The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman.
The vision of the foundation is to foster a society of economically independent indviduals who are engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities. They carry out their vision through the four programmatic areas: Entrepreneurship, Advancing Innovation, Education, and Research and Policy.
They focus their grant making and operation on two areas, advancing entrepreneurship and improving the education of children and youth.
The Kauffman Foundation is providing $100000 grants to UNC as well as Carnegie Mellon and the University of Missouri System for the “Innovation Fellows” ...See all stories on this topic...more
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The $75 million initiative of Wallace Foundation was lunched to provide urban students with a more high quality education.
The recipients for the initial grants totaling $9 million include BELL...more
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