Categorized as: Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories, U.S. on April 9, 2020.
Photo courtesy of Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash. By Sally Skees-Helly, Director and CFO As many of you are aware, last month, the US federal government passed an unprecedented stimulus package of $2.2T (CARES Act) considered “Phase 3” after two much smaller packages....Read more
Categorized as: About us, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling on April 4, 2020.
Photo courtesy of Alexas Fotos on Unsplash. To all of our readers and our partners, we simply wanted to take a minute to say how appreciative we are for you and the work you do. We know these are unprecedented times we are facing, and many of us are struggling,...Read more
Categorized as: Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Stories & Tagged as: Agora Partnerships, Argentina, Eco-manufacturing, Shoes, Social entrepreneurism on March 7, 2020. Related Grantee: Agora Partnerships.
Editor’s note: Can you recycle garbage into job opportunities for single mothers, disabled and incarcerated people? Well, Xinca can. Xinca, a social enterprise in Mendoza, Argentina, turns trashed tires (that’s 100,000 tons discarded per year in Argentina...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on February 22, 2020. Related Grantee: Tujenge Africa Foundation.
Tujenge Staff and Tujenge Scholarship Program Scholars Editor’s Note: In 2019, through our Generational Grants Program, we partnered with Tujenge Africa Foundation. Founded in 2015 with a budget funded by an Echoing Green Global Fellowship and Stephen Peel, Chair of...Read more
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 11, 2020. Related Grantees: Agora Partnerships, Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti), Bean Voyage, Beneficial Returns, CREA Nicaragua, Educate Lanka, Education Bridge, Eggpreneur, Idea4Africa, Jibu, KadAfrica, Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation, Resonate, Tomorrow’s Youth Organization, Village Enterprise, Women LEAD.
Editor’s Note: 2019 was an incredible year for Skees Family Foundation. We reevaluated our mission, grant structure, and methodology. We made the decision to create an advisory board. We added a new family board member. It was also an amazing year for our...Read more