Philanthropists must step up and do more to help the nonprofit sector, leaders from some of the world’s biggest foundations said yesterday at the Skoll World Forum — the annual gathering for social entrepreneurs, which is taking place in Oxford in the United Kingdom this week.
Those leaders included Jeff Skoll himself. During the opening plenary on Wednesday, the eBay billionaire, who lent his name both to the conference and the Skoll Foundation, made his first appearance on stage in several years, after a long absence due to health issues believed to include an autoimmune disease, yellow fever, and a long-standing back injury.
Skoll told the conference that while it was necessary to generate efficiencies in government, the way those efficiencies had been generated was “careless, callous, and inhumane.”
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David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.
