Categorized as: Africa, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling, Youth on April 8, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Agora Partnerships,
Akilah Institute for Women,
Asante Africa Foundation,
Jibu,
BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures.
SEED PARTNER UPDATE: African Entrepreneur Collective in East Africa: Part 3 Editor’s note: We’re thrilled to announce that our new grantee partner, African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC), will be featured in a forthcoming book, Beyond a Thousand Hills....Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: CNBC, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Job training, Mark Zuckerberg, President Obama on April 1, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Agora Partnerships,
Asante Africa Foundation,
Educate Lanka,
Hope for Honduran Children,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Medha.
CATALYST AND SEED PARTNER UPDATE: Akilah Institute and African Entrepreneur Collective in East Africa: Part 2 Editor’s note: Our family gets so excited when our partners collaborate with each other, that we get a little goofy. It feels a little as though two of...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories & Tagged as: Information technology, Online education, Scaling on March 26, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Asante Africa Foundation,
The School Fund,
Women LEAD.
CATALYST PARTNER UPDATE: Akilah Institute in East Africa: Part 1 Our connection: Our family has been honored to support the Akilah Institute in Kigali, Rwanda, since 2012—first as friends, when I had the lucky chance to visit Akilah and meet cofounders Elizabeth...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth on March 4, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Akilah Institute for Women,
Firelight Foundation,
Grameen Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Resonate.
Editor’s note: This year, Batonga Foundation, founded and led by Grammy-award-winner West African musician and U.N. ambassador Angélique Kidjo, undertakes a targeted, data-based approach called the “Girl Roster” to survey 10-to-14-year-old girls in...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling on January 7, 2017.
Related Grantees:
African Entrepreneur Collective,
Agora Partnerships,
Firelight Foundation,
Freedom From Hunger,
Grameen Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Upaya Social Ventures.
Editor’s note: Our partners at The BOMA Project believe fiercely in the potential of a mother’s love and intelligence and have found practical ways to get mothers to work in a rural region of Kenya where few jobs exist. Can BOMA really alleviate...Read more
