The Toyota USA Foundation—a charitable endowment that supports K-12 programs in the fields of math, science and environmental education—recently announced it had contributed $5.2 million in grants to eight different organizations from across the country.
Among the recipients:
- The Breakthrough Collaborative of San Francisco received $225,000 for its efforts to help students find success in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) classes.
- The College Entrance Examination Board (The College Board), in New York City, was granted $350,000 to support Advanced Placement (AP) opportunities for high-need students.
- Earning $129,000 was the Fremont (Calif.) Education Foundation, which will use the grant for a program to link high school graduation to college enrollment, as well as to support local math education.
- Groundwork Inc. received $375,000 for its Middle Ground program, designed to help elementary-school children succeed in the transition to middle school in the Brooklyn, N.Y., area.
- In Plane Ridge, S.D., the Red Cloud Indian School accepted a Toyota USA Foundation grant for $420,000, to be used to update its science equipment, curriculum and facilities.
- Granted $300,000, SAE International, located in Warrendale, Pa., will use the money to continue its ongoing “A World in Motion” program for STEM education.
- The Nature Conservancy, based in Arlington, Va., was the recipient of $3.1 million in Toyota USA Foundation grants, which will go to expanding its Leadership for Environmental Action for the Future (LEAF) program.
- Thomas More College of Crestview Hills, Ky., was the recipient of a $360,000 grant that will go to enhancing partnerships with local schools to improve student success in STEM courses and recruit more students into these majors in college.
“These grants are an investment in the future of our educators and young people, and will give them invaluable skills for the future,” said Patricia Salas Pineda, group vice president of Toyota Motor North America. “Toyota is proud to be able to support the critical work of these organizations.”
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