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: About us, Job Creation, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Contest, MY JOB book, Publishing on March 1, 2019.
Editor’s note: We are super excited to announce that MY JOB Book 2 will ship on March 12. We want to thank you, our changemaking friends and peers, in two ways. Remember that every book you buy also creates jobs! Suzanne Skees, Founder and Board Chair ...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories on February 16, 2019.
Related Grantees:
Agora Partnerships,
Beneficial Returns.
Our family huddled around at the end of our amazing trip to Mexico! Editor’s Note: In 2017, Skees Family Foundation board members were gifted a very unique opportunity. The JasmineHugh Heart Fund was created, which is a privately funded grant program that allows board...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories & Tagged as: Impact Assets, Impact investing, Innovations for Poverty Alleviation, Village Enterprise Fund on February 2, 2019.
Related Grantees:
African Entrepreneur Collective,
Bean Voyage,
Jibu,
KadAfrica,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
Cover photo: Village Enterprise students graduate out of poverty by completing their small-business training program. Editor’s note: How do you know if your impact investments are actually having impact? One way is how our newest partner, Village...Read more
