W.K. Kellogg Foundation history

In 1939, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation was preparing a national scale up of public health and education work, but instead shifted its focus and energies to the looming war.

Steve Jobs was born in 1955 and raised by adoptive parents in Cupertino, California.

Back in Silicon Valley in the autumn of 1974, Jobs reconnected with Stephen Wozniak, a former high school friend who was working for the Hewlett-Packard Company.

In 1976 he helped launch Apple.

In 1983 the company recruited PepsiCo, Inc., president John Sculley to be its chief executive officer (CEO) and, implicitly, Jobs’s mentor in the fine points of running a large corporation.

He would later be renowned for his insistence that the Macintosh be not merely great but “insanely great.” In January 1984 Jobs himself introduced the Macintosh in a brilliantly choreographed demonstration that was the centrepiece of an extraordinary publicity campaign.

But Jobs’s apparent failure to correct the problem quickly led to tensions in the company, and in 1985 Sculley convinced Apple’s board of directors to remove the company’s famous cofounder.

Over the following decade Jobs built Pixar into a major animation studio that, among other achievements, produced the first full-length feature film to be completely computer-animated, Toy Story, in 1995.

In 2003 Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and the following year he underwent a major reconstructive surgery known as the Whipple operation.

Since the idea was first advanced in 2007, WKKF has focused on rapidly piloting and testing mission-driven investing as a new approach to make positive change to advance the well-being of vulnerable kids and their families.