The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation makes grants to organizations, initiatives, and researchers who are on the cutting edge of advancing economic education.
Donor Name: The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/10/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $25,000
Details:
The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation is a small, non-profit private foundation with limited resources. The Foundation will look most favorably at programs that match grants of support with funds from other organizations, learning institutions, universities, colleges, internal funds, and government sources. The Kazanjian Foundation does not support projects that are based outside of the United States and will not support overhead or indirect costs.
Foundation’s current funding interest includes but not limited to:
- Leveraging AI to increase student learning effectiveness and experience
- Efficient and innovative solutions to reach and serve more people
- Behavioral economics with a focus on environmental issues
- Economic education initiatives to under-served communities in the local states
- On-line competitions
- Offering future college scholarship to high school students demonstrating financial, economic, and entrepreneurship achievements
- Marketing capabilities to serve more population in economic education
- Programs to generate more excitement for economic and financial education
- Economic education programs in a recently mandated state
Funding Information
The Kazanjian Foundation makes grants of $10,000 to $25,000 on average and expects to be one of several funders of a project.
Eligibility Criteria
Only 501(C ) (3) nonprofit organizations with at least 5 years of history may be eligible to submit a letter of interest. The LOIs selected and approved by our Foundation board of directors may receive an invitation to submit a full proposal.
Evaluation Criteria
While a variety of considerations are used in evaluating proposals, the Foundation will pay special attention to the following:
- Significance
- Does the proposed project effectively address the key issues aligned with the
- Foundation’s funding areas with significant reach and impact?
- Plan of Operation
- Is there good potential for the proposed project to reach its stated objectives?
- Technical Soundness
- Does the applicant exhibit a thorough knowledge of current developments in economic education, and are the proposed methodologies and/or implementation designs adequate?
- Quality of Key Personnel and Reputation of the Institution
- The quality of any co-sponsoring institutions will also be considered under this criteria.
- Budget and Cost Effectiveness
- Leveraged uses of Foundation funds along with possible matching sources will be evaluated favorably.
- Evaluation
- All proposals should have an evaluation component. The Foundation is interested in knowing how the project will be measured against its stated objectives.
For more information, visit Kazanjian Economics Foundation.
