Tag Archives: Skoll Foundation

Patient and powerful.  Risk and reward.  Necessary and challenging. If you had to summarize partnering with government in just two words, what would they be? Leaders of social ventures Build Change, VillageReach, and TriCiclos shared the words above during a …

Introducing “Leveraging Government Partnerships for Scaled Impact,” the Latest Theme Study From Scaling Pathways Social enterprises driving toward systems change must undertake various partnerships along the way.  The one partnership most reported as being key to the ability to achieve …

What Successful Social Enterprises Want You to Know… Googling “social enterprise” calls up over 20 million results. Indeed, there are hundreds of thousands of new ideas for mission-driven ventures emerging around the world. And there are some notable social enterprises …

Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, is an expert on social entrepreneurship, has led ground-breaking work with the Skoll Foundation since 2001, and is co-author of “Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works.”  We’ve captured key insights …

This post was originally published on the Fuqua in Latin America blog. You can read the original post here. A goal of Fuqua’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship is understanding how social ventures can move from idea to …

Four years ago, the Innovation Investment Alliance, a funding and learning partnership between the Skoll Foundation and U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Development Lab, with support from Mercy Corps, committed to investing $44.5 million in social enterprises across the …

While there is no single path for scaling social impact, we’ve learned many lessons about what works and what does not: How critical is local adaptation? What can social enterprises do to remain focused on what matters most? Why might …

For the past 15 years, CASE has been exploring this question: How do social entrepreneurs leap the chasm from idea to sustainable impact at scale? Now, as part of that research, CASE has partnered with Mercy Corps, USAID and the …

At CASE we often talk about our three core areas of activity – Education, Field Building, and Research. By conducting work in these three areas, we aim to continue to build the field of social entrepreneurship and prepare leaders and …