Category Archives: The Rose Publication
2022 Annual Report
by: The Skillman Foundation | Sep. 11th, 2023 We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for. We began 2022 cresting through a time loop somehow. Suddenly the Covid numbers were skyrocketing again, higher in many cases than before. Work and school switched back in time, too. Remote work, remote learning, teachers afraid of exposure in the […]
Read more »Follow the Will of Detroit Youth (with 2021 annual reporting)
by: | Nov. 14th, 2022 Follow the Will of Detroit Youth Music: “Inconceivable Power” by Na Bonsai (@na_bonsai)A letter from Skillman Foundation President ANGELIQUE POWER Whenever we begin a new chapter in our lives, it signals endless possibilities ahead. The desire to begin anew often overshadows the need to study what’s come before, to learn […]
Read more »2020 Annual Report
by: The Skillman Foundation | Oct. 12th, 2021 » How Are The Children? « The Skillman Foundation was founded with the mission to help children thrive and excel into adulthood. Supporting this mission means we constantly seek to understand the factors that stand in the way of young people’s happiness and prosperity. When the pandemic […]
Read more »60th Anniversary Report (with 2018-19 Annual Reporting)
by: The Skillman Foundation | Dec. 9th, 2020 Rose Skillman was a generous philanthropist whose personal mission was to protect and nurture children. After decades of generous personal giving, Rose Skillman incorporated The Skillman Foundation in December of 1960. Over our 60-year history, The Skillman Foundation has invested nearly $670 million to bolster children and their communities. View significant initiatives, impacts, and milestones across our history in our 60th anniversary report.
Read more »Who Will Lead Detroit (with 2017 annual reporting)
by: | Dec. 14th, 2018 This publication, produced in 2018, features stories and artwork by inspiring Detroit youth. ‘Who Will Lead Detroit” also highlights community members who live day in and day out for Detroit kids and provides information about the Foundation’s 2017 grantmaking and changemaking efforts. 50 People Who Represent the Heart of Detroit […]
Read more »Kids Matter Here: An Analytic Review of the 10-year Good Neighborhoods Initiative
by: The Skillman Foundation | Jan. 4th, 2018 In 2006, the Skillman Foundation set out to change conditions for Detroit kids by creating the 10-year, $120-million Good Neighborhoods Initiative. To best understand the outcomes of the long-term neighborhood-based work, we worked with a variety of evaluators, residents, stakeholders, grant partners, staff and trustees to form a series of analyses and dialogues. Together, […]
Read more »2015 Annual Report
by: Natalie Fotias | Dec. 1st, 2016 This publication features stories on the legislative wins garnered by the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren, the My Brother’s Keeper Detroit Innovation Challenge, a story authored by a Detroit youth on his experience of finding a mentor after growing up with little guidance, and a letter […]
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