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To give all people a seat at life’s table of opportunity, we help eliminate the barriers that hold them back.

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Opening avenues of opportunity.

Our philanthropy is focused on helping people improve their lives through education, mentoring, job skills development and support of the communities where we live and operate. One community, one partnership, one person at a time.

Youth Entrepreneurs®

Youth Entrepreneurs

Since 1991, we’ve supported students by providing an entrepreneurial curriculum that helps them succeed in the workplace and life.

Mike Rowe WORKS Foundation

mikeroweWORKS Foundation

Through scholarship support for the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, we help students find fulfillment in skilled trades.

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See how our scholarship program with UNCF is unleashing a new generation of scholars, innovators and entrepreneurs.

Supporting Our Communities.

From start-ups to schools, our thousands of community partners include:

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Through more than 70,000 volunteer hours and $1.5 million, Koch companies have helped build dozens of homes for families in need across the country.

Big Brothers Big Sisters
 

For four decades, Koch – along with hundreds of its employees – has supported the BBBS mission of providing kids with one-on-one, life-changing relationships.

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At one private school, our dollars and volunteer hours are helping prepare little ones to do big things.

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Since 2006, Georgia-Pacific has given more than $1.75 million in funding and educational assistance to fire departments in the communities where we live and work.

Latest in Koch Giving

Check out the very latest ways we’re creating opportunity in our communities.

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 Koch Industries partners with the mikeroweWORKS Foundation to support students and elevate skilled trade

Koch Industries supports programs teaching job skills that prepare students for success. That’s why we par...

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 Robotics grant gets gears turning at inner-city middle school 

For students at one Wichita, Kansas, middle school, robotics education just got a lot more hands-on thanks to the dil...

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 The gift of logistics

Every December, there’s a man up north who delivers thousands of gifts to thousands of children. He has the hea...

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Making it personal.

Beyond our corporate charitable investments, Charles Koch and David Koch have personally given more than $2.4 billion to worthwhile causes. The collection of Koch Family Foundations & Philanthropy recipients include organizations and initiatives dedicated to societal and cultural progress, cancer research, medical centers and cultural enrichment.

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 THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND LAUNCHES NEW CENTER

TMCF launched The Center for Advancing Opportunity, supported by a $25.6 million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries, to provide undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, and grants to faculty working to establish university-based research centers on education, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, and other issues impacting opportunity in communities.

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 David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

The 750,000-square-foot, 23-story outpatient cancer center in New York City was made possible by a gift of $150 million from Mr. Koch, the largest single gift in the history of the institution.

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