Categorized as: About us, Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling, Youth on November 23, 2019.
Editor’s Note: The last half of 2019 saw both growth and challenges from our grantee partners. I am struck by the universally positive and resourceful approach our partners take to roadblocks that sometimes come their way. Whether it’s getting children to...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories, Youth on November 9, 2019.
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Education Bridge.
The Education Bridge team Editor’s Note: Skees Family Foundation began working with Education Bridge in 2019. They received a Generational grant, given by the third generation of the Skees family. Our vote to work with them was unanimous, which, if you have ever had a...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Girls & women, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories & Tagged as: Eggpreneur, Entrepreneurship, Farming, Kenya, Poultry, Social innovation, Stanford University on October 18, 2019.
By Suzanne Skees, Skees Family Foundation founder/board chair and MY JOB Book Series editor, with Matthew Dickson, Eggpreneur founder The Power of an Egg Hatching more chicken eggs in rural areas where women farmers already live, increasing their productivity,...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth on October 5, 2019.
Related Grantee:
CREA Nicaragua.
Pahola, CREA’s Administrator, at our first office in Limón 1, Nicaragua Editor’s Note: CREA Nicaragua became part of the Skees Family in 2019. We were so impressed by their resiliency and flexibility through multiple hardships, especially being such a young...Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories on September 21, 2019.
Related Grantee:
KadAfrica.
KadAfrica girls harvesting at Kasisi site. Editor’s Note: Skees Family Foundation began working with KadAfrica in 2019. KadAfrica working in Uganda, where unemployment is high, familial resources are stretched, and girls are often overlooked for opportunities for...Read more
