CHICAGO, July 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group
Foundation today announced that it has awarded over $1 million in grants to further support education
initiatives across Chicago. This
funding will help ensure that students continue to have access to
quality educational resources, and that learning initiatives at
every level remain impactful at a time when students and educators
face unique challenges and uncertainty.
For over a decade, CME Group Foundation has served as an
advocate for computer science and math education initiatives and
has funded transformative projects that promote real, measurable
impact from cradle to career. As the pandemic continues to
affect lives, it is critical that quality teaching and learning
resources remain available to the most vulnerable populations and
that students continue to grow and develop.
"The CME Group Foundation appreciates all those who have worked
tirelessly over the last few months to deliver vital teaching and
learning resources through an extremely challenging time," said
Kassie Davis, Executive Director of
the CME Group Foundation. "We have long-supported initiatives that
help equip students and educators with the skills and resources to
be successful, and it is critical that this work continues so that
our students stand prepared for the future."
The Foundation has approved over $300,000 in special grants to support those who
have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The disruptions
caused by the pandemic are likely to have a deep and profound
impact on Chicago's most
vulnerable populations, and this funding will address medium and
long-term challenges including recovery and rebuilding efforts that
focus on student trauma, learning loss and access to education.
Funding was also granted to support more immediate needs across the
city, including robust summer education and youth employment
opportunities and hunger relief.
A complete list of CME Group Foundation 2020 grantees
follows:
College & Career Success
- Associated Colleges of Illinois
- Empower Illinois
- University of Chicago Network for
College Success
- Better Future Forward
- OneGoal
- Intrinsic Schools
Education K-12 – Computer Science
- Computer Science Teachers Association
- Northwestern University Office of
Community Education Partnerships
- DePaul University College of
Computing and Digital Media
- University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
- Chicago Learning Exchange
- After School Matters
- Loyola University Chicago
- Museum of Science and Industry
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
- Boy Scouts of America
- Project SYNCERE
- Project Exploration
- Code Nation
- YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
- We All Code
- Universidad Popular
Early Childhood Education
- University of Illinois-Chicago Math
at Home
- Illinois Governor's Office of
Early Childhood Funding Commission
- Chicago Public Library Foundation
- Carole Robertson Center
- Metropolitan Family Services Learning Landscapes
- Council for a Strong America/ReadyNation
Special COVID-19 Response Grants
- Chicago Education Equity COVID-19 Response Fund
- Children First Fund Compassion Fund
- Greater Chicago Food Depository
- MHA Labs "Let's Save Summer"
- Chicago Department of Family and Support Services One Summer
Chicago
- Urban Initiatives
- World Central Kitchen
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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