The Nike Foundation started in 2004, to seek the best investment to end global poverty with the highest returns. In 2008, the Nike Foundation partnered with the NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation and Coalition for Adolescent Girls to create the Girl Effect.
The Nike Foundation helps girls around the world to fulfill their potential by providing grants. The grants also include:
- Giving girls in Nigeria the chance to stay in school,
- Helping girls in India to claim equal rights to inherit and own land,
- Giving girls across Rwanda critical health information and mentoring.
Nike School Innovation Fund – The Nike School Innovation Fund’s mission is to fuel excellence in education through the power of innovation. Through the fund, Nike pairs its executives with local schools to implement programs that have a big impact on students and schools. Previously, the fund gave $9 million over five years to support early learning and leadership development programs. Today, the Nike School Innovation Fund focuses on accelerating career and college readiness for 9th graders in Oregon.
Nike Employee Grant Fund – The Nike Employee Grant Fund makes grants of $550,000 per year to nonprofit organizations in the greater Portland area, near Nike’s global headquarters. The primary goal is to support programs that create early positive experiences for young people through physical education, sports, and play.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit organizations and schools in the Portland, Oregon, metro area may qualify for cash grants from the Nike Employee Grant Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation.
- Nike will not support organizations that discriminate against a person or a group on the basis of age, political affiliation, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
- Nike does not accept unsolicited cash proposals.
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