Categorized as: Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Job Creation, Leadership, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Beekeeping, Candles, Fair trade, Fonkoze, Gifts, Haiti unrest, Jewelry, Job creation, Kiva, Prosperity Catalyst, Suzanne Skees, Vincent Oviedo, Women's coop on June 22, 2019.
Candlemakers from Haiti. Photo courtesy of Prosperity Catalyst. By Vincent Oviedo, a Skees Family Foundation (SFF) member and social worker/therapist, and Suzanne Skees, founder and board chair of SFF and editor of the MY JOB book series. Coauthors’ Note: Why...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Echoing Green, Julienne Oyler, Kiva, NATHALIE NIYONZIMA, Rwanda, Sara Leedom, Social entrepreneurism on November 10, 2018.
Editor’s notes: Happy 5th anniversary to African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC)! It’s an honor to partner, almost since their launch, with a social enterprise that’s made such a dent in unemployment by applying good business and venture capital...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
