Categorized as: Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on July 6, 2019. Related Grantee: Bean Voyage.
ASIPROFE is a new group that joined Bean Voyage’s program in 2019. They’re an association working to promote sustainable and higher equality coffee in the Asseri region of Costa Rica. By Shelly Skees, Skees Family Foundation Secretary Editor’s note: It truly is a...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Job Creation, Leadership, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Beekeeping, Candles, Fair trade, Fonkoze, Gifts, Haiti unrest, Jewelry, Job creation, Kiva, Prosperity Catalyst, Suzanne Skees, Vincent Oviedo, Women's coop on June 22, 2019.
Candlemakers from Haiti. Photo courtesy of Prosperity Catalyst. By Vincent Oviedo, a Skees Family Foundation (SFF) member and social worker/therapist, and Suzanne Skees, founder and board chair of SFF and editor of the MY JOB book series. Coauthors’ Note: Why...Read more
Categorized as: About us, 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 May 18, 2019. Related Grantees: Agora Partnerships, Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti), Bean Voyage, CREA Nicaragua, Destiny Foundation through Cents of Relief, Educate Lanka, Idea4Africa, KadAfrica, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, Resonate, StrongMinds, Tomorrow’s Youth Organization, Voix & Actions, Women LEAD.
Editor’s Note: It’s always rewarding to dig into our grantee partners’ latest accomplishments when I pull together my quarterly Director’s Report. The tenacity and ingenuity each brings to their unique missions reinforces our foundation’s...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling on May 4, 2019. Related Grantee: Women LEAD.
Alumni and LEADers welcome Hima, the new ED. By Bidhyalaxmi Maharjan, Vice Secretary of Women LEAD Nepal Editor’s Note: Skees Family Foundation began working with Women LEAD Nepal in 2016. We love the work they are doing. Since they began, they have trained hundreds...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Asia, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on April 6, 2019. Related Grantee: Educate Lanka.
The participants from the inaugural Global Citizenship Seminar – Sri Lanka pose for a picture at the end of their program. Editor’s Note: Skees Family Foundation began working with Educate Lanka in 2014. Educate Lanka has been an inspiring partner for us,...Read more