Categorized as: About us, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling, Youth on March 23, 2019.
Related Grantees:
Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti),
Voix & Actions.
Teachers involved in Anseye Pou Ayiti outside of their school, after discussing how they are trying to reform the education system in rural areas. By Sarah Helly, Skees Family Member Editor’s Note: Sarah Helly is a junior in high school and the daughter of Sally...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Middle East, MY JOB book and community, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories, Storytelling, U.S., Youth on January 7, 2019.
Editor’s Note: We had an amazing year at Skees Family Foundation. We made a lot of changes and are really looking forward to a great and productive 2019. Thanks to all of our partners and all of our readers for your hard work and dedication! Brienne Skees,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Middle East, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling, U.S., Youth on December 8, 2018.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
African Entrepreneur Collective,
Agora Partnerships,
Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti),
Destiny Foundation through Cents of Relief,
Educate Lanka,
JAAGO Foundation through the Jolkona Foundation,
Medha,
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum,
Resonate,
StrongMinds,
Tomorrow’s Youth Organization,
Voix & Actions,
Women LEAD.
Sally Skees-Helly, Chief Financial Officer and Director African Entrepreneurship Collective: AEC continues to provide entrepreneurs in Rwanda with skills and mentoring to develop and grow their businesses, including many refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa escaping...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Grantee, Latin America, Our Partners, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Community based organization, Corporal punishment, Critical thinking, Dimagi, Gates Foundation, Haiti, Leadership, Nedgine Paul Deroly, Obama Foundation, Paul VanDeCarr, Slavery, Stealth grantmaking, Working Narratives on September 22, 2018.
Editor’s Note: Anseye Pou Ayiti (or APA, Kreyòl for Teach for Haiti) is a nonprofit organization that recruits and equips local teachers in rural primary schools to elevate students’ learning, transform classrooms and communities, and build a Haitian-led movement of...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Voix et Actions on August 11, 2018.
Related Grantee:
Voix & Actions.
How to bring lasting prosperity to Haiti? It turns out not by funneling outside funds into Port au Prince, but by empowering small rural communities through tangible economic opportunity. Voix et Actions’ model of providing livestock to members of a small village to...Read more
