The W.K. Kellogg Foundation provides grants for projects related to three areas of focused work: Thriving Children - to support a healthy start and quality learning experiences for all children, Working Families - to invest in efforts to help families obtain stable, high-quality jobs; and Equitable Communities - the sponsor wants all communities to be vibrant, engaged and equitable.

The sponsor has identified the following Interconnected Priorities:

--Thriving Children: to ensure children thrive, the sponsor focuses on improving access to high quality, early childhood education and education systems, where families are engaged in schools and practices are rooted in a community's cultures and languages. To support families in giving their children a healthy start, the sponsor advances models that are proven to support healthy birth outcomes, quality maternal and infant health care and children's early development. The sponsor invests in efforts that increase breastfeeding rates, especially in communities of color; that expand access to oral health care through providers called dental therapists; and that increase access to fresh, local healthy food and improve nutrition for children and families in early child care settings, in schools and across communities. To promote greater health equity, the sponsor promote community voices and leverage strategic partnerships and policy and systems changes to help families and civic leaders play an active role in making children's development and well-being central to their decision-making.

--Working Families: In the United States, the sponsor works alongside grantees and employers to widen pathways to stable, high-quality jobs and more equitable employment opportunities. The sponsor seeks to expand support for tribal-, minority- and women-owned business enterprises and to accelerate small business growth. Some families may need short-term assistance or other supports to move from poverty to financial stability, so we support efforts that inform policies and change systems to create greater economic stability for families and communities. In Mexico and Haiti, agriculture offers the strongest opportunities for families to generate and sustain income. The sponsor supports local efforts that develop, improve and strengthen agricultural production, product development, value chains and microenterprise. Grantee efforts also honor and preserve each region's cultures as part of improving their community's economic well-being.

--Equitable Communities: Advancing racial equity and racial healing, engaging communities in solving their own problems and developing leaders capable of guiding change on this scale is essential to creating vibrant, equitable communities.