Edward Skloot
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- Director, Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society
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Edward Skloot is Director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society and Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. In June 2007, he retired as President of the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation headquartered in New York City. He was the first CEO of the $1 billion (2007) foundation and held this position beginning in 1989.
Before coming to Surdna, Skloot was founder and president of New Ventures, a nonprofit consulting firm that assisted other NGOs in earning income as a complement to fund-raising. Begun in 1980, New Ventures was the first organization to promote “social entrepreneurship.” Skloot wrote the early literature and helped create the field of social enterprise. He has also served in senior posts in state and local government.
Skloot serves on the boards of directors of Independent Sector; Venture Philanthropy Partners, a group of venture capitalists helping youth-serving organizations in the Washington, D.C. region; Citizen Schools, an after-school program located in seven states; the Partnership for Palliative Care; and TROSA, the largest residential therapeutic community in North Carolina. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm affiliated with Bain and Co., and of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS Center) of Stanford University.
Skloot has written and spoken widely on the subjects of nonprofit management, social venturing and sectoral leadership. Surdna has just published a compilation of his recent speeches in a book called "Beyond the Money." He also was the principal writer and editor of "The Nonprofit Entrepreneur," published by the Foundation Center.
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