DETROIT, Mich. – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) will celebrate the opening of its new local office in downtown Detroit today, Tuesday, Dec. 17. Based in Battle Creek, Mich., the Kellogg Foundation works with diverse leaders, grassroots organizations, institutions and other community partners to ensure that Detroit’s children are well-educated, healthy and living in economically secure families.
The foundation’s new office, located at 28 W. Adams Ave., Suite 1650, in downtown Detroit, will house WKKF’s dedicated Detroit program staff, which includes Program Officers Sharnita C. Johnson, Linda Jo Doctor and Edward Egnatios and Program Manager Lan Pham. The local office will enable program team members, who already reside and work in and around Detroit, to remain close to the community to support its needs and learn from community members.
“At the Kellogg Foundation, we strive to identify and support community-led solutions and to make grants that are responsive to community needs, particularly in our priority places like Detroit,” said La June Montgomery Tabron, WKKF’s current executive vice president for operations and treasurer, and incoming president and CEO. “The issues facing children and families in Detroit appear locally and require local solutions, and our new office in Detroit will position the Kellogg Foundation and its local team to be an even more effective community partner.”
Since 1933, WKKF has invested nearly $260 million in Detroit to support children and their families in Michigan’s largest city. In the last year, the foundation invested about $25 million in grants in the city to improve conditions for Detroit’s children.
