Did you know that 96% of CSFP students, who leave our program in 8th grade, graduate high school prepared and on time? Compare that to the national average of just 53% of inner-city students, and you can see that our program makes a tangible difference in the lives of Philadelphia children and their families. CSF,…

With the start of the 2012-2013 school year, CSFP wants you to meet a few of the 3,500 students that are receiving our K-8th grade scholarships. Our Meet the CSFP Scholars will provide great insights into the lives of our scholarship students, their parents and schools. Without your support, these wonderful educational opportunities for children…

CSFP Executive Director Ina Lipman discussed the progress of the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program with the Philadelphia Inquirer in an article earlier this week. For a link to this Philadelphia Inquirer article, click here. Established in July, the OSTC program allows students from over 150 under-performing Philadelphia schools to pursue private educational opportunities through…

The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings recently released study conducted by Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance shows students who used privately-funded scholarships in New York City to obtain a K-12 education were more likely to attend college than a control group of their peers. In particular, the study finds a large,…

Ina Lipman, CSFP’s Executive Director, was quoted in a July article discussing the recent changes to the PA tax credit program centered on education, including the establishment of the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Program. The new program is focused on providing additional scholarships to children attending Pennsylvania’s worst-performing schools to enroll at private schools. The state…

Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia is excited to announce that we are moving. Effective Monday, July 30th, our new address is 100 South Broad Street, Suite 1200, Philadelphia, PA 19110. Our staff will be moving between Friday, July 27th and Monday, July 30th, so please keep this in mind when contacting our office. Although our mail…

CSFP Executive Director Ina Lipman addressed 225 people in attendance at the sold out Main Line Society of Professional Women (SPW) event on June 21st. Ina described CSFP’s mission to provide four-year, K-8th grade scholarships to low income Philadelphia families and spoke about CSFP’s exciting Campaign for 10,000 Children. The campaign marks CSFP’s goal to…

Also honored were art & essay award winners, college-bound CSFP alumni, and corporate donor Mass Marketing Insurance Group On June 15th at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Phillies, CSFP welcomed 2,000 new Philadelphia families into our scholarship program. This is the largest new group of scholarship recipients CSFP has ever had. We are beyond…

Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia’s Board President and CSF National Board Member Evie McNiff participated in Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s education roundtable, held at a Philadelphia charter school yesterday. At the event, Romney voiced his support for high-quality parental choice in education, calling for federal funds to follow every child, whether their parents want to…

Help make a great investment in the life of a Philadelphia child at little or no cost . The Educational Improvement Tax Credit program was established in 2001 to provide businesses with a tax credit for their donations to nonprofit Scholarship or Education Improvement organizations . The PA Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) provides companies…