Skoll Foundation Funding

‘As the co-founders of the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs we are delighted to announce that we have received a significant grant from the Skoll Foundation.

We formed the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs to create a safe, creative place for social entrepreneurs to consider their own succession and transition plans. Succession and transition take many forms and not only involve the social entrepreneur themselves, but also their organisation’s Board, staff, volunteers, donors and the beneficiaries of the organisation. It involves money, planning and above all wellbeing and emotion. By creating this organisation we have opened up a space where the voices of Elders can be heard as Eldership is also about celebrating diversity.

The very welcome support from the Skoll Foundation gives us a clear runway to develop our ambitious plans for the social entrepreneur community. For example, we will deepen our  successful global webinar programme and promote our Wisdom Bank - recently launched in a wonderful online celebration of Elders and “Youngers”. In time, the Wisdom Bank is intended as a precious gift of knowledge and wisdom from the whole of the social entrepreneur community to the world. Finally, the funds from the Skoll Foundation will permit us to design and operate a mentoring programme in which Elders provide support to others in the social entrepreneur community.

If you are interested in the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs you can find out more (and become a member, it’s free) on our Join Us page.

We offer warm thanks to the Skoll Foundation for their generous support.

Andrea Coleman, Mel Young, Chris Underhill MBE’