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Arizona Independent Schools Scholarship Foundation
"The Arizona Independent Schools Scholarship Foundation was founded in 1998 to provide tuition aid to students with verified financial need attending an independent, non-profit school in the state of Arizona. The member schools must be members of the National Association of Independent Schools, be non-profit in status and must ascertain true financial need for the proposed recipients."
Arizona School Tuition Organizations
Organizations which channel funds allocated from Arizona's 1998 law governing funding of private schools.
BASIC Fund
"The BASIC Fund (Bay Area Scholarships for Inner-City Children) is a privately funded program whose mission is to broaden the educational opportunities for inner-city children by helping low-income families afford the cost of tuition at private schools in the Bay Area."
B.E.S.T.
"The Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust (B.E.S.T.) encourages, supports and increases educational opportunities for talented, economically disadvantaged African-American Students from the Baltimore metropolitan area."
A Better Chance
"The A Better Chance Scholars Program is the oldest and largest of A Better Chance's programs. At its core is the College Preparatory Schools Program, complemented by Career Services and Alumni Relations."
BISON Scholarship Fund
"BISON is designed to give parents a full range of choices about their children's education. Families awarded a BISON scholarship will be able to enroll their child in a private grammar school (K-8th Grade) of their choice in the Buffalo area."
Black Student Fund
"The combined programs of the Black Student Fund are unique to the nation. Our strong student and family support, essential services, financial aid and child advocacy are coupled with programs that improve cross-racial relations in the schools and community."
The Central City Scholarship Fund
"To provide needs-based financial assistance to low-income families so that their children may attend a diocesan Catholic School or Early Childhood Center in the Diocese of Kansas City ~ St. Joseph."
Children First
Mission: "To promote parental choice in education through private tuition grants and tax funded options, giving all families the power to choose the K - 12 school that best fulfills the hopes and dreams they have for their children."
Children's Education Fund (Dallas)
"We strive to prevent great kids from falling into the category of at-risk by providing scholarships that allow parents to send their kids to the private school of their choice and by encouraging the creation of high-quality charter schools."
Children's Scholarship Fund
"Giving parents a choice, giving children a chance."
The Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation (Chicago)
"The Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation (DMSF) is a non-profit organization that provides four-year high school scholarships and educational support services to economically disadvantaged Chicago eighth grade students who demonstrate academic potential in order to ensure they are properly prepared for college."
FloridaChild
"Florida has now made available two types of tuition vouchers for K-12 students that follow them to government or non-government schools. These are the Opportunity Scholarships and the McKay Scholarships for Children with Disabilities. These are parental choice programs."
The Independent Scholarship Fund
"The Independent Scholarship Fund (ISF) is a privately funded scholarship program of The Independent Institute that provides tuition assistance to low- to moderate-income families in Contra Costa and Alameda counties. The mission of ISF is to help families achieve freedom of choice in the education of their children."
Inner-City Scholarship Fund (Boston)
"The Catholic Schools Foundation, Inc., through its Inner-City Scholarship Fund (ICSF), grants scholarship assistance annually to needy inner-city students who attend primary or secondary parochial schools in the Archdiocese of Boston."
Inner-City Scholarship Fund (New York)
"Since 1971, Inner-City Scholarship Fund has invested in the lives of hundreds of thousands of children who live in some of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City."
Prep for Prep
$12 million in scholarships available. Dynamic program from a group of New York City business leaders.
Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children
"Our scholarships are given to students primarily attending Catholic elementary and secondary schools in New Jersey's Essex, Hudson, Bergen and Union Counties."
Washington Scholarship Fund
"We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping underprivaledged District of Columbia children an opportunity to pursue a quality education. Currently, over 1,300 students receive tuition assistance from WSF attending 118 different private schools."
YES Opportunities, Inc.
Offers a listing of organizations who assist with private school scholarships and related funding activities.
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