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Advice From 5 Women And A Guy Who Won $1.25 Million To Do Good

The winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship share surprising lessons on life, leadership and gender in the workplace.
Winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship (from left) are Jennifer Pahlka, Harish Hande, Jess Ladd, Lesley Marincola, Anushka Ratnayake and Barbara Pierce Bush.

You can't help but note that of the six winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, five are women.

"I'm the odd man out," jokes Harish Hande, an awardee for his SELCO Foundation, which works to provide solar power systems at low cost to the poor in India.

The award is given to groups, either nonprofit or for-profit, dedicated to making the world a better place. And it is quite an award — a grant of $1.25 million over three years.

The dominance of women this year was not just happenstance. , senior director for social entrepreneurship for Skoll, puts the issue of awardee

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