Recent W.M. Keck Foundation Annual Reports may be reviewed online and downloaded from this site in PDF format. (If you do not have Acrobat Reader, click here to install this program before selecting a report.)   3.2Mb PDF 2009 Annual Report "Community" In the past year, the Foundation through its Southern California Program, has sought to fund strategies that will help sustain organizations providing safety-net services. During the current economic situation, the survival of these organizations is vital so that people can continue to receive the basic services they need. "Community" shares the stories of several families who are benefiting from services provided by these organizations.   738Kb PDF 2008 Annual Report "Discovery" Remembering the qualities valued by our founder, the Foundation continues to be committed to funding high-impact, bold and innovative projects. Our 2008 annual report, "Discovery", highlights just a few of the important discoveries made by Keck-supported researchers recently, and presents exciting programs that foster curiosity and active learning at the undergraduate and pre-collegiate level.   2.26Mb PDF 2007 Annual Report "Field Potential" "Field Potential" reflects on W. M. Keck's commitment to field work by looking at some of our grants from the ground up, illustrating just a few ways the Foundation has prospected for potentially transformative projects in the same regions where W. M. Keck prospected for oil many decades ago.   88Kb PDF 2005-06 Financial Statements W. M. Keck Foundation Financial Statements for Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2006   3.85Mb PDF 2006 Annual Report "New Eyes" Modeled after the 1999 roundtable discussions reported in our "Promising Directions" publication, the Foundation convened similar meetings in the spring in 2006. These conversations inspired us to focus on "New Eyes" as the theme for this year's annual report. This report speaks to both new tools to visualize and synthesize data, and to new ways of seeing the data.   1.32Mb PDF 2005 Annual Report "Prospecting for Promise" "Prospecting for Promise" completes our series of reports highlighting the topics discussed in "Promising Directions." Of all the areas we have covered over the past five years, the synthesis of the enormous amount of data now available and using those data to better understand nature's complex systems has been described as the most challenging. This report introduces several research groups and organizations who are meeting this challenge and working to improve human life.   1.75Mb PDF 2004 Annual Report "Nature Inspired Nanotechnology" "Nature Inspired Nanotechnology" looks at how Keck grant recipients are deriving insights from nature — and putting them to work at the nanoscale. The report explores how nature at the nanoscale has been inspiring bold ideas and bringing people, tools and modes of thinking together across disciplines to forge new solutions.   4.9Mb PDF 2003 Annual Report "Forward Reflections" Fifty-Year Anniversary Edition "Forward Reflections," 2003, speaks to where the W.M. Keck Foundation has been during its first 50 years and where it is going. More than a retrospective or vision statement, the report presents the Foundation's origins, values and priorities in the context of an evolving grant making process.   5.2Mb PDF 2002 Annual Report "The Human Factor" "The Human Factor" profiles leaders of Foundation-funded projects across the major grant programs, expanding on one of the themes raised in the special report, "Promising Directions." These individuals embody the inspiration and dedication that are shaping key technologies and improving the quality of life for everyone.   4.4Mb PDF 2001 Annual Report "Ripples on the Water" "Ripples on the Water" was the first Annual Report to more deeply explore one of the main topics of "Promising Directions." The challenges of post-genomic biology reveal that knowledge of the DNA sequence of organisms is only a starting point for understanding life.   2.8Mb PDF 2000 Annual Report "Voices" "Voices" highlights the Foundation's Southern California Grant Program. Through prose, poetry and pictures, young people provide an eloquent statement about the importance of having a safe, supportive, and challenging environment in which to grow.   1.6Mb PDF 1999 Special Report "Promising Directions" In response to the turn of the millennium, the Foundation hosted 18 of the nation's most accomplished scientists in two roundtable discussions on the potential for and the impediments to future research in science, engineering and biomedicine. The results were summarized in this 1999 special report, "Promising Directions."