New Social Entrp. Initiatives (Skoll Foundation)

The Skoll Global Threats Fund, created by Jeff Skoll last year and led by Larry Brilliant, announced today its first grants and latest executive hire, as well as launched a new website. The site gives a good overview of the Skoll Global Threat Fund's mission and its approach on the five global threats it will focus on initially: climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict. The Skoll Global Threat Fund's first grants are to Ploughshares, to promote nuclear weapons elimination, and J Street, to encourage moderate voices in support of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Larry's first executive hire is Eric Nonacs as VP, Alliances and Partnerships, who arrives with a strong background working on social change issues with, among others, the Clinton Foundation.