At the recent fourth annual Skoll World Forum, leaders in social entrepreneurship from around the world gathered at the University of Oxford's Said Business School.
They brought with them touching human stories from the field, ideas about innovation in programming and finance, and seemingly boundless optimism about fomenting social change.
Through his foundation and the Skoll Centre at Oxford, eBay billionaire Jeff Skoll has emerged as the leading light of the social entrepreneurship movement, which began as early as the 1980s, when technically savvy entrepreneurial types first sought to bring their brand of disruptive change to the world's problems.
Skoll may be best known these days as the man who financed An Inconvenient Truth, and indeed he referred to the film and to Oscar winner (and Nobel nominee) Al Gore during remarks under the dome of Christopher Wren's 17th century Sheldonian hall at Oxford.
Skoll said that this "is a changing time for philanthropy," and that much of the focus these days is on bringing business practices to philanthropy.
[Excerpt from The Huffington Post]
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