2010 Skoll Awards For Social Entrepreneurship
Video Description
At the 2010 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, listen as each awardee gives a short, inspirational acceptance speech. Awardee Marc Freedman of Civic Ventures talks about going from aspiration to action in this speech at the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. Later, Michael Jenkins of Forest Trends, Carlos Souza Jr and Adalberto Verissimo of Imazon, Andrew Youn of One Acre Fund, Scott Gilmore of Peace Dividend Trust, Molly Melching of Tostan, and Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto and Silverius Oscar Unggul of Telepak accept their awards in this video.
Speakers
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Scott Gilmore is a writer, investor, and entrepreneur. He is President of Anchor Chain which sets up, turns around, or transforms complicated projects. Recent examples of that work include launching a global philanthropic campaign and organizing the deployment of Starlink terminals into Ukraine.
Scott founded Building Markets, a social enterprise that creates jobs by connecting local entrepreneurs to global markets. Prior to this he was as a diplomat specializing in conflict zones and opened Canada’s first embassy in Afghanistan. Scott worked for the UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor and established the new nation’s national intelligence agency.
Scott was given the EY Social Entrepreneur of the Year award, was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, and was a Skoll Awardee. President Obama awarded him the G20 Prize for innovation in impact investing. The WEF has honored him as a Young Global Leader, and he is a Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Ashoka Foundation
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please use previous bio that i have submitted to skoll for the forum
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Carlos Souza Jr. got a bachelor's degree in geology from the Pará State Federal University, Brazil, an M.Sc. in soil science from Penn State University, US, and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara, US. Dr. Souza Jr. is an associate researcher at Imazon, focusing on remote sensing for mapping and monitoring forests, forest degradation, land use and land cover change, surface water monitoring, and spatial modeling. He has (co)-authored +100 journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. He co-founded Terras App, an IT company that provides solutions for sustainable landscapes, and the MapBiomas Institute, IAMap. Dr. Souza Jr. is a Skoll Awardee and a Mulago Foundation Fellow.
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Onte is co-Founder and President Telapak, Skoll Awardee 2010. Onte lead Telapak to build community-based and sustainable Business by set up inclusive companies on Forestry, Waste Management and Marine Issues. Now, Onte serve Indonesian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) as a Vice Chairman for Environment and Forestry. This is the first time ever, Social Enterpreneur lead Forestry and Environmet sector in KADIN.
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CEO, OneSun, Solar
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. His books have been published in over 50 countries and 27 languages. They include The Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism, and Blessed Unrest. He is CEO of OneSun, Solar.
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Marc Freedman is Founder and Co-CEO of CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org). He is the author of five books, including most recently, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations. He co-founded Experience Corps to mobilize people over 50 to improve the prospects of low-income elementary school, and the Purpose Prize, an annual award for social innovators in the second half of life (Both Experience Corps and the Purpose Prize are now programs of AARP). Freedman is an Ashoka Senior Fellow; was named a Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum; and is a Skoll Awardee. A former visiting fellow at Stanford University, King’s College, London, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, he holds an MBA from Yale University. He lives with his wife and three children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The rate of unsustainable environmental practices is one of the highest in Indonesia. Telapak came into existence in response to the rise of illegal logging activities and the depletion of marine life. The lack of education and awareness of environmental issues have been draining the country of its natural resources since its colonial days. Concessions exploit the land and some businesses use bribery and other illicit means to gain permits. When Telapak first started, there was no effective monitoring mechanism to oversee the quota system for the harvesting of timber, coral and fishing. Indigenous people living near these natural resources were also under conflict with large companies over land and resource rights. In response to these issues, Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto, Silverius Oscar Unggul and four other friends started Telapak.
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As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg partnered with Jeff Skoll to build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of the world’s most pressing problems and developed innovative platforms for connecting civil society, government and private sector leaders with societal problem solvers. Among these platforms are the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and the Sundance Institute’s “Stories of Change” initiative.
In 2015, Sally and Roger Martin published Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, which articulates a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and distills lessons for practitioners, academics and impact investors. Her thought pieces have appeared in leading social impact and business journals and books; in 2015, she and Roger Martin were honored by Thinkers 50 for their intellectual leadership in the field of social enterprise.
Prior to joining Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation, Sally served as the founding Executive Director for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, a pioneering institution in the field.
Sally currently serves as the Chair of the Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education in Africa) USA Foundation, on the Philanthropy Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada, on the Advisory Council of the Elders, as Vice Chair of the Social Progress Imperative and as a board director for New America and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School of Oxford University.
She received her M.A. in English and American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Molly is the Founder & Creative Director of Tostan, an NGO which implements a holistic, 3-year empowering education program in national languages that has engaged over 2,500 rural African communities in democracy, human rights, health, literacy, & project management skills. The program has led to over 20,000 rural women holding leadership posts & over 9,000 communities in 8 African countries publicly declaring their commitment to abandon harmful traditional practices. Tostan has received international recognition for their successful work including: The Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Prize, The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, The Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice & Human Rights & UNESCO’s King Sejong Literacy Prize. Prize. A New York Times best-selling book by Aimee Molloy, However Long the Night, vividly relates Molly and Tostan's story. They are also featured in Melinda Gates's book, Moment of Lift and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s: The Book of Gutsy Women.
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Musician,
Jimmy and Donnie Demers performed at the Skoll World Forum 2010.
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Founder & Chairman, Jeff Skoll Group
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Skoll Foundation
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Participant Media
Founder of Capricorn Investment Group
Co-founder and GP of the RISE Fund
First fulltime employee and President of eBay
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Beto Veríssimo is a co-founder of Imazon, a think-and-do tank organization based in the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1990. He holds a master degree in Ecology from The Pennsylvania State University (USA) and graduate degree in Agriculture Engineer from the Federal Rural University of the Brazilian Amazon. His work has helped created about 25 million hectares of Conservation Units in the Brazilian Amazon and support forest management for more than 7 million hectares. In the last years he has work on different strategies to reduce the level of deforestation and forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. He received several awards including 2010 the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2015 he received the Brazilian Award on conservation by Globo Newspaper. He is also co-founder of Amazon Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Affiliated Scholar, Brazil Lab at Princeton University.
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Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s poor are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers in East Africa. One Acre Fund has 9,000 full-time staff who serve 1,600,000+ families per year, plus 2,000,000+ more families through partnerships across 9 African countries. Andrew graduated from Yale, is a former management consultant at Oliver Wyman, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
