A Legacy of Opportunity and Hope

“Education is my top priority because I know it will give my children better lives, so I am very thankful to CSF supporters. Without your help, my children and the children of my friends and neighbors would not have the future that they now have.”
– CSF Mom Esperanza

When Ted Forstmann and John Walton launched Children’s Scholarship Fund in 1998, they knew they were changing the lives of thousands of low-income families, providing opportunity and hope.  That’s what a quality education does. But they didn’t know their investment would catalyze more than a billion dollars in support for more than 200,000 students—and counting.

Founders’ Legacy Society

When you join the Founders’ Legacy Society with a gift through your will or estate, you make this astounding legacy of hope and opportunity your own, ensuring that more K-8th grade students and their families will have the means to make a life-changing private, independent, or parochial school education part of their own family story. 

Through the Founders’ Legacy Society, you can give children the gift of a quality education and advance a future of greater educational opportunity for all children for years to come.

FOUNDERS’ LEGACY SOCIETY BENEFITS

  • Special recognition in the CSF Annual Report and at events;
  • An annual mission update from the President;
  • Exclusive briefings from CSF alumni as they make their own mark on the world and rejoin the CSF community as supporters themselves; and
  • Opportunities to share the story and intent behind your gift.

There are several ways you can join our Founders’ Legacy Society!

BENEFICIARY DESIGNATIONS

Designate Children’s Scholarship Fund as a beneficiary of a financial account, such as:

  • life insurance policy,
  • retirement account,
  • donor advised fund,
  • other financial account.

BEQUESTS

Include Children’s Scholarship Fund in your will or trust by inserting a provision containing our legal name and federal tax ID:

Sample Language: “I give, devise, and bequeath to The Childrens Scholarship Fund, an independent, nonprofit educational institution located in New York, NY (Tax ID #13-4002189), or its successor organization [% of my estate/item/asset/amount or residual amount] to be used (choose one of the following):

  • for its general support and charitable purposes without restriction.
  • for [designated purpose]. If at any time it becomes impossible or impractical for my gift to be used for the above designated purpose, Children’s Scholarship Fund shall use my gift for a purpose and in a manner that it determines most closely meets the above designated purpose.”

If you decide to make Children’s Scholarship Fund a part of your enduring legacy, please let us know!

Please complete and return this Letter of Intent form to Michele Mitola at mmitola@scholarshipfund.org or mail it to us at:

Children’s Scholarship Fund
8 W. 38th Street, Suite 804
New York, NY 10018

We will be honored to welcome you to our Founders’ Legacy Society and to thank you for your generous and lasting commitment to giving all parents a choice and children a chance to get a good education and flourish. 

CONTACT US

Michele Mitola
VP, Strategic Planning and Development
212-515-7108
mmitola@scholarshipfund.org