• Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Subscribe
Skees Family Foundation
Menu
  • Home
  • About
      • Board
      • Financials
      • Grantmaking
      • Resources
      • History
      • Our Mission
      • Skees Impact Methodology
      • Skees Family Foundation FAQs
      • sunflower
    Close
  • Stories
      • Africa
      • Asia
      • Education
      • Job Creation
      • Latin America
      • Our Partners
      • Pacific Islands
      • Poverty Alleviation
      • Storytelling
      • U.S.
      • View All Stories
      • sunflower
    Close
  • Causes
      • Africa
      • Asia
      • Caribbean
      • Current Partners
      • Education
      • Family Discretionary
      • Job Creation
      • Latin America
      • Legacy Partners
      • Middle East
      • Pacific Islands
      • Poverty Alleviation
      • Storytelling
      • U.S.
      • View All Grantees
      • sunflower
    Close
  • Family
  • Subscribe
        • Subscribe to Seeds of Hope

      Close
      • Close
    A Most Shining Star Disappeared: R.I.P. John Medo

    A Most Shining Star Disappeared: R.I.P. John Medo

    Categorized as: About us, Africa, Education, Grantee, Our Partners, Stories, Storytelling, Youth & Tagged as: Dreams, Family, John Medo, Scholarship, The School Fund, Tragic death, Tribute on April 2, 2016. Related Grantees: Advancing Girls Education: AGE Africa, Akilah Institute for Women, Asante Africa Foundation, Kiretono Resource Centre through AID Tanzania.

    By Suzanne Skees John’s brother Eli says: “We don’t want to say goodbye. He was a dream boy–one of our most shining stars disappearing–as simple as that.” This week, my dear young friend John Medo, the inspiration for and first...Read more

    Subscribe to Seeds of Hope

    Recent Stories

    Thoughts From Uganda: Stories of Pivoting Through the Pandemic

    Legacy of Love: Honoring Jasmine & Hugh Skees

    Philanthropy’s Pandemic

    Beyond Dollars: Tangible Resources for Non Profits and Funders in 2021

    Preserve International

    Story Categories

    • Youth (61)
    • U.S. (28)
    • Storytelling (53)
    • Social-impact investments (23)
    • Poverty Alleviation (96)
    • Pacific Islands (16)
    • Our Partners (114)
    • MY JOB book and community (13)
    • Middle East (21)
    • Leadership (66)
    • Latin America (39)
    • Job Creation (81)
    • Grantmaking strategy (25)
    • Grantee (101)
    • Girls & women (80)
    • Education (87)
    • Caribbean (29)
    • Asia (42)
    • Africa (74)
    • About us (61)

    Contact Us

    For more information, contact us at [email protected]
    Skees Family Foundation
    PO Box 309
    Ballston Spa, NY 12020

    Subscribe to Seeds of Hope

    Seeds of Hope

    From our foundation director.
    Seeds of Hope logoStories from a journalist’s notebook about poverty and injustice being overcome one person, one project, one village at a time. What we sow, even at the grassroots level, does reap impact in the world we are changing together.

    Latest Tweets

    • #Bookworms on a budget: Get your copy for 99c! #October #KindleDeal: amzn.to/2ndV9Rs. Real #jobs, true… twitter.com/i/web/status/11798…

      October 3, 2019 6:11 pm

    • RT @Rworkshops: "Expansion for Resonate Means Amplifying Women’s Confidence in Kenya" Read about Resonate's recent efforts towards… https://t.co/BKFL72uBjT

      September 27, 2019 4:33 pm

    Latest Story

    Thoughts From Uganda: Stories of Pivoting Through the Pandemic

    April 10, 2021 3:45 am

    Editor’s Note: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a deep impact... Read more →

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Subscribe

    © 2021 · Skees Family Foundation