Kellogg Foundation Awards $16.7 Million to Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship also is aligned with the education priorities set by the Obama Administration. Speaking at the April meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, President Obama challenged states to raise STEM standards, attract new and qualified STEM teachers, and enhance the preparation and training of those teachers.
Responding to the challenge, Gov. Granholm has made improvements to Mich.’s education system a key part of the economic recovery plan for her state, pledging to double the number of college graduates, and launching an initiative to better train algebra teachers.
Based in Battle Creek, Mich., the Kellogg Foundation focuses its grants on programs that improve the lives of vulnerable children. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship matches the Foundation’s goals of building innovative partnerships that create stronger conditions for learning and increasing students’ ability to become productive members of society.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has a history of administering successful fellowship programs and preparing new generations of leaders. It is respected within and beyond the higher education community. Since the 1980s, the Foundation also has forged partnerships between schools and universities in order to improve professional development for teachers.
About W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Established in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and southern Africa.
About the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation identifies and develops the best minds for the nation’s most important challenges. In these areas of challenge, the Foundation awards fellowships to enrich human resources, works to improve public policy, and assists organizations and institutions in enhancing practice in the U.S. and abroad.
