Meet the recipients of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, the women (and man) who are building a more just and equitable world. Via @NPR: #SkollWF
Advice From Five Women And A Guy Who Won $1.25 Million Dollars To Do Good
The winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship share surprising lessons on life, leadership and gender in the workplace.
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"Health is a human right. And yet in every city and village in every country around the world, there is someone struggling to live their fullest life because they can’t access the healthcare they deserve," Barbara Bush of @ghcorps told us at #SkollWF: https://t.co/oFSnFuAG2q
.@devex and @Camfed sat down at this year's #SkollWF to discuss the power of #proximity and how becoming proximate to people and challenges can bring about understanding, empathy, and innovative solutions. 🎧Listen here:
Long Story Short #11: Power, proximity and development donorship
The Skoll World Forum brought about tough questions for donors -- including what it means to be truly collaborative. Camfed Africa Executive Director ...
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Ready for a little #goodnews pick-me-up? Restore your faith in humanity with the stories of @angazadesign @callisto @codeforamerica @ghcorps @myAgroFarms & @SELCOFoundation from this year's #SkollWF via @GroundTruth
Restore your faith in humanity with these stories from the Skoll World Forum | The GroundTruth Project
“Shutting ourselves off from those we see as other erodes our humanity.” —Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation OXFORD...
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“It was like a dream to us,” says Lilian. She says the people in her community never thought they would have #safewater. https://t.co/ZwTSeE5y5S
One of the major questions from #SkollWF: How do issues like climate change and human rights affect women across the world? See how organizations like @INBreakthrough @Camfed & @Illaramatak are bringing solutions to advance women's rights.
From child marriage to climate change â how NGOs tackle gender inequality
Issues such as education and sexual violence impact on the basic human rights of young women around the world. Several organisations, speaking recentl...
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At #SkollWF, @IDEO Managing Director @f_dust laid out a basic choice for how we engage with #storytelling: We can go it alone as individuals, or we can co-create, and we can make things together.
Skoll Awardee and environmentalist Ma Jun, who leads the Institute of Environmental and Public Affairs, was named as one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders of 2018 by @FortuneMagazine for his work to end air pollution in China! https://t.co/YwUuYM1u2d
Can’t think of a better way to start my morning. #Nepal now has yet another @RoomtoRead library. This one is super-special to me as dedicated in my father’s memory. #RIPWoody
Five of the six 2018 Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship are women, which brings up the question: Do women bring special skills or sensibilities to the world of social entrepreneurship? The awardees weighed in on @NPR.
Advice From 5 Women And A Guy Who Won $1.25 Million To Do Good
The winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship share surprising lessons on life, leadership and gender in the workplace.
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The winners of the @SkollFoundation Awards for Social Entrepreneurship bring ingenuity, compassion & empathy to their entrepreneurial endeavors. Read advice from these 5 women (and 1 man): via @NPRGoatsandSoda
Advice From 5 Women And A Guy Who Won $1.25 Million To Do Good
The winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship share surprising lessons on life, leadership and gender in the workplace.
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Alinafe Kasiya, a deputy country director in Malawi with Seattle-based medical charity and Skoll Awardee @VillageReach spoke for many at #SkollWF when he noted that “the strength of our partnerships will define our success.”
Bright ideas don't always sell, and being headstrong won't help
Skoll World Forum entrepreneur says he erred by assuming his technology would sell itself. 'That's the Silicon Valley mindset' — but he was in Afric...
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What if government actually worked better for people in the 21st century? @pahlkadot and @codeforamerica are making this a reality by transforming the intersection of government and #tech #SkollWF
Hungry for stories about the ways people connect across fractures that divide societies? Tune into @BBCNews this week for #CrossingDivides
Crossing Divides - BBC News
A week of coverage by BBC News examining how people are creating connections in a polarised world.
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In a remote corner of Ecuador, meet a community that is protecting the Amazonian rivers through its solar-powered canoe🛶 Learn more in the first installment of @bbcworldservice's new series about #climatechange. #BBCTakingtheTemperature
The Amazon’s solar-powered river bus
How can you create public transport in the jungle without polluting it? The isolated Achuar peoples of Ecuador have created an ingenious solution.
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