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: Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth on November 26, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Batonga Foundation,
Destiny Foundation through Cents of Relief,
Jibu,
BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
Editor’s note: See how our job-creation partner Agora Partnerships builds jobs such as: recycling waste into fertilizer in Guatemala, distributing children’s books, increasing access to banking, and other startups that build jobs and strengthen the...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: Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Ecuador, Microloans on September 18, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Firelight Foundation,
Grameen Foundation,
Save the Children,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
By Amelia Kuklewicz, Ecuador Program Manager, Freedom from Hunger Editor’s note: Happy 70th birthday to our longtime, deeply valued partner, Freedom from Hunger, whose small staff of less than 50 strives to end hunger through financial empowerment,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Cookstoves, Environment, Nairobi, Slums, Solar power on August 13, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Agora Partnerships,
Destiny Foundation through Cents of Relief,
Freedom From Hunger,
Grameen Foundation,
Hope for Honduran Children,
Jibu,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
By Suzanne Skees This story was originally published on Huffington Post. Read the original version here. Chronic unemployment in Kenya leaves 68 percent of youth without a stable income. In the slums, young men and women struggle to find a source of income....Read more
