The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation, Inc. aims to enhance the nation’s economic literacy. For over 70 years, it has supported and funded a diverse range of projects to improve economic and personal finance education across various educational levels using traditional and new technologies. It focuses on creating and distributing educational materials, investing in teacher education, and supporting initiatives that make economic education accessible in non-traditional learning environments, thereby working towards making economics a required part of the curriculum in more states.
The Foundation endorses initiatives aiming to elevate economic literacy and personal finance understanding among different populations. Specifically, its current interests include promoting economic education among youth outside traditional school settings, exploring behavioral economics with emphasis on environmental issues, enhancing economic education in under-served communities, organizing online competitions, fostering entrepreneurship education, improving marketing strategies to expand economic education's reach, generating enthusiasm for economic and financial education, and supporting economic education programs in states recently mandating such curricula.