CME Group Foundation 2011 Grants

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
$125,000 over two years to support academic research in derivatives policy issues

Mercatus Center at George Mason University
$25,000 to support academic research in derivatives policy issues

New York University Stern School of Business
$15,000 to support Professor Richard Levich’s research project and presentations at financial practitioner seminars

Northwestern University
$538,000 over three years to support the creation of a Futures and Derivatives Concentration in the Business Institutions Program

University of Chicago Booth School of Business
$5,000 to support PhD student Avihay Rapaport’s research on "Identifying Supply and Demand Shocks in the Oil Market"

Review of Futures Markets
$100,000 to support the annual Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium and the Review of Future Markets journal

Sacred Heart University Department of Economics and Finance
$45,000 to support three targeted research projects and related financial practitioner seminars focused on risk management

University of Minnesota
$12,000 to support digitizing Food Research Institute Studies and Wheat Studies

University of Illinois at Chicago
$1 million over four years to the to support the College of Business Administration’s Market Training Lab

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
$450,000 over two years to support a Derivatives Markets and Risk Management Education Initiative

CME Group Foundation 2010 Grants

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
$100,000 in support of the creation of a curricular track focused on compliance.

John Marshall Law School
$100,000 over two years in support of the creation of a Global Markets Law Journal initiative.

Kent State University Foundation
$100,000 in support of the Center for Financial Engineering’s annual Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium, derivative market research and the Review of Future Markets journal.

University of Chicago
$1,000,000 over four years in support of the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.

University of Illinois at Chicago
$100,000 in support of its International Center for Futures and Derivatives.

Wheaton College
$100,000 in support of the J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government and Public Policy.

CME Group Foundation 2009 Grants

University of Illinois at Chicago $125,000 in support of its International Center for Futures and Derivatives.

University of Wisconsin Foundation $15,000 in support of The A.C. Johnson Scholarship in Futures and Price Formation in the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics.

CME Group Foundation/CME Trust 2008 Grants

Window to the World Communications, Inc. $120,000 in support of eighteen economics education segments on Chicago Tonight.

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration $250,000 in support of the International Center for Futures and Derivatives

CME Trust 2007 Grants

Loyola University Chicago
School of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business
$1,000,000 over four years in support of the Center for Integrated Risk Management and Corporate Governance

University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Business Administration
$250,000 in support of the International Center for Futures and Derivatives

CME Trust 2006 Grants

DePaul University
College of Commerce Department of Finance
$1,000,000 over four years to establish the Fred Arditti Center for Risk Management

Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
$1,000,000 over four years in support of derivatives and capital markets education

University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business
$1,500,000 over four years in support of an Initiative on Global Markets

University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Business Administration
$250,000 in support of an International Futures and Options Center

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College of Business
$1,000,000 over four years for the Initiative for Financial Risk and Markets