Categorized as: About us, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories on February 16, 2019.
Related Grantees:
Agora Partnerships,
Beneficial Returns.
Our family huddled around at the end of our amazing trip to Mexico! Editor’s Note: In 2017, Skees Family Foundation board members were gifted a very unique opportunity. The JasmineHugh Heart Fund was created, which is a privately funded grant program that allows board...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Job Creation, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories & Tagged as: Impact Assets, Impact investing, Innovations for Poverty Alleviation, Village Enterprise Fund on February 2, 2019.
Related Grantees:
African Entrepreneur Collective,
Bean Voyage,
Jibu,
KadAfrica,
Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania,
LivelyHoods,
The BOMA Project,
Upaya Social Ventures,
Working Capital for Community Needs.
Cover photo: Village Enterprise students graduate out of poverty by completing their small-business training program. Editor’s note: How do you know if your impact investments are actually having impact? One way is how our newest partner, Village...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, 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 7, 2019.
Editor’s Note: We had an amazing year at Skees Family Foundation. We made a lot of changes and are really looking forward to a great and productive 2019. Thanks to all of our partners and all of our readers for your hard work and dedication! Brienne Skees,...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Middle East, Our Partners, Pacific Islands, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling, U.S., Youth on December 8, 2018.
Related Grantees:
Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa,
African Entrepreneur Collective,
Agora Partnerships,
Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti),
Destiny Foundation through Cents of Relief,
Educate Lanka,
JAAGO Foundation through the Jolkona Foundation,
Medha,
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum,
Resonate,
StrongMinds,
Tomorrow’s Youth Organization,
Voix & Actions,
Women LEAD.
Sally Skees-Helly, Chief Financial Officer and Director African Entrepreneurship Collective: AEC continues to provide entrepreneurs in Rwanda with skills and mentoring to develop and grow their businesses, including many refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa escaping...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Girls & women, Grantmaking strategy, Stories on November 24, 2018.
Editor’s Note: Sally began working with Skees Family Foundation in 2014, and her roles have only grown. She started as Secretary and has moved on to Chief Financial Officer and has obtained a staff position, constantly growing our expertise as a board and on her...Read more
