50 THE QUEENS COURIER • CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS • JANUARY 16, 2020 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
Catholic High Schools
Help Catholic schools by investing in ‘Futures in Education’
BY MCGEORGE SORENSEN
For many families across Brooklyn
and Queens, sending their children to
a Catholic grammar school may be an
impossible task because they have low
incomes and cannot aff ord the yearly tuition,
which runs into thousands of dollars
annually.
Th at’s where Futures in Education comes
in.
Th e nonprofi t organization operated by
the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens holds
all kinds of fundraisers each year to help
parents across the diocese aff ord a Catholic
education for their children. Futures in
Education also establishes partnership
with private donors and organizations to
enable schools to have updated curriculums
and the proper tools needed to educate
their students, and to assist teachers in
refi ning their craft through training programs.
Th ere are a litany of ways private donors
can contribute to Catholic education
through the Futures in Education. One
way is the “Be an Angel to a Student”
Program, in which an individual can help
cover the cost of a Catholic school student’s
tuition every year starting at $1,500. Angels
also get to know the students they are helping
by exchanging notes, cards and drawings;
all Angels receive progress reports
on how they’re students are performing
in class.
Each Angel gets to meet their students at
the Angel Reception, an annual celebration
held by Futures in Education. Th e Angels
are also invited to attend school plays,
recitals and graduation ceremonies.
“We continue to be hard at work ensuring
that every deserving family requesting
fi nancial tuition assistance receives it
through our Be an Angel to a Student and
other scholarship programs,” Msgr. Jamie
Gigantiello, vicar for development for the
Diocese of Brooklyn, said in a December
2016 letter. “However, it is not enough to
look back on only the successes of the year.
Instead, we must also focus on those students
who we were unable to assist and
fi nd additional donors willing to join us in
support of this cause.”
During the 2015-16 school year, Futures
in Education doled out more than $7 million
in scholarships to 4,873 students.
Futures in Education also works to connect
Catholic grammar school alumni with
their alma maters, and young executives
to schools around the diocese, to further
increase support for Catholic education.
Individual donations of any amount, as
always, are also accepted.
To learn more about the Futures in
Education program, or to contribute to the
cause, visit www.futuresineducation.org.
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