Feature Story

A Foundation Changes Course

Kellogg’s complex overhaul, new focus challenge its staff and raise questions for its grantees.

Almost eight decades after its founding, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is embarking on the kind of complex, fundamental overhaul of its mission and process that foundations rarely try – one that will affect every current and would-be grantee, and everyone who works with or for Kellogg.

Over the ensuing months and years, the youth field will watch as this large foundation attempts a course change that is both ambitious and tricky.