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Skoll Foundation News - 2005

12.21.05 Press Release: Registration Begins for 2006 Skoll World Forum

12.01.05 Press Release: Social Edge and Santa Clara University Partner to Select 10 Candidates Who Will Attend the Summer 2006 Session of the Global Social Business Incubator for Free

10.09.05 The New Heroes - Here On Earth (podcast)

10.05.05 Press Release: Skoll Foundation Announces Two New Appointments: Laura Vais and Ed Diener

09.01.05 Skoll Foundation Appoints Victor d'Allant to Lead Social Edge

09.01.05 What One Man Can Do - Inc. Magazine (featuring Bill Strickland)

08.09.05 Silicon Valley 10 Years After Netscape's IPO: Skoll Foundation and Benetech Featured on TV News - KPIX (CBS News) (streaming video)

08.01.05 Listening To Change: A Review of the New Heroes Soundtrack - Sojourners Magazine

07.22.05 Young Entrepreneurs, Making a Difference - Austin American Statesman

07.13.05 Press Release: Richard Fahey Becomes COO of Skoll Foundation

07.06.05 The Music of The New Heroes - Echoes Radio (audio stream)

07.05.05 Press Release: GlobalGiving Serves as Official 'Giving Platform' for Donations to Projects of The New Heroes on PBS

07.05.05 The Music of The New Heroes - NPR

06.05 Role Models of Rigor and Vision: Barbara Kibbe and The Skoll Foundation - Nonprofit Online News Journal

06.28.05 PBS: The New Heroes - Washington Post Transcript

06.28.05 Robert Redford's Heroes - MSNBC

06.28.05 The New Heroes Do Their Work In The Trenches - Sun Sentinel, Jay Bobbin

06.28.05 Here's Your Chance to Join Heroic Work - San Jose Mercury News

06.25.05 The New Heroes, Stories of Social Entrepreneurs - Here On Earth (Wisconsin Public Radio audio stream)

06.24.05 PBS Drive - Wall Street Journal Column About Jeff Skoll and The New Heroes

06.24.05 A World of Economic Do-Gooders - AlterNet

06.24.05 Robert Redford Celebrates Unsung Heroes - Associated Press

06.23.05 Silicon Insider: Social Entrepreneurs - ABC News

06.23.05 Social Activism Sweeps TV with 'New Heroes' Series on PBS - Oakland Tribune

06.22.05 Show and Tell - San Jose Mercury News, Antonucci

06.22.05 In Search Of Heroes - San Jose Mercury News

06.19.05 Build A Better World - Parade Magazine

06.16.05 An Entrepreneur Who Cares - BusinessWeek Online

06.15.05 Jeff Skoll Radio Interview About The New Heroes - KGO Liveline

06.15.05 Jeff Skoll Radio Interview About The New Heroes - Philadelphia Public Radio

06.14.05 Online Grantmaking - Philanthropy Journal

06.14.05 The New Heroes Soundtrack - Midwest Record Recap Electronic Edition, CD Review

06.13.05 Press Release: Skoll Foundation Launches National Grassroots Philanthropy Campaign in Conjunction with PBS Series

06.09.05 Fund Seeks to Draw Attention to 'Social Entrepreneurs' - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

06.06.05 The New Heroes Soundtrack - CDReviews.com

06.01.05 Press Release: The New Heroes hosted by Robert Redford - OPB Press Release (.pdf file)

05.15.05 Giving Back, An Internet Pioneer Invests His Wealth In Humanity - Privilege Magazine

04.25.05 Lily of the Valley: A Redford-Skoll Alliance - Silicon Valley Business Journal

04.18.05 Skoll Foundation and FSG release "Measuring Innovation: Evaluation in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship" report - (pdf file)

04.07.05 West Bank 'Gandhi' Screenings Promote Nonviolence - Reuters (.pdf file)

04.07.05 On a Screen in the West Bank, Gandhi's Message of Nonviolence - New York Times (.pdf file)

04.07.05 Touring Gandhi to Help Palestinians Help Themselves - The Guardian

04.07.05 Gandhi Film plays to Palestinians - BBC

04.06.05 Gandhi in Arabic Screened in West Bank - Newsday.com (.pdf file)

04.05.05 Press Release: Gandhi Project to Launch in the Palestinian Territories Tomorrow

04.04.05 Lily of the Valley: Gandhi's On Board - Silicon Valley Business Journal

03.30.05 Jeff Skoll, Charles Leadbeater, Jake Eberts, Peter Samuelson, Jeff Segal and Isabel Maxwell discuss "Using Popular Media Networks to Drive Social Change in Innovative Ways" at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship." Includes a clip from the Gandhi Project. (streaming video)

03.28.05 Press Release: Hollywood, Business and University Leaders Converge With Social Entrepreneurs at Oxford University

03.21.05 Skoll makes grant to OneWorld - San Jose Business Journal

03.17.05 Press Release: Skoll Foundation Awards $9.5 Million To Nonprofits Around The World In Support Of Social Entrepreneurship

03.03.05 Press Release: Social Edge Gives Inside Look at Global Philanthropy Forum

03.02.05 Press Release: Skoll Foundation Wins Communications Awards

02.05.05 Press Release: Social Entrepreneurship the Missing Plank to Making Poverty History

01.05.05 Press Release: Second Skoll World Forum On Social Entrepreneurship

01.27.05 Press Release: Skoll Foundation Increases Support to Grantees in Response to Tsunami

01.02.05 The Power of One - San Jose Mercury News
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