Meeting on Social Entrepreneurship Kicks Off

March 30, 2011

Oxford, England
Some 800 nonprofit leaders, grant makers, investors, and academics have gathered on Oxford University’s 900-year-old campus to grapple with new approaches to social problems.
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focuses on innovative strategies that can expand with stable sources of funding. Also on the agenda are the closely related fields of social enterprise and social investing, which embrace business as a tool for change.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.