Categorized as: Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling on November 6, 2021. Related Grantee: Bean Voyage.
Editor’s Note: Skees Family Foundation has been working with Bean Voyage for years and not only are they constantly growing, but they are creatively thinking of new ways to help the womxn they are working with. For the past year, they have worked with five...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Education, Girls & women, Stories, Storytelling, Youth on September 18, 2021.
Editor’s Note: Every year, Skees Family Foundation has the privilege of working with an intern from The Nueva School. The Nueva School matches gifted learners with impactful internships in order to build a well-rounded and inclusive educational environment. Each...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Stories, Storytelling on August 7, 2021.
Photo courtesy of Júnior Ferreira on Unsplash. By Sally Skees-Helly, Director and CFO Through this blog, Skees Family Foundation always strives to inform, inspire, and promote. Whether it is highlighting one of our grantee partners and their work, discussing trends in...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling on July 10, 2021. Related Grantees: Bean Voyage, Embrace Her, Idea4Africa, KadAfrica, Preserve International, Tech Me.
Editor’s Note: As the United States has begun to emerge from the pandemic over the past two quarters, some of our partners are also beginning to emerge, while others are still struggling to contain the virus while waiting for accessible vaccines. We continue to...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