Jeff Skoll, founder and chairman of the Skoll Foundation [2] and Participant Media [3], accepted Ploughshares Fund's invitation to join its advisory board, the same day that he launched the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund [4], a new organization that will identify and support innovative high-impact initiatives to combat nuclear proliferation, climate change, water scarcity, pandemics and Middle East conflict. Skoll appointed Google.org's Chief Philanthropic Evangelist Dr. Larry Brilliant [5] to head the Urgent Threats Fund.
Links
[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/577
[2] http://www.skollfoundation.org/
[3] http://www.participantmedia.com/
[4] http://www.skollonline.com/blog/?p=144
[5] http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#brilliant
[6] http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090415/pl_usnw/dr__larry_brilliant_joins_jeff_skoll_to_combat_global_challenges