Category: The CSF Family
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Swimming from Alcatraz
We just found out our CSF partner programs have some very intrepid athletes! Rachel Elginsmith, Executive Director of the BASIC Fund, CSF’s partner in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently swam 1.5 miles from Alcatraz to the mainland! With a time of only 44 minutes, Rachel finished third in her age group in the Alcatraz Challenge…
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A Former Student Reports to the Principal’s Office
By Darla Romfo, CSF President I just had lunch with the new principal for St. Mark the Evangelist School in Harlem (where 45 CSF Scholars attended in 2010-11), and was reminded again of why we do what we do at CSF!! The new principal’s name is Antwan Allen, and he actually attended St. Mark’s from…
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A Trip to Chinatown
Recently CSF had the pleasure of meeting with students from Transfiguration School. Located in New York City’s vibrant Chinatown community, Transfiguration was originally founded in 1832 to educate the children of immigrants. Today, Transfiguration is a high-performing pre-K through 8th grade school whose students consistently receive superb marks on NY state exams as well as…
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CSF Gets 4-Star Rating – Five Years in a Row!
Good news! For the fifth consecutive year, Children’s Scholarship Fund has earned a four-star rating (the highest possible) from Charity Navigator, the premier charity evaluator. Only 6% of the 5,500 charities rated by Charity Navigator earn the top rating five years running. According to Charity Navigator: “Children’s Scholarship Fund consistently executes its mission in a…
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The Other Wes Moore: Opportunities Seized and Lost
Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore, learned about a man who shared his name when both men were featured on the same page of a Baltimore Sun newspaper in 2000: one in an announcement about the latest class of Rhodes Scholars, the other in a crime story about the botched robbery that landed…
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Graduation Season for CSF Scholars
Here at CSF, the graduation season is in full swing. Almost every day, we hear from another CSF 8th grader who is graduating from private elementary school. All of our graduates are looking forward to high school and most are already thinking about college. We are encouraged to note that the National Center for Education…
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1999 CSF Scholar Joins Class of 2011
What a pleasant surprise it was to open the mail yesterday and find a college graduation announcement for Matthew P., one of the very first CSF Scholars back in 1999. Matthew is graduating this Friday from California State University, Dominguez Hills with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, and now he plans to go on…
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CSF Celebrates with Friends of Nick
This week, CSF had the pleasure of joining our friends at Friends of Nick at their annual awards ceremonies where they announce essay contest winners who will win 4-year private high school scholarships (quite an honor!). Friends of Nick is a character building program created in memory of the late Nicholas C. Forstmann (brother of…
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Spring ’11 Newsletter Is Here
Spring is here, in full-swing, and so is CSF’s latest newsletter! The six-page newsletter features a lot of exciting news from our partners across the country, a brief on the parental choice movement, and a story on a reception held here in NYC celebrating our program. “The Last Word” feature highlights two very special people…
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Co-Founder of CSF of Omaha Remembered
CSF of Omaha Co-Founder and owner of Performance Automotive Group Tal Anderson is remembered in the current issue of Automotive News. In the article, former CSF of Omaha executive director Judy Tamisiea recalls Tal Anderson’s tireless efforts to fundraise for scholarships and also the joy he took in meeting the children who benefited. “Tal had…