Talk:Jeffrey Skoll

message: Jeff Skoll's family was part of Montreal's vibrant Jewish community.
:: Can you provide a citation for this? Russel Harrison (talk) 03:50, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish

message: We say he "remains its second-largest shareholder", but today's Telegraph Magazine says he "sold his stake in the company for $2billion".  This March 2004 filing indeed shows him as the second largest stockholder, behind Omidyar. This CNN story from September 2004 says he owned 8% of the company then. This Wired article of Feb 2006 says he started Participant "after cashing out of eBay with $2 billion in his pocket". So it looks like he cached out sometime in late 2004 or in 2005 - do we have a better source as to when? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:02, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I see this line was in the very first version of this article, back in December 2004. MSN Money's list of eBay shareholders shows all the big owners are mutual funds and the like.  As we have two sources (telegraph and wired, above) that say he sold his stock for £2B, I'll put that in the article. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: eBay stock

message: "Following the 1976 election of the Separatist Parti Québécois as the government of the Province of Quebec, like more than 400,000 other Anglo-Quebecers". This statement does not have its place in an encyclopedic article. They left because they left and that's all, everybody is allowed to move. The PQ influence implied is biased and irrelevant. The idea suggested here is that Québec would be richer now if it werent for the PQ who forced Jeff's family to leave. Wikipedia shouldn't be used for propaganda. 207.35.240.157 17:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anglophones left Quebec for all sorts of reasons which in individual cases may or may not have had anything to do with the PQ's election. The factual accuracy of the assertion that they left after the PQ was elected is not in question. What is in question is whether there is any relation between the two events. It is POV to make the assumption or even to act as if it is likely that one had anything to do with the other if there is no evidence specific to Skoll. Joeldl 18:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference to PQ irrelevant

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message: Hello! Lindsey from the Jeff Skoll Group here. I've joined Wikipedia to contribute helpful updates to this and other Jeff Skoll-related articles. I wanted to introduce myself and let you know that I will be proposing updates/edits to correct some of the issues on this page, while also providing updates to stale info. I will come back with those proposals once they are finished. Meantime, I did spot a few sourcing issues in Early life. Here are citations to verify presently unsourced content.
Unsourced content
"The family settled in Toronto in the late seventies."
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"When Skoll was fourteen, his father was diagnosed with cancer which prompted him to discuss with his son how much he regretted not having had the time to do everything he had planned in life."
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"He paid his way through college by pumping gas…"
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"After graduating he backpacked around the world for several months…"
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"...founding two businesses in Toronto: Skoll Engineering, an information technology consulting firm and Micros on the Move Ltd., a computer rental firm."
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"...earn a Masters of Business Administration degree at Stanford Business School, graduating in 1995"
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As I find more sources to shore up other content, I will post them on this Talk page for editors. Thank you. JSG Lindsey (talk) 17:49, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to improve citations 

message: Hello! Lindsey from the Jeff Skoll Group here. I am proposing some starter edits for "Philanthropy". As of writing this message, "Philanthropy" contains content with no inline citations and redundant information that is better for "Honours and awards". I wrote a draft where I tried to fix these issues. Are editors available to review my draft "Philanthropy" section? I posted notes underneath the draft to explain the changes.
"Philanthropy draft"
Skoll is a noted philanthropist; he is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, and a Giving Pledge signatory. He has given the eponymous Skoll Foundation approximately $1 billion of eBay stock since its formation in 1999. The Foundation supports "social entrepreneurship". An Open Letter To Jeff Skoll Skoll chairs the Foundation and as of 2020 makes grants in excess of $80 million per year. The Skoll Foundation's assets rank it as the largest foundation for social entrepreneurship in the world.
As of 2020, Skoll has been working for over ten years to help prevent pandemics and other global threats. In 2009, Skoll donated $100 million to create the Skoll Global Threats Fund to confront threats to humanity in 5 areas: climate change, water security, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, and Middle East conflict. The Fund created and spun off a stand alone non-profit entity, Ending Pandemics, that focuses on pandemic detection and response. In 2011, Skoll's film company Participant Media co-produced the film Contagion to raise awareness about the dangers posed by pandemics. He wanted the film to be scientifically sound and encourage funding of medical experts; in 2020, media coverage noted it was "shocking in its accuracy". In 2020, Skoll donated $20 million in January, and then an additional $100 million in April, to the Skoll Foundation for use in combating the covid-19 pandemic. The $100 million donation was intended to be used to assist with covid-19 testing, contact tracing, and providing respiratory devices and other medical equipment to countries that cannot afford it or lack infrastructure to support it.
Skoll is a member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council. 
In 2005, Skoll financed The Gandhi Project in partnership with Relief International which created a dubbed version in Arabic of the film Gandhi. They used Palestinian voice actors and artists to make the film particularly relevant to Palestinians. With Skoll's support, it was screened throughout Palestine to promote non-violence, self-reliance, economic development, and empowerment.
Notes on draft
*This draft changes the first sentence from "Skoll is a noted philanthropist and has been honoured many times for his generosity" to "Skoll is a noted philanthropist; he is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, and a Giving Pledge signatory." This adds citations and attempts to show rather than tell. 
*Includes a citation for the following uncited sentence: "Skoll chairs the Foundation and as of 2020 makes grants in excess of $80 million per year. The Skoll Foundation's assets rank it as the largest foundation for social entrepreneurship in the world."
*Deletes the unsourced sentence: "Skoll's largest charitable donation was a $30 million contribution to the Alliance for Climate Protection Campaign."
*Removes redundant material from the second paragraph (the content is listed under "Honours and awards" already). 
*Adds a paragraph on portions of Skoll's work, specifically pandemics
*Adds a citation and minor copy edits to the Gandhi Project paragraph
I will come back with more proposed updates, but this is a good place to get started. 
Thank you. JSG Lindsey (talk) 18:16, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Penny75: I see you updated "Philanthropy". Thank you very much! It appears the citations were not carried over. Can you add the citations as well so readers can verify the content? Because of my conflict of interest, I should not edit the article myself. Thanks again for helping. JSG Lindsey (talk) 15:38, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Completed by Penny75. Thanks! JSG Lindsey (talk) 15:40, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Philanthropy 

message: Hello! Lindsey from the Jeff Skoll Group again. Because of my conflict of interest, I am proposing additional honors, awards, and recognition for the "Honours and awards" section that I hope editors will review. Are Cinemacriterion, Penny75, or other editors available to review if any of these are appropriate for the article?  
*Producers Guild of America's Visionary Award (2009)
*Huffington Post's "Ultimate Game Changer in Entertainment" among the world's top 100 game changers (2010)
*Environmental Media Awards Corporate Responsibility Award (2010)
*The Paley Center for Media's "Salute to Excellence" (2011)
*James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award (2011)
*John W. Gardner Leadership Award (2012)
*Career tribute at the Gotham Independent Film Awards (2012)
*Jefferson Award's S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen (2015)
*Ernest C. Arbuckle Award for excellence in the field of management leadership (2015)
*Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2017)
*The Hollywood Reporter 100: The Most Powerful People in Entertainment in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
*Forbes America's Top 50 Givers (2019)
Thank you, JSG Lindsey (talk) 16:03, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I oppose to turning the article into a directory of Mr. Skoll’s accolades and awards.  These belong more in a CV than in an encyclopedic entry. Ferkijel (talk) 22:19, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Honours and awards 

message: Hello! Lindsey from the Jeff Skoll Group here. Are editors available to add a new entry to the "Filmography" table? Jeff Skoll is executive producer of ¡Viva Maestro! (2021). I will not edit the table directly because of my conflict of interest.
Thank you. JSG Lindsey (talk) 20:03, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Ferkijel (talk) 12:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''¡Viva Maestro!''