Categorized as: Asia, Education, Girls & women, Leadership, Stories & Tagged as: COVID response, Dipasa Bista, Online education, Personal power on November 14, 2020.
Editor’s note: I dearly hope that you and your loved ones fare well and find reasons to hope for the future during this tumultuous year. We at SFF have spent 2020 seeking out “silver linings”–or, one could say, inspiring reactions to adversity....Read more
Categorized as: Africa, Education, Girls & women, Grantee, Job Creation, Leadership, Our Partners, Stories & Tagged as: Information technology, Online education, Scaling on March 26, 2017. Related Grantees: Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa, Asante Africa Foundation, The School Fund, Women LEAD.
CATALYST PARTNER UPDATE: Akilah Institute in East Africa: Part 1 Our connection: Our family has been honored to support the Akilah Institute in Kigali, Rwanda, since 2012—first as friends, when I had the lucky chance to visit Akilah and meet cofounders Elizabeth...Read more
Categorized as: About us, Asia, Education, Grantee, Grantmaking strategy, Job Creation, Our Partners, Poverty Alleviation, Stories, Youth & Tagged as: Health, Jolkona, Online education, Rural education, Volunteering on June 7, 2015.
By Suzanne Skees for Skees Family Foundation Tradition of Volunteering Among Youth Here My first visit to Bangladesh shattered a lot of illusions about this country. I expected poverty, and there’s plenty. Yet Bangladesh is home to the world’s...Read more