Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Middle East, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories, Storytelling, U.S. on November 25, 2017.
Editor’s Note: One of the most rewarding aspects of working in a small family foundation like ours, is seeing the hard work and passion of our grantee partners generate real change and opportunity in the communities in which they live and work. As part of our...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: 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
