The Laflin Fund

The Laflin Fund extends the opportunity of a Caedmon education to racially diverse families with limited resources.

One goal of The Caedmon School's mission is that our children should experience their own individual worth, as well as the unique value of others, as part of a community that is, spiritually, intellectually, economically, culturally, and racially diverse.  In this way, we believe children will naturally come to appreciate the common threads that draw us all together.

With no endowment for financial aid as yet, Caedmon is tuition-driven and therefore often limited in the amount of financial assistance it can provide. We rely on your generosity to maintain our racial and economic diversity, and to avoid the culture of exclusivity that characterizes many independent schools.

In the fall of 1994, Caedmon approached interested families for help in establishing a fund to support diversity at the school. One family generously seeded the effort with a gift of $10,000 and The Laflin Fund was born. Since 1996, we have received three $5,000 grant from The Barnard School Foundation, whose mission is to provide financial assistance to racially diverse families in New York City independent schools.

With this fund, we offer you an opportunity to give to Caedmon in a particularly meaningful way, helping to maintain and improve our richly diverse population.