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	Entrepreneur with a mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Skoll's enthusiasm for philanthropy is a distinct contrast to many entrepreneurs who hit the jackpot during the dot-com boom.
		Skoll, a Montreal native who graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto before heading to the Silicon Valley, is focusing his philanthropic efforts on two areas: supporting entrepreneurs strategically and financially, and attracting media attention to their success.
		Skoll said his interest in philanthropy started at a young age when he realized that many of the world's problems such as war, famine and crime were caused by the gap between the haves and have-nots.
	www.canada.com /technology/story.html?id=%7B7ECA6CFC-F632-4804-B964-B591DB6956FE%7D (566 words)

	Norse mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arvak and Alsvid, Auðumbla, Blóðughófi, Eikþyrnir, Fenrisulfr, Garm, Geri and Freki, Grani, Gullinbursti, Gullinkambi, Gulltopp, Hati, Heiðrún, Hildisvíni, Hófvarpnir, Hræsvelgr, Hrímfaxi, Hugin and Munin, Jörmungandr, Lindorm, Mánagarmr, Níðhöggr, Ratatosk, Skinfaxi, Skoll, Sleipnir, Svadilfari, Sæhrímnir, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, Werewolf, Veðrfölnir
		This passage is known as Alfrodull, meaning "glory of elves," which in turn was a common kenning for the sun.
		It is fated that Skoll will eventually catch Sol and eat her; however, she will be replaced by her daughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norse_mythology (4174 words)

	Engology.com, Engineer Jeff Skoll Vice-President and Co-founder of eBay, Professional/Chartered Engineering, Women in ...
		Skoll serves as chairman of the Skoll Foundation and plays a critical role in continually building the foundation, which ranks in the top tier of foundations nationally.
		Skoll was identified by Business Week as one of the most innovative philanthropists of the past decade.
		Through the Skoll Foundation, I now have a chance to make a difference in that equation, and we are working with some of the greatest entrepreneurs in the non-profit world to make the world a better place.
	www.engology.com /eng5skoll.htm (2687 words)

	Merging movies and activism
		With something like $3.5 billion in his bank account, Skoll, 40, is eager to spend some of the money using the power of cinematic storytelling to stimulate involvement in social issues.
		Skoll's focus on socially relevant films has made him a popular figure in a town where everyone has a passion project looking for a backer.
		But Skoll begs to differ, saying he is a "centrist" who would be open to making films that speak to conservative filmgoers.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1119activism11119.html (1243 words)

	Monsters
		Skoll and Hati were two giant wolves that pursued two heavenly bodies – Sol (Sun) and Moon.
		Skoll and Hati were descendants of the troll-wives or giantesses known as the Iarnvidiur.
		One of the signs of the coming of Ragnarök was that Skoll would devour the goddess Sol, and Hati would swallow Moon.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/monsters.html (1111 words)

	The Skoll Foundation \| About Skoll Foundation \| About Skoll Foundation
		The Skoll Foundation was created by Jeff Skoll in 1999 to pursue his vision of a world where all people, regardless of geography, background or economic status, enjoy and employ the full range of their talents and abilities.
		Skoll, who was the first employee and first President of eBay, believes that strategic investments in the right people can lead to lasting social change.
		The Skoll Foundation connects social entrepreneurs with key people and resources through a number of academic, business and community channels which serve to advance the work of individual entrepreneurs, as well as the field of social entrepreneurship as a whole.
	www.skollfoundation.org /aboutskoll/index.asp (681 words)

	U of T Magazine Autumn 1999 -- Trading Up
		Safwat Zaky, chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering and Skoll's fourth-year project supervisor, is not surprised that he has thrived in the business world.
		Skoll relinquished the title of president last year to become vice-president of strategic planning and analysis, which allows him more time for business development.
		The plan is the culmination of something Skoll has been thinking about since he graduated and pursued a career as an entrepreneur in the high-tech industry.
	www.magazine.utoronto.ca /99autumn/f04.htm (832 words)

	Skoll Foundation Awards $9.5 Million to Nonprofits Around the World in Support of Social Entrepreneurship
		The competitive SASE awards will be presented on March 31 at the second annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University in England, where some of the world's leading practitioners and thought leaders in social entrepreneurship will convene to set the future agenda for visionaries who want to transform society.
		It is based on the Skoll Foundation's belief that a healthy social sector ecosystem is critical to the success of social entrepreneurs.
		The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change benefiting communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs, who are individuals dedicated to creating new solutions that result in lasting improvements to complex social problems.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-17-2005/0003204880&EDATE= (1046 words)

	Skoll Foundation Awards $16 Million to Nonprofits Around the World in Support of Social Entrepreneurship
		The Skoll Awards are designed to advance solutions to critical social challenges of our time and recognize programs effecting positive and measurable change in six issue categories: tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, economic and social equity, institutional responsibility, and peace and security.
		The organizations receiving three-year 2006 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship through the open competition have all proved effective at a local or regional scale and are poised to expand to a national or multinational scale.
		The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs -- individuals dedicated to pioneering new solutions that result in lasting improvements to complex social problems.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-14-2006/0004319579&EDATE= (1772 words)

	Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA Program - Program Overview
		Students who apply and are admitted to the Skoll Program before completing their third year of engineering will begin their 16-month PEY (unless they have already completed a PEY between second year and third year of engineering).
		Students who apply and are admitted to the Skoll Program while on a PEY will simply return to the fall term of the fourth year of engineering after completing their PEY.
		Skoll students then leave for an eight-month management internship (the MEY) over the winter term of fourth year and the following summer term.
	www.rotman.utoronto.ca /skoll/overview.htm (656 words)

	Participant Productions : Jeff Skoll
		Skoll's vision for Participant is to create a longterm, independent, sustainable media company focused on the public interest.
		In five short years, Skoll and the foundation have emerged as social sector leaders; in 2002 through 2005, Skoll was recognized as one of today's most innovative philanthropists by Business Week, and he is frequently cited for his leadership in advancing the work and field of social entrepreneurship.
		Skoll also serves on the Board of Directors for the eBay Foundation, the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, among others.
	www.participantproductions.com /company/Executives/19/JeffSkoll (499 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Hollywood's new politics
		Skoll, who turns 41 next week, grew up in Montreal and Toronto, the son of an industrial chemicals salesman.
		Skoll, universally said to be earnest, boyish, shy, thoughtful and down-to-earth, has, by his own reckoning, wanted to change the world since he was 14.
		In a move that cleverly removes him from the knee-jerk backlash against Hollywood lefties, he has said that, although he is Canadian and therefore doesn't vote in America, had he been a US citizen he would have voted for Reagan, and for Bush Sr as well as for Bill Clinton.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1681362,00.html (2286 words)

	USNews.com: Jeff Skoll: Social redeemer
		But Jeff Skoll is trying to change that image of Hollywood as the source of pretty but meaningless drivel.
		Skoll's Participant Productions is releasing a number of feature films in coming months, each with the modest goal of changing the world.
		Skoll, after all, was the first employee and first president of eBay.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/biztech/articles/051107/7eespotlight.htm?track=rss (464 words)

	Jeff Skoll
		Jeff Skoll is eBay's first full-time employee and first President, creating the business plan that the company still follows.
		He serves as Chairman of the Skoll Foundation and continues to build the foundation, which tripled in size in the 4 years since the Foundations founding.
		Jeff Skoll is also a member of the Advisory Boards of Stanford Business School and the Community Foundation Silicon Valley, a charitable organization based in San Jose.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/skoll_jeff.htm (523 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Microsite \| Skoll backs social business school
		When Jeff Skoll donated $7.5m (£4.2m) to the Said Business School at Oxford University last year to create a centre for social entrepreneurship, he raised the profile of a hitherto little-known activity - running a business that trades for a social purpose.
		Skoll, 39, the former president of the online auction site eBay and founder and chairman of the $300m Skoll Foundation, says the failure of conventional business and politics to tackle social ills is making social enterprise an attractive option.
		Skoll is ranked by Forbes Magazine as the third wealthiest person under 40 in the US, with an estimated $4.69bn fortune.
	www.guardian.co.uk /prius/partthree/story/0,,1322049,00.html (243 words)

	Skoll puts politics in spotlight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As important as the boxoffice and cultural impact of such movies are to Skoll, so is the "social campaign alongside each film with our social-sector partners, like the National Organization for Women," he said over lunch at the restaurant Zoom.
		Skoll said that he would have liked to have been able to help Don Cheadle last year when the actor was speaking out on behalf of Rwanda after the release of "Hotel Rwanda." "He was a one-man band," he said.
		Skoll only became interested in "The World According to Sesame Street" when he realized it was about more than just the show itself but about the PBS series' impact on children around the globe.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/sundance/news_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001884410 (661 words)

	Untitled Document
		In 1999 he launched his own vehicle, the Skoll Foundation—which he has steadily built to the point that today, with about $110 million in endowment, it ranks among the top 1% of foundations in the U.S., with the focus on high-leverage economic and educational opportunities for deeply disadvantaged communities.
		Skoll’s $5 million gift to the University of Toronto, his alma mater, will help endow a unique joint engineering-M.B.A. degree program that the university has named in his honor.
		Tellingly, the images on the home page of his foundation’s website don’t celebrate Skoll personally but focus on images of what empowerment unleashes in the human spirit: proud people, radiant with their accomplishments.
	www.approtec.org /time_article.shtml (630 words)

	Managing PSA Challenges with Model-driven Skoll
		The cornerstone of Skoll is its formal model of a DCQA process's configuration space, which captures the valid configurations for QA subtasks.
		Skoll uses this configuration space model to plan global QA processes, adapt processes dynamically, and aid in analyzing and interpreting results.
		Skoll applies various model-driven tools that raise the level of abstraction and reduce the accidental complexity of dealing with Skoll's internal formats.
	www.cs.wustl.edu /~schmidt/terry/node6.html (566 words)

	ABC News: Nice Guys Can Finish First
		That trusting philosophy made Skoll enough money to be a big player in Hollywood, but his heart is also in another kind of moviemaking.
		Skoll was moved by the impact the program appears to be having on the kids involved.
		Skoll said, "When I was 14 or 15, my dad, who was a very hard-working guy, came home one day and announced that he had cancer.
	abcnews.go.com /2020/Business/story?id=1362782 (1215 words)

	TIME.com: Movies with a Message -- Dec. 19, 2005 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These days Skoll's primary objective is not to make money but rather to spend what he has pursuing such lofty ideals as government accountability and social and economic justice.
		But when Skoll opened Participant Productions in January 2004 and announced his intention to cure what ails the world through film, even his greatest admirers predicted the billionaire would soon be downsizing to a mere millionaire.
		Skoll, who sees Participant as a way to straddle the line between business and philanthropy, is encouraged by the track record of other movies with a message that have achieved commercial success, such as Schindler's List, Gandhi and Hotel Rwanda.
	www.time.com /time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1139849,00.html (760 words)

	Skoll Foundation Awards GlobalGiving Million-Dollar Grant to Grow the Int'l Development Market \| GlobalGiving
		The $1 million grant to GlobalGiving is part of the Skoll Foundation's efforts to create an infrastructure that supports the work of social entrepreneurs around the world.
		Through such grants, the Skoll Foundation, created by Jeff Skoll, the first employee and President of eBay, hopes that new models of capitalizing the social sector are adopted, enabling more people with world-changing ideas to access the capital they need to be successful.
		Its vision is to live in a world of peace and prosperity where all people, regardless of geography, background, or economic status, enjoy and employ the full range of their talents and abilities.
	www.globalgiving.com /aboutus/press/skoll.html (538 words)

	Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA Program - Jeffrey Skoll
		Among the Skoll Foundation’s initiatives are three award programs, an online community called Social Edge at, a four-part public television documentary on social entrepreneurs called “The New Heroes” and the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at the newly established Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School, Oxford University, England.
		Skoll’s gift of CAN$7.5 million to the University of Toronto endowed three chairs and established the Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA Program in 2000, a joint program of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and the Rotman School of Management.
		Skoll directs his investment group and leads a venture in Hollywood to produce feature films highlighting social entrepreneurs who overcome the injustice of social inequity.
	www.mgmt.utoronto.ca /skoll/skoll.htm (330 words)

	EBay's first employee turns to good works
		Now Skoll, EBay's first employee and president, is spending millions of dollars encouraging people to use their entrepreneurial skills to improve society rather than build their bank accounts.
		Skoll cited the case of Martin Fisher, a nonprofit veteran who helped start an organization called ApproTEC to help import so-called appropriate technology into East Africa, including water pumps to help poor farmers irrigate their land.
		Skoll, whose EBay stake is worth $3.5 billion, plans to pour $1 billion into the foundation during the next 10 years.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/20/BUGEI363531.DTL (381 words)

	Headshift :: Report on the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship
		The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship took place last week at the Saïd Business School in Oxford, and was a great success thanks to the professionalism of the organisers, the support of the Skoll Foundation and, most importantly, the passion of the participants.
		But the Skoll forum was particularly refreshing in that it demonstrated how a strong desire to create social value can mobilise such a powerful network, compared to the self-serving culture of the popularity contest that is sometimes a feature of the blogosphere.
		Jeff Skoll is trying to involve Hollywood and big media in supporting social enterprise, which is why Sir Ben Kingsley was there, and also why the Skoll Foundation has sponsored the release of a series of TV shows called New Heroes that tells the stories of social entrepreneurs and their impact.
	www.headshift.com /archives/002457.cfm (2020 words)

	Oxford SaÃ¯d Business School: Skoll Scholarships
		To be considered for a Skoll Scholarship, you need only state your interest in the "Scholarships" section of the MBA application form.
		Skoll Scholarships are awarded as soon as suitable candidates are identified, so you are encouraged to apply early.
		The Skoll Centre wants to provide educational opportunities to a diverse range of social entrepreneurs, including those from poor or marginalized communities, or those who are putting their time into a social venture at significant personal cost.
	www.sbs.ox.ac.uk /skoll/mba/Skoll+Scholarships.htm (770 words)

	Jeffrey Skoll BASc/MBA Program - Curriculum
		Skoll students will later augment this management experience with a summer management placement between their first and second MBA years.
		These will normally be engineering courses, but under special circumstances the Engineering Program Counselor and the Director, Skoll Program, may permit a student to take a management course to meet this requirement, especially if the management course is related to technology, finance, or some other technically challenging subject.
		This graduate level "capstone" course is unique to the Skoll Program and permits Skoll students to work together to study the mutual interdependence between engineering, technology, and management.
	www.mgmt.utoronto.ca /skoll/curriculum.htm (686 words)

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