Summit Foundation

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  • N Network
Description

The Summit Foundation is a private family foundation established in 1991. We are committed to a world where people can thrive and nature can flourish. We seek to promote the health and well-being of the planet – its people and its natural environment – by achieving gender equality, protecting the earth’s biodiversity and making cities livable. In line with Sustainable Development Goal 5, the Equality for Women and Girls Program's vision is that girls and women achieve full equality and are fully empowered, valued by their families and communities, and have viable pathways to quality education, health, employment and fully participate in civic and political life.

Primary Functions
  • Capacity building/Technical assistance
  • Funding
  • Networking/Convening
Secondary Functions
  • Policy Development/Implementation
  • Research - project evaluation
Geographic Scope
  • Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
  • Post-secondary
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
Other
  • Transition from school to work
Other skills
  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
Cross-cutting topics addressed
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Masculinities/boys
  • Mentorship
  • Migration
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Sports
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
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Current girls' education partners

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Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website

Summit Foundation


Headquarters location(s)
  • Washington, D.C., , United States of America
Office location(s)
  • United States of America
Contacts
Kathy Hall
Director, Equality for Women and Girls
khall@summitfdn.org
+12029122900
Summit Foundation

Locations of current girls’ education work

Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs

  • Belize
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
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