Correcting the narrative: Black and Latina women are losing jobs
Most News Headlines Leave Out People of Color: Sample Headlines from Jan. 8, 2020: “The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. All ...
Jobs
Dismantling structural racism removes barriers to capital
At a time when Black and Brown-owned businesses have been hardest-hit by COVID-19 and the related economic crisis, Association for Enterprise Opportunity and ...
Impact Investing
Every available tool
In addition to grantmaking, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s mission investment work taps the power of capital markets to improve the lives of children, ...
Jobs
One size doesn’t fit all
If no two communities are the same, their challenges and solutions will be just as distinct. Take Biloxi, Mississippi, where W.K. Kellogg Foundation ...
Leadership
Connect. Grow. Lead.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network (WKKF CLN) with the Center for Creative Leadership is an innovative program for leaders to connect, ...
Visionary leaders rise to the occasion
W.K. Foundation’s decades-long legacy in leadership development stretches across generations, continents and sectors. The 80 diverse and dynamic leaders from across the U.S. ...
Education
The business case for investing in child care
Increasingly, business and civic leaders are focusing on equitable opportunity as a driver of economic growth. In Mississippi, leaders like Scott Waller, president ...
Education
Shared data moving the needle for young children
In 2014, just 15.5% of Battle Creek’s children were ready for kindergarten. By 2020, that rate has more than doubled to 39.2%. Improvement ...
Community Engagement
Connected futures
In March of 2020, when COVID-19 closed school districts across the country, it wreaked havoc on the lives of children and families in ...
Impact Investing
Responsive, affordable banking services closing Mississippi’s racial wealth gap
Southern Bancorp Inc. provides affordable personal and business financial products and services to communities often ignored and abandoned by mainstream financial institutions in ...
