Grant

Overview

<p>The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has always recognized the power of providing grants to partner organizations that we knew were already working hard to improve the lives of urban children living in poverty. By aligning with organizations that are already making a difference, we continue to make an immediate impact on the lives of thousands of children.</p> <p>There’s no shortage of challenges in education, family economic stability and childhood health. To meet these challenges head on, it’s essential that we’re nimble in our approach. That’s why we use a range of financial tools and structures to support our work. In addition to our core grant making, we also use a selective, mission-driven impact investment strategy to help develop specific products and tools, as well as spur new markets that serve the poor, and we employ direct service agreements when an opportunity calls for specialized expertise.</p> <p>We seek to fund projects that directly serve or impact children living in urban poverty, particularly in the areas of education, family economic stability (including microfinance) and childhood health.</p> <div><strong>Eligible Programs:</strong><br><strong>Urban Education</strong>: We're committed to helping underserved students improve academic performance and increasing access to quality education<br><strong>College Success</strong>: One of our founders' original goals for the foundation was to ensure that disadvantaged students have the same opportunity to get to and graduate from college or university.<br><strong>Health and Wellness</strong>: Our goal is to improve the health and wellness of all children by increasing access to healthy opportunities while building demand for healthy options</div>