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Caption: Enjoying the Premiere Party for The New Heroes documentary series held June 20 in San Jose is Jeff Skoll (center), founder and chairman of the Skoll Foundation (major funder of the series), with friends Paige Rolfe (left) and Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS. |
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Caption: Taking a break during a busy day of premiere events on June 20 in San Jose to celebrate the premiere of The New Heroes documentary series on PBS are (from left) Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS; artist Billy Szaggars; actor/director/producer Robert Redford, host of the series; Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman of the Skoll Foundation, major funder of the series; Paige Rolfe; and Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation. |
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Caption: Robert Redford, host of “The New Heroes,” a PBS documentary series that will debut June 28, tells guests gathered for the Premiere Party on June 20 about his commitment to making the world a better place by telling stories through film. The Skoll Foundation, which invests in, connects and celebrates social entrepreneurs, is the major funder of the series. |
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Caption: Jeff Skoll, founder of the Skoll Foundation and former president of eBay, joked during the June 20 Premiere Party for “The New Heroes” documentary series that Robert Redford was a hard act to follow and that the program Redford has autographed for him “should fetch a few dollars when I list it on eBay.” |
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Caption: Jeff Skoll, left, founder and chairman of the Skoll Foundation and founder and CEO of Participant Productions, chats with Robert Redford at the June 20 Premiere Party for “The New Heroes,” a PBS documentary series debuting June 28. Redford is host of the series, which profiles individuals who are tackling some of the modern world’s most daunting social problems |
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Caption: During the Premiere Party for “The New Heroes” documentary series, series producer Michael S. Malone, far left, asks social entrepreneurs (center, left to right) Martin Fisher, cofounder of KickStart; David Green, founder of Project Impact; and Kailash Satyarthi, chairman of the Global March Against Child Labor, to explain how they use business techniques to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems, such as hunger, poverty and child slavery. At far right is Bill Drayton, chairman of Ashoka, an organization devoted to supporting social entrepreneurship that works closely with the Skoll Foundation, which is the major funder of the series. |
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