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Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship FACT SHEET Overview

Source: www.skollfoundation.org
Topic: Entrepreneurship

Sort Desciption: Funding for the Skoll Centre for Entrepreneurship will help underwrite: ... The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The first ...

Content Inside: Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship FACT SHEET Overview The Skoll Foundation a Silicon Valley-based organization founded to advance positive social change by investing in social entrepreneurs is partnering with the Sad Business School at Oxford University to launch the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Using a grant provided by the Skoll Foundation the Sad Business School will fully integrate social entrepreneurship into its Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree program. The objective of the Skoll Centre is to advance knowledge about and effective practice of social entrepreneurship on a global scale through an international educational institution. Funding $7.5 million (U.S.) The Skoll Centre Funding for the Skoll Centre for Entrepreneurship will help underwrite: Five annual scholarships to qualified Skoll Scholars Rigorous research into effective social change A directorship for the Skoll Centre An endowed lectureship in social entrepreneurship The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The first World Forum is scheduled to take place in March 2004. About Social Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurs apply the best of entrepreneurial business practices to effect sustainable positive social change. Just as entrepreneurs define new approaches to business social entrepreneurs act as agents of social change identifying opportunities others miss refining existing social systems and creating sustainable solutions to improve specific segments of society. Where business leaders reap profits social entrepreneurs are motivated by opportunities to meet societys needs; they create and promote new and better ways to address problems and ultimately effect permanent social change. About the Skoll Foundation Headquartered in Californias Silicon Valley the Skoll Foundation was created in 1999 by Jeff Skoll the first employee and first president of eBay. Its mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the worl ...

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