The Louis Calder Foundation seeks to promote the educational and scholastic development of children and youth by improving academic content at charter and parochial schools and at community based organizations.
The Louis Calder Foundation Trustees believe in the values afforded by a traditional academic curriculum. Their concerns regarding the state of current American education center on the questions of what is taught, when it is taught and how it is taught. They believe that optimum academic and intellectual development will be achieved through the improvement of scholastic curricula to emphasize a uniform body of knowledge that all students should know. With a core curriculum, a set body of skills, knowledge and abilities is taught to all students.
The Foundation's grantmaking will focus on opportunities for schools and community based organizations in communities within the Northeast Corridor with populations no greater than 500,000 to undertake such efforts during the regular school hours as well as the out-of-school or extended-day hours.
New and existing charter schools, parochial schools and community based organizations are invited to submit a letter of inquiry with a summary of their plans to improve or initiate programs and projects designed to deliver classical education in areas of literacy, history, ethics, mathematics and the sciences.
The Foundation does not provide long term continuing program support and requests for renewed support are considered on the basis of reports received, site visits and Foundation priorities. A negative response does not reflect upon the merits of a proposal or the quality of an organization, but results from the fact that the number of proposals received far exceeds The Foundation's resources, or because a given project does not fall within the Foundation's areas of involvement.
Information requests and funding proposals should be directed to:
Holly Nuechterlein
Grant Program Manager
The Louis Calder Foundation
175 Elm Street
New Canaan, Connecticut 06840
Tel: 203-966-8925
Fax: 203-966-5785
Email: proposals@calderfdn.org
Web: www.louiscalderfdn.org
