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 6, 2018.
Editor’s Note: And so, it is here. A New Year has arrived and for many, this year represents a chance to turn a page and start anew. For our family and for many in our community, 2017 was a year of great loss and turmoil. We meet 2018 with a renewed sense of...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantee, Our Partners, Stories & Tagged as: StrongMinds on December 16, 2017.
Related Grantee:
StrongMinds.
Editor’s Note: Hello, all, and happy holidays! For this blog post, we decided to highlight one of our brand new, incredibly effective partners, StrongMinds. I wanted to quickly issue a warning for the content below: it pertains to suicide. I know the holidays can be...Read more
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: Asia, Education, Grantee, Our Partners, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Teach North Korean Refugees on July 1, 2017.
Related Grantee:
Teach North Korean Refugees.
Editor’s Note: A few years ago, I was beginning my adventures living and teaching English in South Korea and I came across this small nonprofit, Teach North Korean Refugees. They were a small, mission-based nonprofit that was in a geographic location that Skees...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling, Youth on April 8, 2017.
Related Grantees:
Agora Partnerships,
Akilah Institute for Women,
Asante Africa Foundation,
Jibu,
BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures.
SEED PARTNER UPDATE: African Entrepreneur Collective in East Africa: Part 3 Editor’s note: We’re thrilled to announce that our new grantee partner, African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC), will be featured in a forthcoming book, Beyond a Thousand Hills....Read more
