Students analyze organisms under a microscope at Clearpool's Discovery Lab, a rural educational center serving inner-city children. Photograph courtesy of Clearpool, Inc.
Programs - Education
Corporate Responsibility: Development of research and teaching programs
that improve understanding and effectiveness of corporate governance.
Financial Literacy: Initiatives that educate the investing public
about the fundamentals of the financial markets, with a particular emphasis
on programs that develop financial and economic literacy.
Policy and the Capital Markets: High-level research and teaching programs
that deepen understanding of public policy and the capital markets.
Improving Childhood Education: Programs that provide effective learning
programs on the K-12 grade levels, particularly to under-served youth.
Education Grants in
Arab-American Family Support Center
Youth Development program
$10,000
Bank Street College of Education
Liberty LEADS: The Bank Street Center for Leadership ad College Preparation
$25,000
Better Investing/National Association of Investors Corporation
Building Wealth-Investment education programs
$85,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Mentoring programs for at-risk youth
$10,000
Catholic Big Sisters Big Brothers
Skill-based programs for high-risk, low-income girls
$15,000
Creating an Environment of Success/Youth About Business
Summer Business Camp Program
$10,000
Community for Education Foundation
Overcoming Obstacles program
$50,000
Foundation for Investor Education, Inc.
Stock Market Game
$150,000
Junior Achievement of New York, Inc.
Financial Education programs
$60,000
Literacy Partners, Inc.
"Economics for Life"
$20,000
Museum of American Finance
"Trading on the Street" exhibition
$115,000
New Jersey SEEDS
Money Musts
$15,000
Partnership With Children, Inc.
Open Heart-Open Mind program
$50,000
Rutgers University Foundation
Subscription to the WRDS system at Rutgers
$35,000
Salvation Army of Greater New York
GAINS program
$25,000
Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
Virtual Museum and Archive of SEC and Securities History
$25,000
Tax Assistance Program
Financial Literacy Program
$10,000
University at Albany Foundation
Program in Financial Market Regulation
$10,000
Working in Support of Education, Inc. (WISE)
Financial Literacy Certification Program
$20,000
YMCA of Greater New York
"Virtual Y" After-School Program
$100,000
*
A Foundation director or officer serves as a trustee, director, officer or employee of this grantee organization. The Foundation director or officer appropriately disclosed that a “Grantee Conflict of Interest” exists, and did not participate in the final discussion or vote of the Board on the proposed grant.
