Application and sharing of knowledge
Knowledge exchange creates the groundwork for a positive future. Valuable knowledge includes the wisdom of elders, new technologies, and recent scientific breakthroughs. These grantees unleash knowledge trapped in institutions and tap the resources of community members.
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Build on strengths
Committed “to seeing the glass half full,” these grantees build on knowledge, family, and culture, for the benefit of the whole community.
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Community participation
People who know and care for their neighbors are more likely to take responsibility for their neighborhoods. These grantees built strong communities from core assets, like volunteerism, extensive networks, quality relationships, cultural knowledge, strong churches, and loving families.
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Connected communities and engaged institutions
Connecting communities with institutions provides pathways for deep and sustained change. These grantees developed university-community partnerships, community outreach programs, and authentic community partnerships.
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Empower / strengthen / revitalize
Organizations, groups, families, and individuals have core values and purposes. Building capacity for positive change is often a process of developing and connecting new skill sets with these core strengths.
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Engaged youth
Building future leaders may be the single most important outcome of the Foundation’s work. These grantees achieved it by fostering skill development, personal growth, and new forms of youth involvement.
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Establishing learning around philanthropy and volunteerism
Philanthropy and volunteerism are cornerstones of the Foundation’s work. These grantees helped to advance knowledge and practice in the field of philanthropy, and fostered the notion that everyone is capable of giving in their own way.
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Invest in the future
These grantees encourage civic participation and skill building as a way to create healthier futures for individuals and communities.
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Investing in the underserved
Investing in the assets of the underserved is an ideal investment, because it directly benefits individuals, families, and communities that are most in need.
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Leadership
Leadership can be a lever for positive change. This thread runs through all of the Foundation’s grantmaking. These grantees found success by developing new leaders and turning advocates into leaders – and leaders into advocates.
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New and diverse voices
Respecting differences leads naturally to new and diverse voices. These successful grantees cross boundaries of race, gender, culture, class, and faith. Their new voices bring innovation, energy, and make the hoped-for possible.
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Partnership and collaboration
Uncommon results can be achieved when individuals and organizations work together for a common goal. These collaborative partnerships harnessed the power of teamwork, sharing ideas, and networking.
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Policy change
Policies include laws and regulations as well as the rules governing organizations. Policy change can be accomplished through public-will building, educating decision-makers and policy makers, and providing tools for effective communications.
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Sustainability
It’s a challenge to develop a successful program and then ensure it has the broad resources and effectiveness to stay viable and sustainable over time. Successful grantees document their results and tell their story persuasively.
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These Insights were derived from grantee projects: From Battle Creek to Botswana, every Kellogg Foundation project has its own story to tell. Yet even across boundaries of geography and culture, certain commonalities do exist. And taken together, the hard-earned experiences and practical wisdom of Foundation grantees have great value. The categories were created based on an analysis of transcripts taken from interviews with Kellogg Foundation grantees in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and southern Africa. Each category illuminates a distinct aspect of human innovation, and shows how grantees have applied the Foundation’s resources to the problems of people.
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