# eBay billionaire funds centre for social business at Oxford

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/27/ebay-billionaire-funds-centre-social-business-oxford/
- Published: 2003-11-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Jeff Skoll, former president of online auction company eBay, has donated £4.4 million
to the Said Business School to research businesses that trade for social benefit.

The donation was made the Skoll Foundation which has $300m under investment. Skoll
himself has been ranked the fourth wealthiest person under 40 by Fortune magazine.

 

 

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The donation is for the establishment of the world’s first academic centre for the
study and promotion of businesses that trade for a social purpose. The Skoll Centre
will begin by offering a one-year MBA in social entrepreneurship aswell as conducting
research.

 

 

Alison Benjamin offers a profile of this development in SocietyGuardian.

 

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