Category: The CSF Family
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CSF Alumnus Alex Olea Calls on Fellow Alums to Stay Involved and Join the CSF Alumni Network
The following post was originally written as an email from CSF Alumnus and recent NYU graduate Alex Olea to CSF alumni who are now in college, inviting them to join the CSF Alumni Network. We liked what Alex said so much, we wanted to share it on this blog also! My involvement with the Children’s…
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Hats Off to CSF’s Participating Schools
By CSF President Darla M. Romfo This week we had the opportunity to host representatives from several largely independent private schools where CSF supports children on scholarship. The purpose of the meetings was to get the schools more familiar with our new scholarship management data base, but it ended up being an opportunity for our schools…
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New Study Finds CSF Alumni Persist in College
We are very pleased to share the results of a new study on Children’s Scholarship Fund alumni from New York and Omaha by Stanford professor Eric Bettinger and his team. Although we internally survey our scholarship alumni annually to find out if they graduate high school on time and what their ongoing plans are, this…
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Remembering Andrew Coulson
By CSF President Darla M. Romfo It was only after hearing about Andrew’s death that I realized he must have been no more than 30 when he wrote the very compelling book, Market Education: The Unknown History. I knew when Ted Forstmann gave me a copy to read in 1999 that it must be an important book and that…
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CSF Families Support Education Tax Credit in Albany
This Tuesday, a group of CSF Scholars, parents, and alumni travelled to Albany with CSF President Darla Romfo to support the Education Scholarship Tax Credit, which would empower many more New York families with scholarships. The group, including CSF alum and College of Saint Rose sophomore Kimberly Walch, CSF parents Soula Adam and Sara Libeyeme, and Sara’s children, Farida…
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Kate Baker Named to Head Children’s Scholarship Fund’s New Hampshire Office
Granite State businesses have an exciting role to play in improving educational opportunities for New Hampshire’s children in 2016. The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) recently announced it has hired Kate Baker to head its New Hampshire operations, and Kathy Lauer Rago to serve as Program Manager, effective January 1st. Upon receiving all necessary state approvals,…
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“I look at my life and I see that education is the key to everything.” – CSF Mom Sara
CSF Mom Sara is a single parent to her children, Farida and Fawzane. Farida is a CSF Scholar currently in the fourth grade at St. Charles Borromeo School in Harlem. CSF alum Fawzane graduated from St. Charles last year and is now a freshman at St. Raymond’s High School for Boys in the Bronx.…
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Team CSF Races for Scholarships
On Sunday, November 1st, three Team CSF members – Kristin, Mackenzie, and Nicholas – ran the 2015 TCS New York City Marathon for Children’s Scholarship Fund. In addition to running 26.2 miles to fundraise for us, Kristin orchestrated several “Sweat for Scholars” events – a series of fitness workshops with 100% of the ticket sales and donations…
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CSF Scholars to Meet Pope Francis at East Harlem School Visit
One of the most highly-anticipated stops on Pope Francis’ U.S. tour this week is his planned visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School (OLQA) in East Harlem on Friday. There, he will meet a group of students who attend OLQA and several other nearby Catholic schools. We are pleased to note that hundreds of…
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You Took a Risk by Investing in My Future: Meet CSF Alumna Julissa
Julissa Tejeda attended St. Simon Stock and graduated from Aquinas High School in 2014. Now, Julissa is studying civil engineering at Columbia University and interned at the New York City Department of Design and Construction over the summer. Q&A with CSF Alumna Julissa Transitioning to college: “It has been an interesting and a humbling experience. All…
