Categorized as: About us, Africa, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on February 13, 2021.
Photo courtesy of Roman Synkevych on Unsplash Editor’s Note: 2021 is turning out to be quite an exciting year for Skees Family Foundation, so keep an eye out for some major announcements coming over the next several months. Our first announcement is the...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on January 23, 2021. Related Grantee: Bean Voyage.
Editor’s Note: Skees Family Foundation has been working with Bean Voyage for several years now, and we just love the work they are doing. By Sunghee Tark (left) and Abhinav Khanal (right), Founders of Bean Voyage Four years ago, at the early stages of Bean...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, 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 9, 2021. Related Grantees: Agora Partnerships, Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti), Bean Voyage, Beneficial Returns, CREA Nicaragua, Educate Lanka, Education Bridge, Eggpreneur, Idea4Africa, Jibu, KadAfrica, Resonate, Tomorrow’s Youth Organization, Tujenge Africa Foundation, Women LEAD, Village Enterprise.
Editor’s Note: 2020 was a very serious year of reflection for SFF. We took a really deep dive into our privilege as a family and as a foundation and are making some long overdue and much needed changes to the structure of the foundation in the coming year! We...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 December 26, 2020. Related Grantees: Agora Partnerships, Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti), Bean Voyage, CREA Nicaragua, Educate Lanka, Education Bridge, Eggpreneur, Idea4Africa, KadAfrica, Tomorrow’s Youth Organization, Tujenge Africa Foundation, Women LEAD.
Editor’s Note: It goes without saying that 2020 has been a heck of a ride. Luckily, we are nearing the end of this disastrous year, with a light on the horizon. Here is a round-up of how our partners are ending the year and looking on to the next! Happy holidays...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on December 12, 2020. Related Grantee: Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti).
Editor’s Note: In 2018, as “pre-board member”, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to Haiti and accompany two Skees Family Foundation Board Members, Suzanne and Sally during their visit with Skees Family Foundation partners. Anseye Pou Ayiti was...Read more