Catholic Diocesan Futures in Education dinner raises $2.3 million, surpasses 2014 record
Scholarships Enable Needy Students To Attend Catholic Schools
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn’s Futures in Education Dinner, held Oct. 16 at the Waldorf Astoria New York in Manhattan, set a new record in raising scholarship funds for impoverished children.
This year’s dinner, benefiting the diocese’s Futures in Education scholarship fund, raised $2.3 million, surpassing the record $2.2 million it raised last year. Scholarships will be given to the deserving students of low-income families of Brooklyn and Queens to attend Catholic elementary schools and academies.
“When you save one soul, you save the whole world. This is the same, we are working one child at a time. Thanks to God we are able to help nearly 6,000 deserving students with scholarships to stay in our schools,” said the Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio, bishop of Brooklyn, during the event.