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CTODP breakfast thanks corporate donors
By Rebecca Bostic, rbostic@catholicsun.org
May 1, 2008
Carmen Zaldivar wanted a high school experience that would promote moral values and provide a supportive community. She was doubtful she could find that in a public school, but her family did not have the resources to pay tuition at a Catholic school.
That is where the Catholic Tuition Organization of the Diocese of Phoenix stepped in.
Zaldivar is in the midst of her first year at Xavier College Preparatory and is extremely grateful for the education opportunity her scholarship from the tuition organization provided.
“It has given me a chance to get a better education here at Xavier and I’m really glad that they are supporting kids” who want a Catholic education, Zaldivar said April 24 during the 2008 Corporate Tax Credit Appreciation Breakfast at Xavier College Preparatory.
“Being in a Catholic school that strengthens values within an all-girls community is a really great thing,” she added.
Zaldivar is just one of many students who benefited from the Corporate Tax Credit the Arizona State Legislature passed into law two years ago. The breakfast honored the 38 corporate sponsors that have raised more than $4.8 million in the past two years through the Corporate Tax Credit program.
This has allowed 749 students from low-income families to receive need-based scholarships to fund their Catholic education.
“We really wanted to thank the corporate contributors. They have provided so much for the students,” said Margaret Gillespie, president of the tuition organization.
“We are impassioned about making sure that families who want to send their children to Catholic schools have the opportunity to do so,” she said.
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