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: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on June 5, 2021. Related Grantee: KadAfrica.
At Sweswe Site, Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Cervical Cancer Advocacy Event, girls and women act out a cervical cancer screening procedure. Editor’s Note: In Part II of our series on our Catalyst Partner, KadAfrica, we focus on the new programs created within...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on May 22, 2021.
At Sweswe Site, Kyaka II Refugee Settlement Editor’s Note: The small, start-up social entrepreneurs that Skees Family Foundation is proud to support share several common traits. They are nimble, community-based, and are fiercely dedicated to the clients they...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: Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on January 23, 2021. Related Grantee: Bean Voyage.
Editor’s Note: Skees Family Foundation has been working with Bean Voyage for several years now, and we just love the work they are doing. By Sunghee Tark (left) and Abhinav Khanal (right), Founders of Bean Voyage Four years ago, at the early stages of Bean...Read more