Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: The BOMA Project on July 9, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Firelight Foundation,
Freedom From Hunger,
Grameen Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Upaya Social Ventures.
Editor’s note: Scroll down to watch a video about Mekona, who never had a chance to attend school but has learned business and financial skills while building her business with our partners in rural Kenya at The BOMA Project. With three children to support, and...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories & Tagged as: Elections, Empowerment on June 17, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Akilah Institute for Women,
Asante Africa Foundation,
Grameen Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
Resonate.
Editor’s note: You think you have challenges as a women, either running for president or voting for one? Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), also voting this November, are banding together to demand greater government representation in a nation with...Read more
Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Our Partners, Stories, Youth on June 4, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Asante Africa Foundation,
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Batonga Foundation,
Cooperative for Education,
Hand in Hand,
JAAGO Foundation through the Jolkona Foundation,
The School Fund,
Tomorrow’s Youth Organization.
Editor’s Note: Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti) is a grantee partner of the Skees Family Foundation. Our Program Director, Sally Skees-Helly, recently met founder Nedgine Paul and learned more about her inspiration and drive to create real change in Haiti’s...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Stories, U.S., Youth & Tagged as: Chicago, Exponent Philanthropy, Lessons learned, PBMR, Violence on May 7, 2016.
By Suzanne Skees Our Chicago education and job-skills partner, The PBMR Peace Center, creates a safe space for youth and their families to escape the gangs, drugs, and violence of the South Side streets and to build a life of choice. I was fortunate to be in Chicago...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Education, Grantee, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling, Youth & Tagged as: Dreams, Family, John Medo, Scholarship, The School Fund, Tragic death, Tribute on April 2, 2016.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
Akilah Institute for Women,
Asante Africa Foundation,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania.
By Suzanne Skees John’s brother Eli says: “We don’t want to say goodbye. He was a dream boy–one of our most shining stars disappearing–as simple as that.” This week, my dear young friend John Medo, the inspiration for and first...Read more
