CSFP was delighted to honor Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company as our Corporate Citizen of the Year at our annual Student Award Ceremony earlier this month. We were also delighted to have CSFP Board Member and Colonial Penn President Joel Schwartz accept the award on his company’s behalf. The Jewish Exponent has more on the Ceremony and award.

Former CSFP Board Chair and education reformer, Evie McNiff works tirelessly to support education for low-income children. After bringing Children’s Scholarship Fund to Philadelphia and serving CSFP for 17 years, she is stepping down as Board Chair, but Evie McNiff has a lot to say about the state of giving and education in Philadelphia. Read more in The Philadelphia Citizen.

CSFP alumna Tatyana Lowry has a lot going for her: she graduated with honors from Cristo Rey High School, earned a full scholarship through Cristo Rey to attend Saint Joseph’s University, and has a goal to work in medicine as either a nurse or doctor. Yet her path was certainly not easy, and at just eighteen years old, Tatyana has some important life lessons to share. Read more in The Philadelphia Tribune.

What does “school choice” really mean? Is it moving to an area with a public school with high test scores? Sending your children to a magnet school? Or supplementing your child’s education with tutors, camps, and extra-curricular activities? Sharif El-Mekki, Principal of Mastery Charter School–Shoemaker Campus, explains his viewpoint on the anti-school choice sentiment expressed by people he says enact choice on a daily basis.

More than 1,600 parents, children and supporters gathered to celebrate success at the Kimmel Center Tuesday, June 13th. CSFP’s Annual Student Award Ceremony recognized the accomplishments of current and former students of our K-8th grade scholarship program, and officially welcomed our newest 2,000 scholarship students. Among CSFP Board Members and special award winners onstage, ten…

Miles Wilson, CEO of EducationWorks,  and newly appointed CSFP Board Member shares how he persevered through adversity and achieved his dreams. 

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

10-11 am

Kimmel Center
300 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA

Honoring Sharmain Matlock-Turner, Citizen of the Year and Colonial Penn Life Insurance, Corporate Citizen of the Year In addition to honoring the contributions of our CItizens of the Year, CSFP will welcome the newest cohort of our random scholarship lottery winners to our program. This group of 2,000 students will receive their four-year, needs-based scholarships…

  “My kids are learning a lot at their school. They love their school. They don’t know what they would do without their school, and without their scholarship, I don’t know where they would be at this point.” –CSFP parent Jacquie Robinson, on the impact a CSFP scholarship has made on her family. Last night,…

Watch as CSFP staff, donors, volunteers, and current families gather to make calls to the newest winners of our K-8th grade scholarship lottery.