Categorized as: About us, Education, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling on May 2, 2020.
Photo courtesy of the United Nations COVID-19 Response on Unsplash. Editor’s Note: Last week we had the honor of hosting a Zoom meeting with several of our nonprofit partners to touch base with them and provide a forum for them to meet each other and talk about how...Read more
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: 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: Africa, Education, Leadership, Stories, U.S., Youth on February 8, 2020.
Note from SFF Founder, Suzanne: It may be you, or someone you love: one of five of us will suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar, or schizophrenia each year and more than half will endure some type of mental disorder or illness in our lifetime. We lost my cherished...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Grantmaking strategy, Leadership, Stories on January 25, 2020.
Photo courtesy of Austin Neill on Unsplash. Editor’s Note: As most of you loyal readers know, 2019 was a crazy year for us. One of our biggest tasks was narrowing down what we do, why we do it, and how we do it. We at SFF have always believed in and trusted our...Read more