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Apr 16, 2024 · Founder Jeff Skoll broke the news to a staff of roughly 100 on Tuesday. Established in 2004, Participant co-produced or co-financed a number of notable movies including best picture Oscar winners ...
After spending down Jeff Skoll’s original $100 million gift, the Skoll Global Threats Fund sunset at the end of 2017, spinning off its pandemics and climate work into standalone initiatives– Ending Pandemics and the Climate Advocacy Lab, respectively. The Fund’s peace and security work was incorporated into the Skoll Foundation’s programs.
Apr 19, 2024 · Skoll was interested in using his wealth, which today Forbes estimates at $4.5 billion, to make a major philanthropic impact, and founded The Skoll Foundation in 1999 to fight global poverty. In ...
Apr 16, 2024 · FILE – Jeff Skoll arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” at the Arclight Hollywood, July 25, 2017, in Los Angeles. Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners like “Spotlight” and socially conscious documentaries like “Food, Inc,” and “Waiting For Superman” is closing its doors after 20 years.
Apr 16, 2024 · Participant, the 20-year-old film and television production company whose mission was to inspire social justice and humanitarian action, is shutting down.. Founder Jeff Skoll broke the news to a ...
Jun 24, 2020 · N ine years ago, Jeff Skoll’s film company Participant Media partnered with Warner Brothers to put out Contagion, a movie about a global pandemic that started with a virus from a bat.An American ...
