Categorized as: Stories, U.S. on January 8, 2022.
Image courtesy of Moritz Knöringer on Unsplash. Happy New Year to all of our readers! We will soon dive into a new and exciting year of Seeds of Hope blogs focused on our nonprofit partners, updates in philanthropy, incredible changes happening at Skees Family...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, U.S. on December 18, 2021. Related Grantees: Bean Voyage, Embrace Her, Preserve International, KadAfrica, Idea4Africa, Tech Me.
Editor’s Note: As the year is coming to an end, we wanted to take a few minutes to highlight some of our partners’ work. Everyone has worked so hard this year and we wanted to honor that. Read on to hear about some of the amazing accomplishments SFF...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Stories, U.S. on June 19, 2021.
Source: Pixabay Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution establishing June 19th as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. On Wednesday, the House passed the...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, U.S. on February 27, 2021.
Coronavirus photo by the CDC courtesy of Unsplash. Editor’s Note: Our staff and board are always trying to find ways to support our partners both past and present, outside of our small family foundation grantmaking. In today’s blog, we’ve pulled together some...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