covers everything from his childhood love of reading to his latest blockbuster films. The article also highlights the work of four Skoll Awardees: Manchester-Bidwell Corporation, Afghan Institute of Learning, One Acre Fund and Amazon Conservation Team. An excerpt:
“By the time he entered his teens, Skoll already was thinking globally. ‘I could kind of see a lot of trends in the world were getting scary, that by the time I was older the world would have problems with population and resources and potentially deadly diseases and all kinds of things that kind of scared me. And I thought I’d like to get involved in these issues, make people aware of them, and as a kid I thought I would actually do it by being a writer. So that was my first goal.’” read more
Bill Strickland Wins 2011 Goi Peace Award
November 23, 2011 by Sally Farhat KassabThe Goi Peace Foundation recently bestowed the 2011 Goi Peace Award on Bill Strickland of Manchester Bidwell Corporation. Manchester-Bidwell is a jobs training center and community arts program which gives disadvantaged students the opportunities they need for a better future. Recently back from Japan, Strickland says, “I visited one of the hardest hit communities from the [...]
Six Grammys For Skoll Awardee
November 14, 2011 by Sally Farhat KassabMCG Jazz, the independent recording label housed at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in Pittsburgh, PA, has again produced a CD that has won two Latin Grammy Awards. Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild is a subsidiary of Skoll Awardee Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a non-profit arts and learning center. With these two awards, MCG Jazz has received three Latin Grammy wins [...]
Bill Strickland tapped by White House for Council for Community Solutions
December 15, 2010 by Eddie Scher
On December 14 President Barack Obama established the White House Council for Community Solutions, naming Bill Strickland one of 25 Council members. The Council will provide advice to the President on the best ways to mobilize citizens, nonprofits, businesses and government to work more effectively together to solve specific community needs.
Bill Strickland, a Skoll Social Entrepreneur, is the founder of the Manchester Institution, home of the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and Bidwell Training Center, which trains people in, among other skills, ceramics, orchid growing, photography, culinary careers and music. read more
Ten Innovative Social Entrepreneurs Receive Million-Dollar Awards from the Skoll Foundation
March 14, 2007 by phil
PALO ALTO, Calif.—March 14, 2007—The Skoll Foundation today announced it is awarding $10,150,000 to 10 recipients of the 2007 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. The recipients, who will each receive three-year grants of $1,015,000, are organizations that target social issues in need of urgent attention.
This year’s Skoll entrepreneurs include a former French businessman who is building networks to prevent the abuse of street children, two longtime environmentalists whose “Ecological Footprint” enables businesses and governments to measure their role in depleting the world’s ecological assets, a community activist who helps villages in India run sustainable sanitation and clean water facilities, and a former accountant who is helping replenish the world’s collapsing fish stocks with an international seafood eco-labeling and certification program. read more