Global Zero Summit at Reagan Library Talks Nuclear Disarmament
The Skoll family of organizations had good representation at the Global Zero Summit last week at the Reagan Presidential Library, with Jeff Skoll participating on a panel on the costs of nuclear...
View ArticleFaith Communities and Global Threats
One of the shorthands we use when looking at global threats here at the Skoll Global Threats Fund is that they are caused in part by “too many people living unconsciously.” We don’t work on the...
View ArticleTalking Nuclear Safety and the Upcoming Nuclear Security Summit
This video highlights the leaders of two Skoll Global Threats Fund grantees, the Ploughshares Fund and the Fissile Materials Working Group, talking about the risk of nuclear terrorism and the...
View ArticleSkoll World Forum Kicks Off
The Skoll World Forum, the signature event of the Skoll Foundation and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, kicks off today in Oxford. Visit the site for details on the program, including what...
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Global Threats at the Skoll World Forum
Our president, Larry Brilliant, hosted a panel here at the Skoll World Forum yesterday focused on the big global challenges we face today – climate, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, et alia – and why...
View ArticleVideo: Skoll World Forum Panel on Catastrophic Risks
Watch below the panel on catastrophic risk from the recent Skoll World Forum moderated by our president, Larry Brilliant. It’s a far-ranging, insightful discussion of why we, as humanity, are finding...
View ArticleGlobal Zero’s New Video on Nuclear Disarmament
Global Zero, which the Skoll Global Threats Fund supports, has created a compelling video, narrated by Michael Douglas, urging people to join the movement to eliminate nuclear weapons over the next two...
View ArticleDemanding Zero Nuclear Weapons
Global Zero has a compelling new video out using the power of celebrity to highlight the need for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Watch it here:
View ArticleLarry Brilliant Talks Global Threats at the Pentagon
Our Larry Brilliant spoke at the Pentagon last week on global threats, outlining the interconnections between multiple threats and the need for a systems perspective in considering solutions. You can...
View ArticleJeff Skoll on Philanthropy on 60 Minutes
Jeff Skoll is featured in a November 17 CBS 60 Minutes segment on philanthropy, which focuses on the Giving Pledge. Watch it below.
View ArticleJeff Skoll on the Colbert Report
Jeff Skoll appeared on the Colbert Report to talk about his film work and social change. You can watch it here.
View ArticleEncouraging New Ideas in the Nuclear Sphere
We, together with the Hewlett Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, MacArthur Foundation, and Ploughshares Fund, are putting in motion a new effort to bring positive disruption to the arena of nuclear...
View ArticleReinventing Nuclear Security
The Skoll Global Threats Fund is supporting the upcoming Reinvent Nuclear Security series of virtual roundtables. This is being driven by N Square, a new collaborative that we’ve helped stand up with...
View ArticleRecap: Reinventing Nuclear Security Session on Technologies
The recent kickoff session of the new Reinventors Network series on rethinking nuclear security we’re helping support through N Square has now been summarized in an 11-minute recap video. The session...
View ArticleAn Alternative Future for the National Labs
The second session in the Reinventors Network series on Reinventing Nuclear Security that we’re supporting focused on how the National Labs system, born of the nuclear age, might look different in the...
View ArticleRecap: Reinventing Nuclear Security: Big Opportunities for New Partners
The most recent segment of the Reinventors Network series on Reinventing Nuclear Security focused on ways new players who don’t traditionally think of the nuclear security sphere can constructively...
View ArticleReinventing Nuclear Security – The Future We Want
The final session of the six-part Reinventing Nuclear Security series, an initiative of N Square, which we support, focuses on envisioning a world in which nuclear weapons no longer play a role. You...
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N Square Games for Change Challenge on Nuclear Risks
N Square, the initiative we’re supporting along with other leading nuclear funders to bring new ideas and new players into the nuclear security realm, has just launched a gaming challenge with Games...
View ArticleN Square Talks Nuclear Risks at PopTech
N Square, the collaborative we’re supporting to bring new players and new ideas into the nuclear realm, presented at PopTech’s annual shindig a couple of weeks back. Erika Gregory, N Square’s executive...
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N Square Launches its First Innocentive Challenge
Our grantee, N Square, just launched its first Innocentive Challenge. The challenge seeks solutions that detail how a highly engaged network of influencers in the arts, education, finance, media,...
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