Categorized as: About us, MY JOB book and community, Stories on September 12, 2020.
Editor’s Note: Want hope? Look to Generation Z (definitions vary, but we use 1995-2015 birth years). They’re powerful: They account for 10 percent of eligible voters in the U.S. elections, 40 percent of U.S. consumers, and almost one-third of the...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 11, 2020. Related Grantees: Agora Partnerships, Anseye Pou Ayiti (Teach for Haiti), Bean Voyage, Beneficial Returns, CREA Nicaragua, Educate Lanka, Education Bridge, Eggpreneur, Idea4Africa, Jibu, KadAfrica, Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation, Resonate, Tomorrow’s Youth Organization, Village Enterprise, Women LEAD.
Editor’s Note: 2019 was an incredible year for Skees Family Foundation. We reevaluated our mission, grant structure, and methodology. We made the decision to create an advisory board. We added a new family board member. It was also an amazing year for our...Read more
Categorized as: About us, MY JOB book and community, Poverty Alleviation, Social-impact investments, Stories on April 20, 2019. Related Grantees: Jibu, Agora Partnerships, Upaya Social Ventures, BOMA Project, Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation.
Editor’s Note: Suzanne Skees serves as editor of My Job Books 1 and 2, where she’s privileged to experience and publish a collection of first-person stories by courageous people working a range of jobs from eco-manufacturing to coffee coop farming, hip-hop music...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, Grantee, Job Creation, Latin America, Middle East, MY JOB book and community, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling, U.S. & Tagged as: Interns, MY JOB book, My Job videos, Storytelling on February 24, 2018.
MY JOB: Real People at Work Around the World is a compilation of vivid first-person accounts of people in unique jobs from a diverse range of cultures and sectors. Never before has such a collection of stories been gathered. Building upon the legacy of Studs...Read more