The Louis Calder Foundation
175 Elm St.
New Canaan, CT 06840
Telephone: (203) 966 -8925
Contact: Holly Neuchterlein, Grant Prog. Mgr.
Fax: (203) 966-5785
E-mail: proposals@calderfdn.org
URL: www.louiscalderfdn.org

Financial Data (yr. ended 10/31/07): Assets: $175,905,805; Total giving: $7,075,623

Limitations
Giving primarily in the greater NY metropolitan area, and communities along the Northeast
Corridor, with populations no greater than 500,000.

Purpose and Activities
Giving primarily in the area of K-12 education 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.

Geographic Focus
New York

Types of Support
Building/renovation Capital campaigns Curriculum development
Matching/challenge support
Program development

Application Information
Full proposals may only be submitted if requested by the foundation. The foundation accepts
the NYRAG application form, which is available on the web site. The foundation has issued a
RFP seeking background letters from charter and parochial schools, charter management
organizations and community based organizations for initiatives to develop comprehensive
content based core curriculum education programs. Please see the foundation's web site for
additional information. Application form required.

Initial approach: Letter of inquiry
Copies of proposal: 1
See foundation's website for deadlines Final notification: Process can take several months

Unsolicited Proposals
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 grant making 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.

Selected Grants
The following grants were reported in 2007:

• $1,257,000 to Core Knowledge Foundation, Charlottesville, VA. For K pilot of Core
  Knowledge
• Reading and development, payable over 1 year.
  $500,000 to Cristo Rey High School, New York, NY. For building renovations, payable
  over 1 year.
• $250,000 to New Schools for New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. For school investment
  fund, payable over 1 year.
• $208,000 to Cathedral Education Cluster, Bridgeport, CT. For literacy initiative, payable
  over 1 year.
• $100,000 to Achievement First, New Haven, CT. For charter school expansion, payable
  over 1 year.
• $100,000 to KIPP Star College Preparatory charter School, New York, NY. For
  expansion, payable over 1 year.
• $100,000 to Teach for America, New York, NY. For expansion in Connecticut, payable
  over 1 year.
• $75,000 to Leadership Prep, Friends of, New York, NY. For curriculum expansion,
  payable over 1 year.
• $75,000 to National Council on Teacher Quality, Washington, DC. For elementary
  teachers mathematics preparation, payable over 1 year.
• $75,000 to South Bronx Classical charter School, Friends of, Bronx, NY. For Core
  Knowledge curriculum, payable over 1 year.
• $75,000 to Village Academies Network, New York, NY. For extended day and after -
  school programs at charter Schools, payable over 1 year.
• $59,000 to Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Washington, DC. For reviving Catholic schools
  study, payable over 1 year.
• $50,000 to summer on the Hill, Riverdale, NY. For support, payable over 1 year.