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Suzanne Skees
Skees Family Foundation

Suzanne Skees serves as founder and board chair of Skees Family Foundation (launched in 2004), whose one hundred U.S. and global partners have created 37 million jobs. She’s also the editor of the social mission book series “MY JOB: Real People at Work Around the World.”

Based on the California Central Coast, Suzanne travels from schools to slums, prisons to farms, serving as a storyteller for unsung heroes who toil every day to end poverty and create equality.

Articles by Suzanne Skees

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Wednesday
April 10
2019

Suzanne Skees

Paycheck, Please: Why Jobs Are Better Than Charity

Those of us who “won the zip code lottery” by being born in a prosperous country often take for granted something that’s out of reach for many people around the world: a stable and satisfying job. Suzanne Skees explores how the Skees Family Foundation leverages the power of dignified, secure jobs to fight poverty – and highlights what they've learned from partner organizations about how to maximize the impact of job creation efforts.

Categories
Entrepreneurship, Investing

Tags
employment, global development, impact investing, jobs, NGOs, philanthropy, poverty alleviation, small business, SMEs, social enterprise, social impact, social innovation, sustainable business

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Articles by Suzanne Skees

Paycheck, Please: Why Jobs Are Better Than Charity

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Articles by Suzanne Skees

Paycheck, Please: Why Jobs Are Better Than Charity

Suzanne Skees
Skees Family Foundation