Summit Foundation
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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)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
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
- Belize
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
Projects Back to Top
Project/Program
Shifting Gender Paradigms among Youth in Extreme Environments
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Stand with adolescent girls and young women during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Project/Program
Abriendo Oportunidades
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Equality for Women and Girls Program
Research Project/Report/Study
Developing a Curriculum for a Formal Education Setting to Prevent Child Marriage in Rural Areas of Honduras: A Design-Based Research Study