Helen Coster writes and edits stories about business, innovation, and technology for Fortune, Fast Company, and other publications. She created Forbes’ inaugural list of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, and has profiled entrepreneurs in Pakistan, Mexico, and several other countries. In 2010 she won an International Reporting Project Fellowship and traveled to Bolivia to report on foreign policy, child labor and public health.
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At Jeff Skoll’s Annual Woodstock for Social Entrepreneurs
Jeff Skoll made his fortune as the first full-time employee and president of eBay. Now, as a philanthropist, he uses his eponymous foundation to back people tackling problems like education inequality and disease. A few weeks ago I attended the Skoll Foundation’s tenth annual World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The three-day event takes place at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, where in 2003 Skoll endowed a center devoted to social entrepreneurship.
