Corporate and Foundation Giving

We couldn’t achieve our mission without partners, and ours are best-in-class. Large or small, public or private, the organizations we team up with are filled with people who share our commitment to the world’s children and help us to make a powerful difference in their lives.

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Corporate and Foundation Giving

PNC Grow Up Great®

PNC Grow Up Great® helps prepare children from birth to age five for success in school and life. A valued Sesame partner for 15 years and counting, PNC supports learning-rich Sesame Street resources including Words are Here, There, and Everywhere and Happy, Healthy, Ready for School. Sesame friends like Elmo and Grover are featured in free, bilingual materials from digital storybooks to family guides to games and podcasts, all designed to spark curiosity, launch conversations, and make learning fun.

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is the founding partner for Sesame Street in Communities, our community-based initiative to help service providers, parents, and caregivers give children, especially the most vulnerable, a strong and healthy start. In addition to making possible the program’s research and development phase, RWJF funded its launch and pilot testing in Los Angeles, CA; Kansas City, MO, and Guilford County, NC. Now helping to bring the rich resources and training of Sesame Street in Communities to additional locations across the United States, RWJF continues to support the creation of new Sesame content and resources as well as the impact research that will ensure the program’s success and continued growth.

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The LEGO Foundation

In December 2018, the LEGO Foundation awarded a landmark $100 million to Sesame Workshop to bring the power of learning through play to children affected by the Rohingya and Syrian refugee crises. The grant will benefit some of the world’s most vulnerable children and call attention to the critical importance of learning through play to set them on a path of healthy growth and development. The program builds on the Workshop’s established relationship with the LEGO Foundation, which funded two initiatives bringing play-based learning to South Africa. In the Johannesburg area, Play Every Day empowers caregivers to engage with children in ways that contribute to their early development and learning outcomes. In the Eastern Cape, Play Well and Be Happy creates hands-on learning experiences for some of the most vulnerable children in South Africa.

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Vincent Mai

Vincent Mai is the Chairman of the Sesame Workshop Global Advisory Group and former Chairman of the Sesame Workshop Board of Trustees. The Mai Family Foundation is a critical partner of Takalani Sesame in South Africa and has been integral to the success of Takalani’s community engagement efforts and the ongoing sustainability of our work in South Africa.

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