Category: The CSF Family

  • CSF will celebrate School Choice Week with a Parent Power webinar
    CSF will celebrate School Choice Week with a Parent Power webinar

    To celebrate National School Choice Week (January 24-30, 2021) in a safe and socially-distanced way, Children’s Scholarship Fund is hosting a Parent Power Zoom webinar on Thursday, January 28th! Attendees will hear from parents, school leaders, CSF Scholars, alumni, and CSF staff at this special event celebrating the fact that parents are the first educators…

  • Behind the Mask, Holiday Episode
    Behind the Mask, Holiday Episode

    Missed today’s episode of Behind the Mask? Click above to visit Times Square with CSF Scholars Andrew and Eric of Guardian Angel School, see student artwork from Our Lady of Lourdes School, and hear music from The Nutcracker performed by the Sacred Heart School Quintet. Thank you to CSF Alumna Nicole Serrato for hosting and…

  • Donor Spotlight: Teen Tutors of Goshen
    Donor Spotlight: Teen Tutors of Goshen

    High school students Jolina Dong and Kiara Paulino recently formed a tutoring business, Teen Tutors of Goshen, to help K-8 students in need of extra academic support amid the pandemic – and they are donating 20 percent of what they make to Children’s Scholarship Fund. The girls always planned to save some of their earnings…

  • CSF Launches the Founders’ Legacy Society
    CSF Launches the Founders’ Legacy Society

    The founders of Children’s Scholarship Fund, Ted Forstmann and John Walton (pictured above), left a profound legacy when they established a program in 1998 that enabled low-income parents to choose a better academic path for their children. Though Ted and John are no longer with us, their legacy lives on thanks to the long-term commitment…

  • Behind the Mask, CSF’s new webinar series
    Behind the Mask, CSF’s new webinar series

    This fall, even though we are grateful to note the majority of CSF participating schools are offering in-person instruction five days a week, safety dictates that we cannot visit schools or host in-person events to connect you with students and their families. That’s why we decided to launch a new webinar series called Behind the Mask…

  • CSF Alumnus Francis Connolly on the need for educational choice
    CSF Alumnus Francis Connolly on the need for educational choice

    Note: This piece by CSF Alumnus Francis Connolly was originally published in Education Post under the headline, “As Usual, Education Is Not a Priority for Our Presidential Candidates.” Francis, a recent graduate of SUNY Old Westbury, is a Future Leaders Fellow at the American Federation for Children and also serves as Vice Chairman of the…

  • This October, CSF Scholars are lighting up Times Square
    This October, CSF Scholars are lighting up Times Square

    Thanks to Morgan Stanley, CSF Scholars and alumni are lighting up Times Square!  All through October, a message featuring CSF will play several times each hour on the signage at Morgan Stanley’s global headquarters as part of the financial firm’s Lights on Broadway program, which helps build awareness for the non-profits the company supports.  Watch…

  • CSF Scholars go back to school!

    Thousands of CSF Scholars went back to school this week. Even more exciting, a majority of them are back in the classroom in person, with many improvements in the virtual experience for those who chose to remain learning remotely for the time being. During these challenging times, the back to school photos they’re sharing are even more…

  • CSF participating schools prepare to welcome students back safely

    When the 2020-21 school year begins, most CSF Scholars will have the option of returning to their schools in-person, five days a week, although in the case of schools that don’t have enough space to accommodate all students at the same time, a hybrid model will be employed, with children rotating between in-person and remote learning.…

  • Young Leaders Board Members Advise CSF Alumni Virtually

    Over the summer, members of CSF’s Young Leaders Board offered guidance to CSF alumni through a series of Zoom webinars focused on preparing for college and careers, sharing their own experiences and answering questions from alumni now in high school and college. Below are some of the words of wisdom shared by the panelists. “Take…