Categorized as: Girls & women, Grantmaking strategy, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Gender issues, Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Root Capital, Sheryl Sandberg, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Village Capital on September 13, 2014.
Editor’s note: The Skees Family Foundation’s mission is to extend opportunity for all, primarily in education and enterprise, to end poverty worldwide. We mean opportunity for ALL: women, men, children, and everyone in-between. However, we found this...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Ghana, Grameen Foundation, Maternal healthcare, Mobile Midwife, Mobile technology, Women's eNews on September 6, 2014.
One mobile phone app delivers time-sensitive text messages or voicemails to pregnant women and new mothers; the other is for nurses. Together they are doing wonders for maternal and pregnancy health care and raising community awareness at the same time. ...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Crowdfunding, Drika Weller, InterAction, Kenya, The School Fund, Violence on August 30, 2014.
Hanging out with students from Ummu Salama School, Miyomboni Secondary School and Lugalo Secondary School in Iringa, Tanzania. Editor’s note: The School Fund’s new CEO, Dr. Drika Weller, joined The School Fund’s team and visited partners in Kenya,...Read more
