The Children's Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Tufts Educational Day Care Center is committed to maintaining an economic mixture of families served by the program. During the early years of the Center's history, a need was recognized to provide Center-based financial assistance to some of our families. In an effort to meet this need, the Children's Memorial Scholarship Fund was established. Each year the Center awards scholarships to families who cannot afford the cost of full tuition and who are ineligible for state-funded subsidies. With monies generated by the efforts of all our families and spearheaded by our Fundraising Committee, the Center has been able to award scholarships each year to several families to help defray a small portion of their monthly tuition costs. In this time of economic uncertainty, the scholarship fund has also been used to aid families experiencing short-term financial difficulty due to cutbacks and job loss.
The availability of the money to support these scholarships rests directly on the events that are sponsored throughout the year by the Fundraising Committee and through the efforts of family members who work to support these events. This financial assistance can continue only through the fundraising events, organized and run by families, that are held each year to generate funding for our scholarship pool. Therefore, it is expected that every family will participate in fundraising events, and it is estimated that our needs will be met if each family donates twenty hours per year to our fundraising efforts. Due to the wide variety of skills, talents and schedules that exist among our families, it is obvious that families will choose to participate in many different ways. Some families may choose to coordinate a specific event that will involve all of their hours while others will choose to support each event in a small way. The most important aspect is each family's commitment to the overall fundraising efforts.
Scholarship applications are available in April of each year for the following school year. We encourage all families who feel they may be eligible for assistance to complete an application when they are available.
