Family Engagement
October 12, 2015.
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Girlbosses: Six Women in Our Family Step Up to Lead Our Social-Change Work
Categorized as: Stories on June 7, 2014.
Photo courtesy of Sincerely Media on Unsplash. Editor’s Note: Today we look inward to write about some exciting changes happening within the Skees Family Foundation. This year, we’ve expanded our board of directors, welcoming new family members across three...Read more
Survey Results Are In; First Year Reviewed
January 15, 2012.
Feedback from family members on this interactive website and how you’re using the foundation programs. We’ve begun to come together! Entering our eighth year as a foundation (since 2004), we tried out some new ideas last year (2011): creating an elegant...Read more
We Are NEXUS
Categorized as: About us, Asia, Education, Leadership, Stories, Storytelling on June 8, 2019.
The attendees of NEXUS Asia 2019 Summit, photo courtesy of Yudai Ishibashi. By Brienne Skees, Program Officer and VP of Research and Data Management Editor’s Note: In their own words, NEXUS catalyzes new leadership and accelerates solutions to global problems. Their...Read more
Radical Collaborators: Co-Designing Grants with Our Partners
Categorized as: About us, Grantmaking strategy, Stories & Tagged as: Boards, Collaboration, Grantmaking, Strategy on February 10, 2018.
Editor’s note: This piece first appeared in our 2017 Annual Report. By Suzanne Skees, Founder, Board Chair, and Storyteller Our family believes that if you’re going to collaborate, you ought to begin by asking how you can help. We’ve restructured...Read more