Categorized as: Education, Leadership, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling, U.S. on June 13, 2020.
Editor’s Note: As Dr. Phillip Goff shared, we are ‘buckling in’ and need you to join us at all levels to end police violence and mass incarceration, but also to eradicate implicit bias and systems that uphold white supremacy and uplift and value Black lives. To...Read more
Categorized as: Education, Leadership, Stories, Storytelling on June 6, 2020.
Editor’s Note: The following article was published in Good Black News, a site created by Lori Lakin Hutcherson when she realized that there were no sites available to publish the positive things black people do. We at SFF have decided to step back from our...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Education, Grantee, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling on May 2, 2020.
Editor’s Note: Last week we had the honor of hosting a Zoom meeting with several of our nonprofit partners to touch base with them and provide a forum for them to meet each other and talk about how their organizations are doing, how they are personally doing, lessons...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Grantee, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Storytelling on April 4, 2020.
To all of our readers and our partners, we simply wanted to take a minute to say how appreciative we are for you and the work you do. We know these are unprecedented times we are facing, and many of us are struggling, whether with illness, with financial...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