The AskPhilosophers Fund disburses donations to educational charities, especially those that make education available to the underprivileged. [To date, $38,000 have been donated.]
Most recent recipients:
- The Churchill School and Center was founded in 1972 as an elementary school for children with learning disabilities. The Churchill School is a K-12 school of approximately 400 students that educates children with learning disabilities in a full day program, giving these students full access to a general education curriculum. Our students acquire the essential academic and social skills expected of all elementary, middle and high school students in New York State. We teach our students to learn how to learn, to find strategies that fit their learning styles and to set realistic personal, social and academic goals. The Churchill Center offers educational programs and professional development in the field of learning disabilities to students, parents, teachers and related service providers. ($3,000)
- The sole mission of the ChairScholars Foundation is to provide physically disabled, impoverished youngsters a postsecondary education. We administer two scholarship programs for this purpose; the National Program and the Florida Program. The National Program is available to high school seniors and college freshmen from Maine to Hawaii - and everywhere in between. This scholarship provides up to $20,000, distributed over four years, for tuition at the students' college of choice. The Florida Program is available to students attending public schools in the Florida counties of Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, and Sarasota. These scholarships provide either full tuition for a bachelor's degree through the Florida university system or tuition assistance for vocational training. ($3,000)
