Category: CSF Event
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PRESS RELEASE: Students to Perform Multicultural Dance, Music at School Choice Week Celebration
Diverse group of schools to gather to celebrate their common purpose NEW YORK CITY (Jan. 16, 2019) – Students from a variety of local private schools will perform a South African gumboot dance and showcase African drumming, gospel choir music, and Islamic poetry set to music at a School Choice Week celebration beginning at…
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I Have a Dream: A National School Choice Week Celebration
Children’s Scholarship Fund and National School Choice Week (NSCW), invite you to mark NSCW at the New York Academy of Medicine on Thursday, January 24th, 2019 from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. At the celebration, more than 400 students from a variety of private and parochial schools will gather to celebrate the diversity and high…
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CSF Celebrates 20 Years With Gala Honoring 2018 Champions for Children
In May, Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) marked its 20th anniversary with its first-ever gala, paying tribute to co-founders Ted Forstmann and John Walton and the 166,000 children who have benefitted from CSF scholarships, as well as honoring prominent philanthropists and business leaders Eli Broad and Julian Robertson as this year’s Champions for Children. …
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As CSF turns 20, equal opportunity in education remains a worthy goal
By CSF President Darla M. Romfo “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Martin Luther King Jr.’s “‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963 Fifty-five years after Martin Luther…
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CSF’s 20th Anniversary Highlighted on redefinED
CSF’s 20th anniversary was covered in a news story on redefinED, a website run by Step Up for Students, which administers tax credit scholarships in Florida. Step Up for Students grew out of Children’s Scholarship Fund of Tampa Bay, a CSF partner program founded by John Kirtley in 1998.
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PRESS RELEASE: Eli Broad and Julian Robertson to be honored at Children’s Scholarship Fund’s 20th Anniversary
(May 9, 2018, New York) —The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF), a national K-8 privately funded scholarship organization, will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a gala on Tuesday, May 15th in New York City. The event will honor prominent philanthropists and business leaders Eli Broad and Julian Robertson as CSF’s 2018 Champions for Children. Since its…
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CSF Celebrating 20 Years with Gala on Tuesday, May 15th
It’s hard to believe this year marks the 20th Anniversary of the launch of Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF). We will celebrate this milestone with CSF’s first-ever gala on the evening of Tuesday, May 15, 2018 in New York City. Along with a special tribute to our co-founders, Ted Forstmann and John Walton, CSF will honor…
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CSF Joins Lively School Choice Week Celebration in NH
This week in Manchester, CSF was proud to mark National School Choice Week at a lively celebration that brought together several hundred people who braved freezing rain and icy roads! Families, students and representatives of schools and enrichment programs of all types gathered to hear remarks from Governor Chris Sununu and education advocate and charter…
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CSF Young Leaders Share College and Career Advice with CSF Alumni
This past week, CSF Young Leaders Board members met with CSF alumni at St. Jean Baptiste High School, advising the students on college and career paths, and sharing from their own experiences. Ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders enjoyed some pizza while chatting with the Young Leaders as the event kicked off. Then,…
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CSF Celebrates Champions for Children 2017
On Wednesday, April 5th, CSF celebrated our fourth annual CSF Champions for Children event, honoring Richard R. Hough III, Chairman and CEO of Silvercrest Asset Management Group, and New York State Senator Chris Jacobs. As guests arrived, they were treated to a performance by the choir of Our Lady of Lourdes School in Harlem,…
