Catholic Schools Foundation

Description

The Catholic Schools Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. CSF is the premier institution for granting aid to low-income students to attend Catholic elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese of Boston.

CSF changes lives by providing families with demonstrated financial need an opportunity to give their sons and daughters a quality education, focused on Christian values and character formation at Catholic Schools located throughout the Archdiocese of Boston, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or gender.

History

In 1983, Most Reverend Thomas V. Daily and Paul J. Birmingham established the St. Anthony’s Scholarship Fund to raise money for scholarships so that low-income students could attend high-quality Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Boston. This organization was later incorporated in 1989 as the Catholic Schools Foundation and shortly thereafter, theirr signature program, the Inner City Scholarship Fund (ICSF) was born. Today, over thirty years later, CSF has expanded thirty-fold with the support of donors and active members from all sections of the community – business, academia, private, and religious.