NEW GRANTS FOR AUGUST 2016

The following proposals were approved for funding by the Kellogg Foundation in August 2016 .

Grantee Name

City

State

Country

All Our Kin, Inc.

New Haven

Connecticut

United States

Baton Rouge Area Foundation

Baton Rouge

Louisiana

United States

Berea College

Berea

Kentucky

United States

Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Washington

District of
Columbia

United States

Children's Museum of Manhattan Growth

through Art & Museum Experience, Inc.

New York

New York

United States

Council of Michigan Foundations, Inc.

Grand Haven

Michigan

United States

CSUSB Philanthropic Foundation

San Bernardino

California

United States

Driving Force Group, Inc.

Rockville

Maryland

United States

Limn

Costa Rica

Escuela de Agricultura de la Region Tropical

Humeda
San Jose

Purpose Statement
Amount
Start Date End Date
create high-quality, sustainable family child care
options that meet the needs of Connecticuts children,
families and family child care providers by
expanding the Quality Showcase and Business
$620,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
Consulting programs
improve healthy living opportunities for children by
supporting immediate critical relief and services for
low-income communities and communities of color
and supporting community-informed, long-term
recovery efforts in flood-impacted communities in
$1,000,000 8/1/2016
1/31/2018
Louisiana
improve the well-being of young children and their
families living in very remote areas by delivering
early education and family economic mobility
$720,000 9/1/2016
9/30/2019
coaching through a mobile readiness bus
improve healthy living opportunities for children by
supporting community-informed, long term recovery
efforts in flood-impacted communities in Louisiana
$200,000 9/1/2016
9/30/2017
achieve school readiness in children ages birth-5 by
supporting families and adult caregivers through a
new citywide initiative that will develop a unified
system of resources, workshops, and training
$245,000 9/1/2016
10/31/2017
support a data transparency project to create a suite
of services that provide for data aggregation, analysis
and visualization across all social sector, especially
state government to improve outcomes of vulnerable
$1,645,120 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
children and families
improve mathematics teaching and learning for
English Learners in pre-K through grade three
classrooms by professional development to educators
$450,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
focused on teaching mathematics
increase third grade reading achievement for black
males in the primary grades through a community
$1,700,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2019
and school engagement approach
strengthen the organizations capacity to ensure
future agricultural higher education opportunities for
economically disadvantaged youth by supporting an
$40,000,000 9/1/2016
6/30/2099
endowed fund

Grantee Name

City

State

Country

Foundation for Hope and Health in Haiti

Uniondale

New York

United States

Foundation for Louisiana

Baton Rouge

Louisiana

United States

Greater New Orleans Foundation

New Orleans

Louisiana

United States

Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool

Youngsters USA

Little Rock

Arkansas

United States

Idaho Association for the Education of Young

Children, Inc.
Boise

Idaho

United States

International Development Exchange

San Francisco

California

United States

KORE Foundation, Inc.

Gallatin

Tennessee

United States

National Law Center on Homelessness and

Poverty

Washington

District of
Columbia

United States

Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners, Inc.

New York

New York

United States

New Venture Fund

Washington

District of
Columbia

United States

Purpose Statement
Amount
Start Date End Date
increase prenatal, neonatal, postnatal, maternal and
infant care services in Arcahaie and Ile-a-Vache,
Haiti, by hiring healthcare professionals, training
birth attendants, upgrading clinic facilities and using
health agents to reach residents in remote rural areas
$661,000 8/1/2016
8/31/2018
provide funds to assess a new model for fiscal
sponsorship services that explicitly integrates racial
equity values and strategies to sustain and support
institutions led by and impacting communities of
$20,000 8/1/2016
7/31/2017
color by supporting the feasibility study
improve healthy living opportunities for children by
supporting immediate critical relief and services for
low-income communities and communities of color
and supporting community-informed, long-term
recovery efforts in flood-impacted communities in
Louisiana and Mississippi
$1,000,000 8/1/2016
9/30/2017
improve child care quality and school readiness skills
of young children by developing coordinated, contentrich curriculum and training for families and home$280,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
based child care providers
strengthen community awareness and demand,
through research and education, about the importance
of affordable quality early learning programs for
$450,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2019
children in Idaho
advance food sovereignty transnationally through
South-South and North-South learning exchanges
between partners from Mexico, Haiti, Brasil and
USA and knowledge products development to
$200,000 8/1/2016
8/31/2017
promote agroecology
create income generating opportunities for families in
the Central Area of Haiti through market access,
technical and business assistance to smallholder
poultry farmers, a distribution center to assist poultry
farmers, and expansion of smallholder poultry
$500,000 9/1/2016
2/28/2018
enterprise (SHPE)
ensure homeless children have access to school and
school services, through outreach, training, policy
advocacy, public education and impact litigation
$150,000 9/1/2016
2/28/2018
deliver a proven approach to enhancing low-wage job
quality and to converting hard-earned wages into
financial security via the integration of financial
capability programming into specific employment
sectors and enhanced technology capabilities
$1,500,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
broaden access to high quality employment services
for low-income working parents of color by
establishing a joint funding collaborative to develop
and test employment technologies that will best serve
$1,000,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
that target population
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Grantee Name

City

State

Country

ParentsTogether Foundation

Washington

District of
Columbia

United States

PolicyLink

Oakland

California

United States

ServeMinnesota

Minneapolis

Minnesota

United States

Summits Education

Boston

Massachusetts

United States

Tennessee Charter School Center

Nashville

Tennessee

United States

United Way of Lane County

Springfield

Oregon

United States

Young Men's Christian Association of

Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc.

Atlanta

Georgia

United States

YouthBuild USA Inc.

Somerville

Massachusetts

United States

Purpose Statement
Amount
Start Date End Date
create a diverse national network of families with
children, ages zero to three, to act as advocates on
child and family issues through a functional
$400,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
organizing approach
provide funds to support the Reserves and Growth
Capital Funds to strengthen the financial health of the
organization by providing stability
$2,000,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
improve the quality of child care and early child care
settings by providing literacy interventions,
professional development and support to early
childhood programs and home-based child care
$400,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2018
centers
Improve teacher skills, students performance and
administration of a network of schools in the central
area of Haiti through construction of a multi-purpose
facility that will serve as teacher training and
education administration center
$503,000 8/1/2016
1/31/2018
increase education outcomes of children by building
the leadership of families to participate in the school
incubation process through a charter school
$500,000 9/1/2016
4/30/2018
leadership program
improve kindergarten readiness of low-income
children by partnering in a social innovation fund that
will expand the Kids in Transition to School program
that focuses on early literacy and self-regulation
development
$600,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2019
prepare children to enter kindergarten ready to learn
and to empower caregivers to be the childs first
teacher through the Caring and Learning with
Me/Cuidandome y Aprendiendo Juntos program
$250,000 9/1/2016
8/31/2017
increase employment and income generating
opportunities for marginalized youth in Arcahaie,
Haiti, through two existing training centers,
development of new training programs and planning
$430,000 8/1/2016
7/31/2018
of a new multi-purpose training center