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Skoll Foundation Awardees in the News
12.05.07 "Single Mom Saves in Age of Big Spender," by Patty Fisher. San Jose Mercury News (about Lenders for Community Development, requires sign-up)
12.04.07 "Why Are So Many Charities Ineffective?" The Economist (about Forces for Good by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant)
12.01.07 "45 Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World" (5-year winners include College Summit, Rood to Read and WITNESS; 2008 Social Capitalist awardees include Ceres, Citizen Schools, KickStart, Root Capital, TransFair USA and Civic Ventures; newcomers include Acumen; for-profits with a purpose include SustainAbility). Fast Company
12.01.07 "FT aims to help African schoolgirls beat poverty" by Michael Peel. Financial Times (about CAMFED)
12.01.07 "I think I have a bright future" by Michael Peel. Financial Times (about CAMFED)
11.30.07 "Goodwill Corps," by Harsh Kabra. The Hindu Business Line (about Barefoot College and IDE-India)
11.26.07 "The Times Christmas Charities." The Times (about Riders for Health)
11.26.07 "About Riders for Health." The Times
11.25.07 "We tell each other that we are making history" by Caroline Daniel. Financial Times (about CAMFED)
11.12.07 Press Release: "Not the Usual Corporate Holiday Gift: GlobalGiving's New Biodegradable Gift Cards Offer Alternative to Usual Year-End Fare"
11.18.07 "Earth Angels: The Caregiver. The Healthcare Industry Needed to Clean Up Its Act, and Gary Cohen Helped Them Do It," by Catherine Elton. Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (about Health Care Without Harm)
11.09.07 "Ecological Footprints." Radio interview with Mathis Wackernagel of Global Footprint Network by Bruce Gellerman, host of "Living on Earth"
11.05.07 "Victoria Hale, developer of affordable drugs for the world’s poor" by Brian Alexander. Glamour Magazine (OneWorld Health Founder Victoria Hale Selected as A Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine)
10.30.07 "Verité Selected For Key Role in Improving Labor Conditions in Cocoa Production" (press release by Verité)
10.29.07 "5 Questions for Cara Mertes, Director, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program" by Alice Garrard. Philanthropy News Digest
10.25.07 "UAE launches drive to measure ecological ability," by Marten Youssef. Gulf News.com. featuring an interview with Mathis Wackernagel (of Global Footprint Network)
10.19.07 "Funds a Welcome Sight," by Kristina Peterson. Palo Alto (Calif.) Daily News. (About Benetech’s $32 million federal grant)
10.19.07 "Water consumption to be cut by half," by Samir Salama. Gulf News.com. (about Global Footprint Network)
10.05.07 "Awards for Lapdesk, Food Scheme and Credit Site," by BuaNews. AllAfrica.com (about CIDA City Campus)
10.02.07 "Fair Trade in Bloom," by Andrew Downie. The New York Times (about TransFair USA)
09.27.07 "Running the Gauntlet," by Tara Weiss. Forbes.com (about Riders for Health)
09.26.07 "Clinton Announces More than $4.5 Billion in Pledges of Global Aid," by Caroline Preston. Chronicle of Philanthropy (about Search for Common Ground, and CDI)
09.19.07 "Hospital Food That Won't Make You Sick," by Laura Landro (about HealthCare Without Harm), Wall Street Journal
09.07.07 "A rethink of boundaries," by Stuart Theobald. Financial Mail (about CIDA City Campus)
09.01.07 "A Conversation with Bill Drayton," by Dorinda Elliot (about Ashoka founder), Conde Nast Traveler
09.01.07 "Can foundations practise corporate acupuncture?" opinion piece by John Elkington (of SustainAbility). Alliance magazine
08.14.07 "Hospitals Move to Phase Out Chemical," by Liz Szabo. USA Today (about Health Care Without Harm)
08.01.07 "Geeks for Good: Jim Fruchterman harnesses Silicon Valley's engineering talent for social change," by Greta Lorge. Stanford Magazine
07.31.07 "Solar Power Makes Tiny Village Beam," by Arwa Damon, CNN (about Barefoot College)
07.30.07 "Ending Poverty, But Only on Paper," by Bunker Roy (of Barefoot College), The American
07.27.07 "Making a Hard-Life Story Open a Door to College," by Sara Rimer, The New York Times (about College Summit)
07.25.07 "Helping the Poor to Help Themselves," by Zweli Mokgata, The Times of South Africa (about Taddy Blecher of CIDA City Campus)
07.24.07 "Where Are They Now?" by Carrie Crockett, Motley Fool (includes Room to Read)
07.19.07 "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: How John Wood Left One of the World’s Richest Companies to Create a More Meaningful Life," by Hema Nair. Beliefnet.com. (about Room to Read)
07.12.07 "Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life," by Robert Powell, WSJ.com (about Civic Ventures)
07.09.07 "LifeSaver Hero: Andrea Coleman," by Anthea from Oxford, MyHero.com (about Riders for Health)
07.01.07 "Sustainability Gets a Warmer Embrace from U.S. Companies" by Mindy Lubber of Ceres, Green Money
06.19.07 "Author Sees Career Encore for Boomers," by Susan Felt, Arizona Republic (about Civic Ventures)
06.17.07 "Everyone Deserves Access to Technology, Online World," opinion piece by Jim Fruchterman (of Benetech) and Gregg Vanderheiden. Sacramento Bee
06.17.07 "Silicon Valley Nonprofit Uses Technology for Social Causes," by Maria Henson, Sacramento Bee (about Benetech)
06.07.07 "New Study Asks: Can Globalization and Sustainability Coexist?" GreenBiz.com (about SustainAbility)
05.29.07 "Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor," by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., The New York Times.
04.23.07 Press Release: ‘Idol Gives Back’ Education Web Site for Kids and Teachers Launches at www.scholastic.com/idolgivesback
04.11.07 "Local Winner Nominated for National Award"(about Heidi Kühn, founder of Roots of Peace), CBS 5
03.28.07 "Leading Questions: Ann Cotton, Founder and Chief Executive of the Campaign for Female Education," by Alison Benjamin, Guardian Unlimited
03.23.07 "Local Nonprofit Verite Lands $1 Million Grant," by Rachael Hanley, Amherst Bulletin
03.17.07 "Oakland Firm Wins $1 Million for Eco-Tool," Contra Costa Times
03.15.07 "Footprint Founders Take Skoll Social Entrep. Prize," Kauaian.net
03.13.07 "Verite, Skoll and Social Justice," MarcGunther.com
03.01.07 "Roots of Peace Exchanges Mines for Vines," Wine Enthusiast Online
03.19.07 Press Release: PBS and the PBS Foundation Announce First Recipient of Social Entrepreneurship Fund Grant (.pdf file)
03.15.07 "Youth Group Wins $1M Grant for Building Affordable Housing" by April Simpson, Boston Globe (about YouthBuild USA)
03.15.07 "YouthBuild Founder Awarded $1M for Innovative Work" by Renee Nadeau, Boston Herald
03.15.07 "Oakland’s Global Footprint Wins Skoll Grant," San Francisco Business Times
03.15.07 "Kielburger Charity Given Grant" by Oliver Moore, Globe and Mail (about Free The Children)
03.09.07 "Nonprofit Drug Company Dream Now a Reality" by John Larson, NBC Nightly News (about Institute for OneWorld Health)
01.01.07 "In Pursuit of the Cure", by Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health as told to Elisabeth Olson, New York Times
01.01.07 Feature Story: "Mines to Vines", by Eric Vance, California Magazine (for U.C. Berkeley alumni), (about Heidi Kühn of Roots of Peace)
12.21.06 Organization Builds Young Entrepreneurs and Sends Many to College, by Karina Rusk, KGO TV (about BUILD)
12.21.06 A Woman's Fight to Save the Poor From Black Fever, by Scott Brineman, Conservative Revolutionary American Party III (about Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health)
12.06.06 Silicon Valley Moguls Support Microlenders, Just Not in the U.S., by Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal (featuring Eric Weaver of Lenders for Community Development)
12.05.06 All About the Business, by Adrian Hirsch, BusinessReport.com (featuring Bill Strickland of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild)
12.01.06 A Matter of Life and Death, by Michael Peel, FT.com (featuring Ann Cotton of CAMFED)
12.01.06 Doing Well by Doing Good, IEEE Spectrum (featuring Jim Fruchterman of Benetech)
12.01.06 43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World: Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards, Fast Company (features 11 Skoll Awardees)
11.30.06 Sowing the Seeds of Peace, by Kate Kelly, CBS 5.com (featuring Heidi Kühn of Roots of Peace)
11.29.06 Proof That Every Penny Counts, by Carolyn Johnson, ABC 7 (featuring Heidi Kühn of Roots of Peace)
11.26.06 Jefferson Award: Saving the world, one mine at a time, by Shelah Moody, San Francisco Chronicle (featuring Roots of Peace)
11.10.06 Seed money benefits small business entrepreneurs, by Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News (featuring Lenders for Community Development)
11.02.06 Silicon Insider: Social Entrepreneurs Could Help Monetize the Web, by Michael Malone, ABCNews.com (with focus on Muhammad Yunus)
11.02.06 The Politics of Change, Open Democracy (featuring John Elkington)
10.31.06 Skoll Foundation, Give2Asia Partner to Promote Philanthropy to Asia, Philanthropy News Digest
10.17.06 Seeing Is Believing, by Megan Johnston, Forbes.com (featuring Gillian Caldwell of WITNESS)
10.17.06 Social Entrepreneur Bill Strickland's 'Business' Puts People Back into Life, by Rosanne Skirble, VOA News.com (featuring Manchester Bidwell Corporation)
09.27.06 Righteous Carpet Making, by Susan Fornoff, San Francisco Chronicle (featuring Nina Smith of Rugmark)
09.21.06 RugMark Launches Campaign to End Illegal Child Labor in Rug Production
09.16.06 Dr. Victoria Hale Named MacArthur Fellow
09.16.06 Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman Receives 2006 MacArthur Fellowship
08.16.06 Hospitals Opting for Organic Local Foods, Treehugger.com (featuring Gary Cohen of HealthCare Without Harm)
08.16.06 New Skoll chairholder appointed, by Ken McGuffin, University of Toronto News
07.31.06 RugMark Rolls Out Campaign to End Child Labor, Furniture World Magazine (featuring Nina Smith of Rugmark)
07.31.06 A Small Charity Takes Lead in Fighting a Disease, by Stephanie Strom, New York Times (featuring Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health plus Andrea and Barry Coleman of Riders for Health)
07.30.06 The Power of Persuasion, by Elizabeth Green, US News(featuring Karen Tse of International Bridges to Justice)
05.23.06 Center for Arts & Tech Inspires Minds, Wood TV 8 (featuring Bill Strickland of Manchester Bidwell Corp.)
05.21.06 A Moneymaking Water Pump, by Ross Perlin, Time Magazine (featuring Martin Fisher and Nick Moon of KickStart)
05.17.06 Kaiser Permanente Building Healthy ‘Green’ Hospital, by Kai Ryssdal and Shia Levitt, NPR Marketplace (featuring Gary Cohen of Health Care Without Harm)
05.15.06 Healthier Hospital Food - by Margot Roosevelt, TIME Magazine (featuring Gary Cohen of HealthCare Without Harm)
05.01.06 Barefoot Is Better: Bunker Roy Says Entrepreneurship, Not Massive Aid Programs, Will Solve Mass Poverty, by Jennifer Vilaga, Fast Company
04.27.06 Green Oscars Team in City to Film IDEI Work, ExpressIndia News Services (featuring Amitabha Sadangi of IDE-India) (.pdf file)
04.12.06 Craftsmen's Guild targets Big Easy - by Andrew Conte, Pittsburgh Live (featuring Bill Strickland of Manchester Craftsman's Guild)
04.06.06 A Love of Science and a Vision to Save Millions of Lives Make Her Day - by Kimberlee Roth, Chronicle of Philanthroy (featuring Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health)
03.24.06 Huge Cash Boost for Local Charity - Daventry Today (featuring Andrea and Barry Coleman of Riders for Health)
03.20.06 Dr Taddy Blecher: CEO and co-founder, CIDA City Campus - by Alec Hogg, MoneyWeb
03.19.06 Million-Dollar Campus: Low-cost university wins top US award - by Phindle Chauke, Sunday Times (featuring Taddy Blecher of CIDA City Campus)
03.14.06 High-Tech Solution For Afghan Farmers - by Cheryl Jennings, ABC-TV News (featuring Heidi Kühn of Roots of Peace) - pdf document
03.13.06 Personal Perspective: Child Labor Beneath Our Feet - by Louis Freedberg, SFGate (featuring Rugmark)
02.28.06 Base of the Pyramid: Sustainable Business From the Bottom Up, by Robert S. Katz, GreenBiz.com (featuring Martin Fisher and Nick Moon of KickStart)
01.30.06 Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech, and his son Jimmy describe their experiences at the World Economic Forum
01.28.06 Davos Diary: Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director of Witness, reports from the World Economic Forum
01.19.06 Business skills solving social ills - by Guy Robarts, BBC News (featuring Kailash Satyarthi of Rugmark and The New Heroes)
01.08.06 Taking An Offbeat Approach - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (featuring Bill Strickland of Manchester Bidwell Corp.)
12.01.05 Victoria Hale, Executive of the Year: Big Pharmas Don’t Make Many of the Drugs That Could Save Lives in Poor Countries, so Hale Figured She Would – Esquire (fee charged to read entire article)
11.24.05 An Expert on Boomers, In His Prime - Chronicle Of Philanthropy (featuring Marc Freedman of Civic Ventures)
10.31.05 America's Best Leaders- U.S. News and World Report (featuring Bill Drayton)
09.13.05 Martin Burt Bridges the Gap Between ‘Haves’ and ‘Have-Nots’
09.01.05 Web Site for Donors Receives Big Grants - by Nicole Wallace, Chronicle of Philanthropy (featuring Global Giving)
09.01.05 What One Man Can Do - Inc. Magazine (featuring Bill Strickland of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild)
08.21.05 The Coffee Window - Time Magazine by Deirdre Van Dyk (featuring William Foote of EcoLogic Finance)
08.19.05 Private Sector Mercy - New York Times (written by Victoria Hale, founder and CEO of Institute for OneWorld Health)
08.17.05 A Subject for Those Who Want to Make a Difference - New York Times (featuring Greg Dees)
07.21.05 Eric Schwartz Makes After-School Time Count (featuring Eric Schwarz of Citizen Schools)
07.15.05 Books Ripped Up, Fed to Online Library for the Blind - SFGate.com (featuring Jim Fruchterman of Benetech)
06.17.05 Boomers Want to Aid Others: Survey Finds They Envision Retirement Jobs That Do Good - SFGate.com (featuring Civic Ventures)
05.23.05 U.S. Treasury Awards Lenders for Community Development $25 Million Allocation of New Markets Tax Credits
04.14.05 Hale and Healthy: A New Way of Developing Drugs for Neglected Diseases of the Poor World - The Economist (featuring Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health)
04.04.05 Rugmark Receives Award for Social Entrepreneurship - Home Furnishings News
03.08.05 Social Visionaries Appointed as Visiting Fellows of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School
01.17.05 Making Databases Work for Clients: College Park Firm Tames Information - Washington Post (featuring GuideStar)
11.11.04 Navigating College Admissions - USA Today (featuring JB Schramm of College Summit)
11.08.04 Making Social Investments Accountable - HBS Working Knowledge (featuring Brian Trelstad of the Acumen Fund)
11.05.04 The Said Business School Welcomes First Social Entrepreneurship MBAS
10.14.04 Supporters Say Venture Philanthropy Still Thrives, Even if Reach is Limited - Chronicle of Philanthropy (featuring Lee Davis of NESsT)
09.04 Going Better on Good Causes - Latin Finance Magazine (featuring Nicole Etchart of NESsT)
08.23.04 The Aspen Seven - Fortune Magazine (featuring Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the Acumen Fund) (.pdf file)
08.17.04 College for Kids with Average Grades, High Drive - Christian Science Monitor (featuring J.B. Scramm of College Sumit)
06.21.04 Said Business School announces new Skoll Director (.pdf file)
The Health Benefits Squeeze: Implications for Nonprofit Organizations and Those They Serve (.pdf file)
PND Connections (by the Foundation Center) features College Summit is in its “ NPO Spotlight”
Helping Hand: College Summit tries to improve education opportunities for low-income students By Karen Breslau, Newsweek
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