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Please make checks payable to: The Inner-City Scholarship Fund/Catholic Schools Foundation

Mail to:

Catholic Schools Foundation

Inner-City Scholarship Fund

260 Franklin Street, Suite 630

Boston, MA 02110

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The Importance of Your Support:

§ Your gift makes a significant impact. At some organizations a gift of $5,000 or $10,000 is another drop in the bucket. With the ICSF, every incremental gift of $1200 works out to one scholarship or more importantly one student helped.

§ You have a chance to help one of the most at-risk populations in America. Over 50% of the students are living below the poverty level and living in single parent homes.

§ Our schools do extremely well at low cost of tuition. Yet, even an elementary school tuition average of $3,432 is far too high for most of our families.

§ We are creating taxpayers at no cost to taxpayers. If Catholic Schools in Massachusetts were to go away, it would cost cities and towns over $500,000,000.

§ There are over 2.3 Million in prison in America and one of the most common characteristics among them is being a drop-out. In Massachusetts alone it costs over $42,000 a year per prisoner. This is a waste of lives and money. Most of these people could be living normal lives if they received a good education.

§ Students receiving scholarships are independently means-tested in order to insure that donor dollars are going to the poorest kids. All families are expected to pay something. They must be committed to the education of their child in order to receive a scholarship.

§ This is for all children. In fact, in Boston, the schools are 23% non-Catholic and 70% non-white. Although in some schools, the number of non-Catholics approaches 70% and 99% non-white.

§ It is not much of a carrot to award a scholarship in September when schools start. Your support early in the year allows us to let families know in the spring that this opportunity is available to them and that if they enroll there will be help for them to make it happen.

§ We also address other non-academic barriers to education in order to optimize the impact of scholarship support.

§ Even with tremendous support over the past two decades, the need is still enormous. It is great news that over 5,000 students are being directly helped, but with over 15,000 young people in the inner-city schools, it means that 10,000 kids are getting zero.