Redford Teams With Ex-eBay Head to Fund PBS Series
June 28th, 2005 by Laurie BarakSource: The Houston Chronicle
Jeff Skoll, the billionaire former president of eBay, and actor Robert Redford have teamed up for projects designed around philanthropy and filmmaking. One of the results is The New Heroes, a PBS documentary series.
The series, which focuses on a globe-spanning group of “social entrepreneurs” who want to use business strategies to finance nonprofit goals, epitomizes a longtime Redford ideal of using film on behalf of cultural and humanitarian causes.
In Skoll, who founded the Skoll Foundation and has overseen its growth to more than $500 million in assets, Redford has found the kind of tech-wealthy social activist who is giving life to initiatives that often never used to get off the ground. Redford, 67, is the host and one of the narrators of The New Heroes.
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