Baseball Unites

NY & LA

Impact

- John Cardinal O'Connor School
  
  Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New York seek to empower students with learning differences to flourish in a Christ-centered, academically excellent, and welcoming environment where they are confident to reach their full potential and become lifelong learners. To achieve that objective, the John Cardinal O’Connor School (JCOS) was established to provide an affordable, language-based academic curriculum for children in grades 2-8 with learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, or other health impairments to children with learning differences.
  The school empowers children to thrive academically, spiritually, emotionally, and socially in our supportive school community through:
  fostering the inclusion of students with disabilities in our schools to create a more diverse group and expose all students to a wider variety of personalities, interests, and abilities
  assisting administrators and teachers to partner with parents of students with disabilities
  enabling administrators and teachers who offer support and understanding that allow students with disabilities to achieve high standards
  advocating for mandated services from providers of special education
  promoting collaboration between the general education teacher and the providers of special education
  providing guidance to the schools for professional development to maximize the potential of students with disabilities
  developing models for the identification of students with disabilities and monitoring the effectiveness of the programs/ interventions
  creating models for delivery of services for students with disabilities in Catholic schools
  With increased support, the Archdiocese of New York and JCOS will be able to give more schools the necessary tools to provide special needs students a space to grow and develop, not only as students, but as people.
- Catholic Education Foundation
  
  Since 1851, Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have provided faith-based education where students receive tools for success in college and in their future careers focused on a commitment to service to their local and global communities. LA Catholic Schools boast innovative programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), leadership development for students and principals, dual-language immersion (Spanish and Mandarin) and robotics among others. With more than 245 schools in three counties, we're proud to be the largest Catholic school system in the United States serving over 68,000 students in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
  
  Since its inception in 1987, the Catholic Education Foundation has provided more than 230,000 tuition awards in excess of $264,000,000. The mission of CEF is to provide tuition assistance to the most financially deserving students attending Catholic elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese. This year, CEF granted more than 15,000 tuition awards in excess of $22,000,000 to more than 13,000 students attending over 200 schools throughout the Archdiocese. In addition, 4,441 of those awards have been issued through the New Enrollment Initiative (NEI), which is funded by an anonymous donor. NEI has made a profound impact by making a Catholic education possible for more students.