CME Group Foundation Awards Nearly $3 Million in Grants to Support Kindergarten Readiness and K-12 Programming in Chicago and...

CHICAGO, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Foundation today announced that it has awarded nearly $3 million in grants to further support kindergarten readiness and K-12 programming across Chicago and Illinois.

"CME Group Foundation is proud to support to these innovative programs and the critical work they are doing for our students and our community," said Kassie Davis, Executive Director, CME Group Foundation. "Our mission is founded on equipping our children with the resources to achieve academic and career success, while also creating a future workforce that benefits the economy more broadly. We look forward to working alongside our grantees to empower future generations through education."

These grants include $1,275,000 in support of kindergarten readiness programs, which will help to better equip children for later academic achievement, and $700,000 in grants to support K-12 programming with a strong focus on computer science, financial education and personalized learning through technology.

The CME Group Foundation also awarded a special grant of $1,000,000 to the Obama Foundation in support of its Chicago programming, which includes partnerships with My Brother's Keeper Alliance Chicago and Chicago Public Schools. This funding will support programming that works to increase the number of male educators of color in the educator pipeline in Chicago and will serve as a model for the rest of the country. This funding will also support the Obama Foundation's work towards building civic youth leaders in Chicago.

For over a decade, CME Group Foundation has funded transformative projects that promote real, measurable impact and has helped to prepare K-12 students for success in college and careers through the use of technology and computer science education.

A complete list of CME Group Foundation grantees follows:

Kindergarten Readiness

Illinois State University
Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL)
Big Shoulders Fund
Carole Robertson Center
Chicago Public Library Foundation
Christopher House
Children First Fund, the Chicago Public Schools Foundation
DeKalb Regional Office of Education
Erikson Institute
Fred Rogers Productions/WTTW
Holy Family Ministries
Illinois Action for Children
Juvenile Protective Association
Kohl Children's Museum
LEARN Charter Schools
Metropolitan Family Services
Purpose Foundation
Start Early
Teach for America
Teach Plus
University of Chicago STEM Ed
University of Illinois-Chicago
Waterford Institute

Education K-12 – Financial Education

Children First Fund, the Chicago Public Schools Foundation
Everfi
Junior Achievement

Education K-12 – Computer Science

University of Illinois Champaign Urbana
STEMConnector
After School Matters
Boy Scouts of America
Chicago Learning Exchange
Chicago Pre-college Science & Engineering
Chicago Youth Centers
ChickTech
CPS Children First Fund
Code Nation
Deaf Kids Code
DePaul University
Distinctive Schools
Field Museum
Illinois Science and Technology Institute
Loyola University Chicago
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Project Exploration
Project Lead the Way
Project Syncere
Union League Boys and Girls Clubs
Universidad Popular
We All Code
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

Education K-12 – Use of Technology to Personalize Learning

SAGA Innovations

Special Grants

Obama Foundation
GreenLight Fund
Mikva Challenge
Civic Consulting Alliance

For more information about CME Group Foundation, please visit the website: www.cmegroupfoundation.org.

About CME Group Foundation

CME Group Foundation helps today's students keep pace with dramatically evolving technology, creating a workforce for the future that is equipped with the skills to meet tomorrow's global challenges. By bringing together the brightest minds in education to generate fresh approaches to early math, computer science, personalized learning, and college and career success, we are sparking system-wide change that benefits all students, from cradle to career. They will shape the future of the world's most important industries, including our own, so we give them the tools they need to achieve their full potential.

About CME Group

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.

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