How the Skoll Foundation Is Evolving Philanthropy for Collective Action [Video]

myAgro, a Skoll Awardee, helps thousands of small farmers, like this one in Senegal, afford seeds for their crops, as well as provides training and other tools.

This year marks 25 years of the Skoll Foundation investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and innovators who have generated solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Five years ago, we set out to evolve our strategy, inspired by founder Jeff Skoll’s concern that the existential threats facing the planet—from climate to pandemics to injustice—were getting worse.

As we conducted a listening tour of our community, the call to action became clear: We needed to figure out how to align the scale and speed of innovative solutions with the scale and speed of mounting global challenges.

We heard the community’s concerns that social innovators working to change whole systems need more opportunities to collaborate long-term with each other, philanthropists, and …

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