Jon-Paul Bianchi
- Senior Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Jon-Paul Bianchi is a senior program officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role, he supports foundation efforts to promote thriving children, working families and equitable communities.
Bianchi co-leads the WKKF national grantmaking team focused on early childhood, employment equity, health and food systems. His work centers young children and their families in the context of community, early care, and school. His individual grantmaking focuses on early childhood systems and policy.
Prior to joining the foundation in 2010, Bianchi was the early childhood initiatives director at the Colorado Children's Campaign, a statewide nonpartisan advocacy and research organization. He served as staff advisor to the Early Childhood & School Readiness Legislative Commission where he authored several laws aimed at improving early childhood and creating systemic alignment between various early care and education programs in Colorado.
Other earlier positions include project assistant at the Infant-Parent Interaction Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin Waisman Center for Development Disabilities (2004-2008) and policy research assistant at the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (2002-2003). Bianchi began his career working in child care and teaching elementary school.
Bianchi holds a Doctorate of Education from the Vanderbilt University, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, a Master of Science in Child Development and a Bachelor of Science in Child and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he conducted research on medically fragile infants and their parents as part of a National Institute of Mental Health grant.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal innovator and entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.
The Kellogg Foundation is based in Battle Creek, Michigan, and works throughout the United States and internationally, as well as with sovereign tribes. Special attention is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success. WKKF priority places in the U.S. are in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans; and internationally, are in Mexico and Haiti. For more information, visit www.wkkf.org.
