Categorized as: Asia, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: BetterStories Limited, British Council, Coding, Computers, Kids Go Coding, Technology on January 28, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Akilah Institute for Women,
Medha,
The School Fund.
By Suzanne Skees JAAGO: Extending Quality Education for All Born into a lineage of poverty in the slums of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, Nila might have followed in her parents’ footsteps for a lifetime of arduous manual labor and chronic hunger. However,...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, Job Creation, Latin America, Middle East, MY JOB book and community, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories, U.S., Youth & Tagged as: 2016, Annual report on December 3, 2016.
Editor’s note: Winter brings snow, candles, family, and festivities–for some. For others, the long nights strike the loneliest chord and the cold days bring too little comfort and food. We join you, our friends and collaborators in our quiet, ongoing...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Collaboration, Innovation, News on October 31, 2016.
This article is reprinted from Next Billion, a community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGO managers, policy makers, academics and others exploring the connection between development and enterprise. NextBillion chronicles new trends in market solutions to...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Our Partners, Stories, Youth on June 4, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Asante Africa Foundation,
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Batonga Foundation,
Cooperative for Education,
Hand in Hand,
JAAGO Foundation through the Jolkona Foundation,
The School Fund,
Tomorrow’s Youth Organization.
Editor’s Note: Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti) is a grantee partner of the Skees Family Foundation. Our Program Director, Sally Skees-Helly, recently met founder Nedgine Paul and learned more about her inspiration and drive to create real change in Haiti’s...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Stories, U.S., Youth & Tagged as: Chicago, Exponent Philanthropy, Lessons learned, PBMR, Violence on May 7, 2016.
By Suzanne Skees Our Chicago education and job-skills partner, The PBMR Peace Center, creates a safe space for youth and their families to escape the gangs, drugs, and violence of the South Side streets and to build a life of choice. I was fortunate to be in Chicago...Read more
