THE FOUNDATION

With the goal of enhancing children's learning through experiential, innovative programming, the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation was launched in 1974. As a private international operating foundation, it creates and directs new paradigms for children's learning.

FOUNDATION PROGRAMS

• Kohl Education Prize
• America's Children's Museum on Wheels: StoryBus
• Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards
• Kohl McCormick Academy of Outstanding Educators
• Kohl International Teaching Awards
• Kohl Children’s Museum, Glenview, Illinois
• Kohl Teachers’ Centers, Illinois and Israel

THE PRESIDENT

Dolores Kohl, Chair and President: Inherited a spirit of giving and helping others from her Jewish immigrant parents, Max and Mary Kohl. Launching the Foundation in 1974, she brought all her resources — money, yes, but new thinking, connections, and her teaching background — to take an active, full-time role, going beyond making grants to running Foundation projects. She collaborates with educators all over the world, including members of the Foundation advisory board.

PROGRAMS

America's Children's Museum on Wheels: StoryBus

Kohl Education Prize

Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards

Kohl International Teaching Awards

William Hurt, Charles M. Schulz, Oprah Winfrey, and Dr. Shinichi Suzuki are just some of the luminaries who received our Media and Lifetime Achievement Awards

The Dolores Kohl Education

Foundation supports the

development of early literacy

skills through innovative

programs.