Additional Funding Initiatives
Foundation for Teaching Economics
“Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?”
The Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), with funding from the Foundation, is undertaking to create a set of classroom ready materials and lesson plans for high school history, social studies, and economics teachers entitled “Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?” The new unit will provide professional development for teachers based on the voluntary National Standards for Economics Education. The lessons will contain the rationales for the concepts covered and how they fit into the curriculum.
The actual lesson plans will be based on the scholarly research of professors, eminent economists and scholars of ethics (including Nobel Laureate and free enterprise advocate Dr. Douglass C. North). The FTE will coordinate and sponsor one day, in service training sessions for 3,000 economics, history, and social studies teachers.
Junior Achievment International
“Web-Based Interactive Global Business Ethics Curriculum & Annual Global Business Competition"
The Foundation has awarded a challenge grant to Junior Achievement International (JAI) to develop and implement a global business ethics program and annual business ethics competition.
The program's primary goal is to help young people understand how to make conscientious, ethical business decisions and help them realize their responsibilities to communities and global society as a whole through character enrichment awareness.
Junior Achievement (www.ja.org) is the world's oldest, largest and fastest-growing nonprofit economic education organization. JA operates in thousands of communities across the U.S. through a network of 156 offices. Junior Achievement International (www.jaintl.org) is responsible for developing and serving JA programs in 112 countries. Over 5.5 million young people participate annually in JA programs around the world.
Foundation for Research in Economics & Edcuation
“The Entrepreneur in Youth”
This book project will produce one of the most comprehensive assessments to date of high school student aspirations, knowledge, opinions and education about entrepreneurship. A key strength will be the book’s longitudinal approach to analyses, contrasts, and interpretations, made possible by nine extensive national surveys of high school youth and other groups conducted by the authors and the Gallup Organization from 1994 to 2002 and including responses from about 15,000 participants.
A remarkable finding is that there is a great pool of untapped potential for entrepreneurship among the nation’s youth: all high school youth, regardless of gender, race, or ethnicity are keenly interested in starting a business, demonstrating the broad “sociologically horizontal” trend towards the pursuit of entrepreneurship.
Institute for Human Studies
“Globalization Education Project”
By launching a Globalization Education Project with the help of the Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) aims to tap into college students' manifest concern about globalization and promote consideration of free enterprise principles and their relation to the alleviation of poverty.
With the emergence of an increasingly interconnected world economy has come an energetic discussion about the effects of "globalization" on the world's poor.
The Globalization Education Project at IHS seeks to open up debate on these issues among students by:
• Creating an interactive educational website.
• Conducting an educational summer seminar on the globalization debate.
• Initiating an essay contest to encourage students to think critically about globalization and poverty.
• By targeting concerned college students through these various channels, the Globalization Education Project seeks to engage them in dialogue on the crucial question of what makes for human flourishing.
