Inner-City Scholarship Fund was created 35 years ago to help the children in the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. They support 108 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of NY. Though some of the schools are in the poorest Congressional districts in the nation, 96% of our graduates to college.
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For the numbers!
- ICSF Website
- They do it all - scholarship programs - enrichments programs - what they really do is help children succeed when virtually everybody else in their neighborhoods fail. If a child starts at one of our schools in kindergarten - even if its St. Angela Merici in the poorest Congressional district in the United States - they have a 96% chance to go to college.
Be A Student's Friend
A. Child. A Chance. A Future.
Be A Student's Friend (BASF), a scholarship program offered by Inner-City Scholarship Fund (ICSF), matches students who are in great need of financial aid with sponsors who support their education.
Students who apply are from families who are living at the poverty level. Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of people living at the poverty level in NYC. Even in the island of Manhattan that seems to drip with money.
ICSF works with 108 school principals to find not necessarily the best and the brightest - those students have their chance to shine - but rather those who have a troubled home life and need the extra care and attention that parochial schools offer. Cathlic schools offer these children a chance to be successful.
As a sponsor of a child, you will have the chance to be a part of this child's success. You can watch them grow over time. This year 100% of our BASF students graduated from high school, 98% of them are going to college.
No investment appreciates like this one.
Students who apply are from families who are living at the poverty level. Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of people living at the poverty level in NYC. Even in the island of Manhattan that seems to drip with money.
ICSF works with 108 school principals to find not necessarily the best and the brightest - those students have their chance to shine - but rather those who have a troubled home life and need the extra care and attention that parochial schools offer. Cathlic schools offer these children a chance to be successful.
As a sponsor of a child, you will have the chance to be a part of this child's success. You can watch them grow over time. This year 100% of our BASF students graduated from high school, 98% of them are going to college.
No investment appreciates like this one.
The state of inner city education
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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Students Hard at work!
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by AnneReidy
I am a life-long New Yorker who has always wondered why NYC is so full of the haves and have nots with so little in between.
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