STEELE-REESE

The Steele-Reese Foundation is a charitable trust committed to supporting rural communities and the tax-exempt entities that serve them in Idaho, Montana, in the Native nations that share the geography, and in Appalachian Kentucky. Since its inception, the Foundation has maintained a focus on the unique challenges of rural living and on helping people build healthy, successful, and sustainable communities... The Steele-Reese Foundation supports education proposals benefiting pre-kindergarten and K-12 school-aged children for all Appalachian Kentucky counties... Eleanor Steele Reese was born in 1893 and grew up in New York City where her father, Charles Steele, was a partner of J.P. Morgan. When she finished her schooling, she left the East Coast to pursue a serious musical career as an opera singer in Europe and across the United States for two decades. At the beginning of World War II, she settled briefly in Connecticut, and when her marriage came to an end (she had no children) she..

Also known as: Steele-Reese Foundation, The Steele-Reese Foundation

Primary location: Lexington United States