The Catholic Education

Foundation of Los Angeles

The Immigrant Experience

http://youtu.be/26tzXvaaV3M

Or how Vito Corleone explains

the Internet in Italian…

• CEF changes lives by making a Catholic education possible for any student without financial means who lives in Los Angeles, Ventura or Santa Barbara Counties.

• CEF partners with Catholic Schools to offer a 21st Century education to underserved students through innovative educational programs funded by visionary donors.

Our Mission

Why CEF?

We Serve

Students

Families

SchoolsThe

Church

Society

9,000+ financial aid awards annually

Direct interaction with

parents & guardians

98% graduation & college

acceptance rate

Catholic Schools:

An Advantage for Life

Sustainability & Excellence

How CEF Serves

Education

• Tuition Assistance (TAP)• Adopt a Student

• SOS

• Challenge Matches

•Curricular Programs• Art Trek & Teacher Trek

• Big Yellow School Bus

• Sports Programs

Outreach

• Proyecto ‘Cara a Cara’

• U Notre Dame ‘Madrinas’

• CSAN• Mentorship

• ‘Access College’

• ‘Para Padres’ (New)

• CAP (New)

• Media• Azteca, Univision, Vida Nueva

Tuition Assistance

Challenge Matches Empower Schools

Help the School

Fund the Student

Elementary

$1,000

High School

$2,000

SOS

Add $500

How TAP

Programs

Work

Empowering Adults

Outreach

Cara a Caradirect application

assistance to parents/guardians

Madrinas

Libros en Casa

Para Padres (New)

community trust

home-school partnership

parent education = integration

CSANCatholic School Alumni Network

Outcomes

• Mentorship Cohort I

• Events with College Admissions Directors

• Alumni Involvement in Elementary Schools

CAPS (New)

Access College

Mentorship

Programs

Measuring Our Progress

Continuation Rates

100% 8th to 9th

grade

• 98% Graduation rate from 12th

grade

•Parents are Involved

•CEF Alumni report Impact of Catholic school education

•Principals confirm role of CEF in keeping school open

Impact & Opportunity

•Continuation & Grad Rates

•Preparation UC, Cal State Requirements

•SAT sitting rates & scores

• Impact of Catholic schools on communities served

Academic Excellence & Character Formation

• 100% Graduation rate from HS

• GPAs High

• College Acceptance = 96% with 62% at 4-yr institutions

•92% CEF students attended in 2012

•Expectation for college attendance by schools

LMU Studies - Efficacy & Promise of Catholic Schools

The Future of Catholic Schools

Immigrant

Families

Serve

Educate

SupportIntegrate

Celebrate