Grant Request Khan Academy
Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form
Organization Name: Khan Academy
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Mailing Address: PO Box 1630
City: Mountain View
State: California
Postal Code: 94042
Main Phone: 6503319319
Main Fax:
Organization Website: www.khanAcademy.org
Employer ID Number: 26-1544963
Organization Tax Status: 501c3
Proposal Information
Today’s Date: March 14, 2012
Requested Amount: 10,000
Project Title: Coach and Teacher Took-Kit:
Project Description:
Khan Academy is a 501(c)3 educational not-for-profit organization with a mission to “provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.”
We believe that students of all ages should have free, unlimited access to top-notch educational content on any topic and that students (of all ages) should be able to consume and master this content at their own pace. Khan Academy is comprised of five main elements (Content, Exercises, Data & Analytics, Teacher Took-Kit and Discovery Lab Summer Camps) that are freely available to all users through our website.
We believe that new educational institutions and models emerge at major inflection points in history and that the information revolution is one of those inflection points. With the technology that exists today, we are working to fundamentally transform education.
Sal Khan, the Founder and CEO talks about how he got started in his 2011 TED talk “Salman Khan: Let\’s use video to reinvent education“ (goo.gl/EIy4R) which has now been viewed over 5M times. A recent segment that aired on 60 Minutes also provides a great insight into our work. (http://goo.gl/XtBaF)
We would like to leverage a grant from the The Charles and Joan Hermanowski Family Foundation to continue our work developing our “Teacher Took-Kit”. Based on the work that we have been doing with several schools to implement Khan Academy in the classroom, we are creating this online “toolkit” to empower teachers, parents and mentors (who we call “coaches”) with the tools they need to leverage our content and platform in their homes and schools.
Thank you for considering our request.
Total Project Budget: Ongoing
Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): Beyond our initial startup funding from Google and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Khan Academy has received funding from Reed Hastings, the O\’Sullivan Foundation, the Valhalla Charitable Foundation, the McCall McBain Foundation, and John & Ann Doerr. We also continue to raise donations online from users who love our platform and the success they have achieved as a result of using it. See a sample of the thousands of testimonials we receive at:
http://www.khanacademy.org/stories
Project Duration: Ongoing
Geographical Area Served: The world.
Age Group To Be Served: Mainly K-12
Contact Information
Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mr.
Contact First Name: Keith
Contact Last Name: Powers
Contact Title: Head of Strategic Development
Contact Phone: 6503319319
Contact Email: keith@khanacademy.org