{"id":452698,"date":"2021-03-08T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=452698"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:03:44","slug":"cme-group-foundation-awards-over-2-2-million-in-grants-to-support-college-and-career-success-for-illinois-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/cme-group-foundation-awards-over-2-2-million-in-grants-to-support-college-and-career-success-for-illinois-students\/","title":{"rendered":"CME Group Foundation Awards Over $2.2 Million in Grants to Support College and Career Success for Illinois Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-newslines\">\n<p class=\"xn-distributor\">PR Newswire<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"xn-location\">CHICAGO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 8, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; CME Group Foundation today announced that it has awarded over <span class=\"xn-money\">$2.2 million<\/span> in grants to further support higher education and career initiatives across <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Illinois<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every stage of the pipeline from classroom to career has been impacted by the ongoing pandemic,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Kassie Davis<\/span>, Executive Director of the CME Group Foundation. &#8220;It is more important than ever to support organizations that help low-income students get to college or post-secondary training, graduate and get a strong first job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These grants include <span class=\"xn-money\">$700,000<\/span> to support CME Group Foundation Scholars. The CME Group Foundation Scholarship Program was created for minority students majoring in finance and computer science related majors within targeted universities. The scholarships will cover up to <span class=\"xn-money\">$20,000<\/span> for each recipient for the 2021-22 school year, with potential for renewal for three years up to the 2024-25 school year. <\/p>\n<p>Funding also includes <span class=\"xn-money\">$100,000<\/span> over two years to support Bottom Line, which partners with first-generation college students from under-resourced communities to help them get into and through college and successfully launch a career, as well as <span class=\"xn-money\">$100,000<\/span> over two years to support One Million Degrees, a holistic, wraparound support model dedicated to accelerating community college students&#8217; progress on career pathways to economic mobility.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, CME Group Foundation has served as an advocate for early childhood, K-12 and higher education and has funded transformative projects that promote real, measurable impact. <\/p>\n<p>A complete list of these 2021 grantees follows:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Scholarship America to support CME Group Foundation Scholars (<span class=\"xn-money\">$700,000<\/span> in 2021) <\/li>\n<li>Genesys Works (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Braven (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>\n          <span class=\"xn-person\">America Needs You<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Youth Job Center (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Wall Street Bound (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Greenwood Project (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Bottom Line (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>One Million Degrees (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>College Possible (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>UChicago Network for College Success (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Better Future Forward (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>iMentor (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>OneGoal (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Posse Foundation (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Associated Colleges of <span class=\"xn-location\">Illinois<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Partnership for College Completion (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>The Chicago Community Trust to support Progressive Pathways (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Empower <span class=\"xn-location\">Illinois<\/span> to support the Future of Illinois Program (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>\n          <span class=\"xn-org\">University of Chicago<\/span> Consortium on School Research (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Advance <span class=\"xn-location\">Illinois<\/span> to support the <span class=\"xn-location\">Illinois<\/span> 60 X 25 Network (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021 and <span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2022) <\/li>\n<li>Rock the Street, Wall Street (<span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> in 2021) <\/li>\n<li>\n          <span class=\"xn-org\">Northwestern University<\/span> to support STEAMbassadors (<span class=\"xn-money\">$50,000<\/span> in 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about CME Group Foundation, please visit the website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=319928788&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroupfoundation.org%2F&amp;a=www.cmegroupfoundation.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.cmegroupfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <b>About CME Group Foundation<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>CME Group Foundation helps today&#8217;s students keep pace with dramatically evolving technology, creating a workforce for the future that is equipped with the skills to meet tomorrow&#8217;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.\u00a0 They will shape the future of the world&#8217;s most important industries, including our own, so we give them the tools they need to achieve their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <b>About CME Group<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>As the world&#8217;s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=1412844353&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2F&amp;a=www.cmegroup.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.cmegroup.com<\/a>) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data \u2013 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\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=4228312982&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Ftrading%2Finterest-rates%2Findex.html&amp;a=interest+rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">interest rates<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=3607081872&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Ftrading%2Fequity-index%2Findex.html&amp;a=equity+indexes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">equity indexes<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=2485159535&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Ftrading%2Ffx%2F&amp;a=foreign+exchange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">foreign exchange<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=100422494&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Ftrading%2Fenergy%2F&amp;a=energy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">energy<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=2229418836&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Ftrading%2Fagricultural%2F&amp;a=agricultural+products\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">agricultural products<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=1593429773&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Ftrading%2Fmetals%2F&amp;a=metals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">metals<\/a>.\u00a0 The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3088144-1&amp;h=843053407&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmegroup.com%2Fglobex%2Findex.html&amp;a=CME+Globex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CME Globex<\/a>\u00ae platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and, E-mini\u00a0are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.\u00a0 CBOT and <span class=\"xn-location\">Chicago<\/span> Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the <span class=\"xn-location\">City of Chicago<\/span>, Inc.\u00a0 NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.\u00a0 COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec, EBS, TriOptima, and Traiana are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD, TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc., respectively. 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