Edward Skloot
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Position: Immediate Past Executive Director
Organization: Surdna Foundation
Location: New York, NY
Edward Skloot is a Panel member.
Edward Skloot recently retired as executive director of the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation headquartered in New York City that makes grants in five fields: the environment, neighborhood revitalization, youth organizing, arts, and nonprofit sector issues. The foundation's first professional employee, Mr. Skloot built a staff of 20 and helped Surdna, which has assets of nearly $700 million, earn a national reputation for entrepreneurial grantmaking, collaborative approaches with other funders and grantees, and aggressive solution-finding for complex problems. Mr. Skloot previously founded and ran New Ventures, a consulting firm that created the field of social venturing and nonprofit entrepreneurship; he also wrote the first article ever published on the subject, in the Harvard Business Review in 1983. He currently serves on the board of Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) and Venture Philanthropy Partners, a group of venture capitalists helping youth-serving organizations in the Washington, D.C. region. He is a member of the advisory board of the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm. Mr. Skloot has written and spoken widely on the subjects of nonprofit management, social venturing and sectoral leadership and is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and from the Columbia University School of International Affairs.