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Skoll Foundation company history timeline

2001

Sally Osberg, former president and CEO, joined the foundation in 2001 and is the co-author, with Roger Martin, of Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works.

2015

She was named as one of the social sector's 50 most influential leaders in 2015 by The Nonprofit Times.

2017

The Skoll Global Threats Fund spent down the $100 million of funding it received from Jeff Skoll and shut down in 2017, with some of its projects spinning off as independent nonprofits and another being folded back into the Skoll Foundation.

2018

In 2018, Richard Fahey assumed the role of Interim President after 14 years of executive leadership at the foundation.

2019

In February 2019, Donald Gips was appointed as the CEO of the Skoll Foundation.

2021

In March 2021, Marla Blow was named president and chief operating officer at the Skoll Foundation.

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1999
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