Categorized as: About us, Education, Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, Job Creation, MY JOB book and community, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling, U.S. & Tagged as: 2014 grantees, Annual report, Impact on January 3, 2015.
Part II of our series on our new grantmaking strategy includes our 2014 annual report announcing our rockstar partners and their impact, changes we’ve seen in philanthropy over the years, and our vision for the future. See Part I here. Editor’s...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Latin America, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Failure, India, Kate Cochran, Kiva, Lessons learned, Social entrepreneurism, Vittana on December 31, 2014.
Photo courtesy of CoWomen on Unsplash. Editor’s note: I’ve made mistakes every day in the last ten years on the job at SFF, and I’ve seen my share of failures in the social-sector field . . . but I’ve never seen compassion and tenacity in the...Read more
Categorized as: Grantee, Middle East, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling & Tagged as: Gaza, Palestine, Peace, Voice of Witness on November 29, 2014.
Editor’s note: Voice of Witness (VOW) is a nonprofit dedicated to fostering a more nuanced, empathy-based understanding of contemporary human rights crises. VOW has so far published thirteen titles in its series on a wide variety of social justice issues,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Grantee, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Gardens for Health International, Health, Nutrition, Rwanda, Thanksgiving on November 22, 2014.
Editor’s Note: This Thanksgiving as we celebrate friends, family, and food in the United States, we want to bring you to a different part of the world where the same holiday has significant meaning. Gardens for Health International (GHI), our grantee partner,...Read more
Categorized as: Asia, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Ecopreneurist, Elrhino, India, Social entrepreneurism, Tamul Plates, Upaya Social Ventures on November 20, 2014.
A quiet movement by young social entrepreneurs across north and east India finds ways to turn waste from plants and animals into jobs for the ultra poor. By Suzanne Skees for Ecopreneurist This article originally appeared on Ecopreneurist. Across India,...Read more
