Category: CSF Event
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CSF President Honored by Tri-County Scholarship Fund
This fall, Tri-County Scholarship Fund, a CSF partner program offering private school scholarships to low-income children in Morris, Passaic, and Sussex counties in New Jersey, honored both J. Peter Simon and CSF President Darla Romfo at its annual dinner. More than 600 people came out to support the honorees and the scholarship recipients the Fund…
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CSF Co-Hosts Panel on Stemming School Closures
More than 130 people turned out last week for a panel discussion titled “Saving Catholic Schools,” co-hosted by Children’s Scholarship Fund and three other organizations. The event followed the recent announcement by the Archdiocese of New York that 27 of its schools are at risk of closing at the end of this school year. The…
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CSF Goes to the Movies
This past Thursday, Children’s Scholarship Fund brought together CSF parents, teachers, school administrators, supporters, and friends to a preview screening of Won’t Back Down. The new movie stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis as two determined mothers, one a teacher, who will stop at nothing to give their children a better education. What a great…
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Celebrating CSF Partner Program Events!
CSF partner programs across the country are busy signing up new families for scholarships starting next fall and shepherding current scholarship recipients through the requalification process. But several are also celebrating their successes with gala lunches, dinners, and graduations. Here’s a line-up of CSF partner program special events this spring: This past Wednesday, CSF Portland held…
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Letter from CSF President: Charter Schools Are Not the Only Choice
By Darla Romfo One day last week I had the privilege of taking a CSF donor to a school where we are helping 99 children with scholarships. On the same day I appeared on a panel with two leaders from high-performing charter schools with many locations in New York City. Mt. Carmel Holy Rosary (MCHR)–where…
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CSF Philadelphia’s Lottery Day Celebration
Getting a phone call from a stranger is often associated with those unsolicited sales calls you try to avoid. But imagine getting a call from someone you never met before telling you that your child has won a scholarship to a private school? That’s what happened earlier this week when CSF Philadelphia held its first…
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CSF – Climbing the Charts with Your Votes!
We have already reached Week 10 of the 12-week voting cycle of the Members Project contest, and we appreciate the time you have taken to vote and spread the word since late November. Right now, CSF is in second place, but we are climbing the charts. With only three more weeks left before the voting…
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Whitney Tilson Addresses CSF Event on the Need for Education Reform
On the eve of the 11th anniversary of CSF’s first lottery day on April 21, 1999, CSF hosted Whitney Tilson at the English-Speaking Union in midtown Manhattan, where he gave his much sought after presentation titled, “A Right Denied: The Critical Need for Genuine School Reform.” Mr. Tilson, co-founder of Democrats for Education Reform and…
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Join CSF on April 20th
CSF is hosting an evening with Whitney Tilson, Managing Partner of T2 Partners and Co-Founder of Democrats for Education Reform on Tuesday, April 20th. Come learn more about CSF and hear Mr. Tilson discuss school reform. His presentation is titled A Right Denied: The Critical Need for Genuine School Reform. Mr. Tilson is very active…
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The Rock Band Experience
Last night, CSF had the pleasure of joining O.A.R. at the Hard Rock Cafe for the kickoff concert for the 2009 global Imagine There’s No Hunger campaign to benefit WHY, a nonprofit that fights hunger and poverty in America and around the world. O.A.R. has been a longtime CSF supporter (see previous O.A.R. activities) and…