About the Kafi Foundry Foundation

A foundation built to develop economically informed leaders.

Inspired by the life and teaching of Professor Farhoud Kafi, KFF helps students build the economic judgment, human judgment, and technology fluency needed to make better decisions and create opportunity.

Our purpose

Carry forward Professor Farhoud Kafi's belief in the power of education and economic thinking to create opportunity and improve lives.

VISION

A generation of thoughtful, economically informed leaders equipped to make better decisions, create opportunity, and positively shape the organizations and communities they serve.

MISSION

KFF expands access to economic education and develops future leaders through scholarships, learning experiences, mentorship, and programs that help students apply economic thinking to real-world decisions, leadership, entrepreneurship, technology, and community impact.

Our strategic approach

Three ways of thinking.

One kind of leader.

AI has changed access to information and answers. It has not removed the need for judgment. KFF helps students understand choices, opportunity, incentives, tradeoffs, risk, technology, business, communities, and an increasingly complex world.

Economic Thinking

Choices, incentives, scarcity, risk, markets, and tradeoffs.

Human Judgment

Question information. Weigh alternatives. Recognize bias. Decide with context and accountability.

Technology Fluency

Use AI and emerging tools to extend your capabilities without outsourcing judgment.

THE NAME

Why “Foundry”?

[Story behind the name — KFF to supply. Two to three sentences on what “Foundry” means to the family and to the foundation.]