Categorized as: About us, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Affordable housing, Huffington Post, Microloans, Nicaragua, Slums, WCCN on August 8, 2015.
A typical “precarious” home in the Managua slums. Editor’s Note: This summer, our director, Suzanne Skees, traveled to Nicaragua with Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN). She discovered that her childhood dream of everyone having access to...Read more
Categorized as: Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Social-impact investments, Stories & Tagged as: Annual report, Impact on July 15, 2015.
At the Skees Family Foundation, we find great value in driving economic development by empowering entrepreneurs. Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN) represents one of our grantees excelling at this strategy. Since its creation in 1984, WCCN has used impact...Read more
Categorized as: Grantee, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: "forgotten boys", Charity, Donations, Honduras, Hope 4 Honduran Children, International development, Karen Godt, Legacy, Lessons learned, Service travel on April 4, 2015.
At times our heart is in the right place but our methods of changing the world are flawed. The founder of the Hope for Honduran Children Foundation shares her thoughts on how to strengthen humanitarian help abroad. By Karen Godt, Executive Director of Hope for...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Age Africa, Akilah Institute, Destiny Foundation, Global Press Institute, International Women's Day, Kiretono Resource Center, The BOMA Project on March 7, 2015.
Photo courtesy of Upaya Social Ventures. Editor’s Note: As the world celebrates International Women’s Day tomorrow, we look to the great work our grantees are doing to advance women’s causes. By Suzanne Skees Happy International Women’s Day! This...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Job Creation, Latin America, Middle East, MY JOB book and community, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Book project, California, Colorado, Fundraiser, Google, Korea, Maui, My Internet Scout, OneSquareWorld, Suzanne Skees, The School Fund, Third Plateau, Thriive, Vietnam, VoType, Zambia on February 21, 2015.
Editor’s Note: Our family and foundation team are thrilled to announce the launch of our book project. Here, we disclose the what, why, who, when, and how of MY JOB. While you clock in each day to a job you may love or hate, our director, Suzanne, along with a...Read more
