Every year, it presents the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford.
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Peterson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and our own Skoll Global Threats Fund.
Skoll has deep pockets, though, and is passionate about using media to influence change.
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To read my brief reflection from the 2011 Skoll World Forum earlier this year, please click here.
FORBES: A Minute with Jeff Skoll on Technology and Global Social Change
Pivot is a division of Participant Media, founded in 2004 by entrepreneur-philanthropist Jeff Skoll, who helped mastermind eBay.
Throughout this week, visit Impact magazine online and the Skoll World Forum to read this special issue.
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The event was powerful and lays out some important issues to frame the upcoming Skoll World Forum at Oxford.
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This article was published in advance of the 2013 Skoll World Forum.
In 1999 the Canadian billionaire launched the Skoll Foundation, which funds entrepreneurs who run businesses that address social change.
In this post, Ken Moriyama, an MPP student at the University of Oxford, reports from the Skoll World Forum.
Jeff Skoll was the first full-time employee and first President of eBay .
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Sylvia Lee leads the water program at the Skoll Global Threats Fund.
America's largest landowner Ted Turner and eBay 's former president Jeff Skoll have used their fortunes to influence eco-culture.
While impressive, Skoll is also a member of a far more exclusive club.
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Skoll was the executive producer of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on the fearsome ramifications of global warming.
After establishing the eBay Foundation in 1998, Skoll launched the eponymous Skoll Foundation in 1999 upon his departure from the company.
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Skoll, a longtime member of the Forbes Billionaires list, joined the Forbes 400 this fall after attaining American citizenship.
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This piece was published in partnership with the Skoll World Forum.
This article was published in partnership with the Skoll World Forum.
He set up the Skoll Foundation a year after eBay went public.
In 2011, we launched Everyone Forever at the Skoll World Forum.
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This article was published as part of a special series for World Health Day and in advance of the 2013 Skoll World Forum.
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This week, I am in Oxford, England at the 2013 Skoll World Forum, a gathering of nearly 1, 000 influential social entrepreneurs and thought leaders.
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Jeff Skoll, the first president and full-time employee of eBay, is doing for social entrepreneurship what Bill Gates has done for global public health.
This article was originally written for the Skoll World Forum.
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The movie came from former eBay head Jeff Skoll's Participant Media, which is the company behind such high-brow documentaries as An Inconvenient Truth and Food, Inc.
Google ( GOOG - news - people )'s philanthropic arm, Google.org, and the Skoll Foundation to expand his virus-hunting work into new countries.
During the Skoll Forum, I will have the pleasure of introducing three of these First Mover Fellows: a financial expert, an engineer and a corporate strategist.
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