Sustaining the Social Good

The Skoll Foundation has recently released a short film about social entrepreneurship. Its an inspiring overview of the progress made over the last three decades. It starts with Mohammad Yunus and includes interviews with a number of social entrepreneurs and others in the field, including Sally Osberg of the Skoll Foundation, Bill Drayton of Ashoka, Jacqueline Novogratz of the Acumen Fund, John Elkington of Volans, and author David Bornstein.

Our own John and Susan Collin Marks are Skoll Foundation Fellows, recognized for their innovative contributions to peace and security through social entrepreneurship.

The culture of entrepreneurship is one that goes beyond the founding of Search and into the work we do around the world as well as the culture within which our staff operate. The creative lens through which we view challenges has resulted in innovative thinking about how to engage young people, get feuding groups to see one another’s perspectives, and ambitious attempts to actually shift people’s attitudes and behaviors.   All of this is done, with an eye for sustainability so that as a result of our work, more social entrepreneurs are born!