Fund Information
The Annual Fund
This fund supports the “nuts and bolts” of Caedmon by helping the school to meet its annual operating expenses. Caedmon could not function without The Annual Fund, since it makes up the difference between tuition revenue and the actual cost of educating your children. Specifically, Annual Giving supports:
- Faculty Salaries and Benefits
- Program Enhancements
- Technology and Facility Upgrades
- Guest Speakers and Community Events
- Financial Aid
The Laflin Fund
The Laflin Fund extends the opportunity of a Caedmon education to children of color from families with limited resources.
One goal of The Caedmon School’s mission is that our children should experience their own individual worth and 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.
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. With this fund, we offer you an opportunity to give to Caedmon in a particularly meaningful way, helping to maintain and improve its richly diverse population.
The Marilyn Ann McTague Fund for Faculty Development
The Marilyn Ann McTague Fund for Faculty Development provides financial support for our teachers to further their professional growth in ways that will enhance their expertise in the classroom and reinforce their commitment to Caedmon. The fund enables them to complete their graduate studies, travel, or attend conferences dealing with issues of use in their careers and classrooms.
Marilyn Ann McTague plunged into her teaching career at The Caedmon School in 1971 with the same good humor, dedication, and intelligence that characterized her work at Caedmon for the next thirty-three years. Over the years, Miss McTague (now retired) made an indelible impression, both on her young charges and on the culture of the school. Parents remember her complete devotion to their children, and remain forever indebted to her for her wise counsel.
In 1995, Caedmon created The Marilyn Ann McTague Fund for Faculty Development to recognize Miss McTague’s many years of service, and to honor and support Caedmon’s greatest resource: our teachers.
The Elizabeth Crawford Connelly Scholarship
The Elizabeth Crawford Connelly Scholarship is offered each year to one or more Caedmon families who otherwise would not be able to enroll or remain at Caedmon. It was created in 2002 in memory of Elizabeth Crawford Connelly, a founding parent of Caedmon and a member of the Board of Trustees for nearly three decades.
Elizabeth Connelly’s work at Caedmon reflected a lifetime of social concern and public activism. She spent more than a decade as an attorney at Manhattan Legal Services where she tended to the needs of her indigent clients with creative, lawyerly skill and a witty disrespect for the wishes of the powerful.
Resources donated to this scholarship do not accumulate, but are dispersed in their entirety each year, in keeping with the spirit of Mrs. Connelly herself, who throughout her life was an advocate of those in immediate need.
The Josephine Hartog Fund for Montessori Teacher Training
The Josphine Hartog Fund enables Caedmon teachers to undertake or complete their Montessori teacher training, or to otherwise enhance their understanding of the Montessori philosophy.
The fund was created in 2007 in memory of Mrs. Josephine Hartog, who served from 1969 to 1974 as Caedmon’s third Head of School. Mrs. Hartog was a passionate advocate of Montessori education throughout her career, and was instrumental in developing the unique application of the Montessori philosophy that is evident at Caedmon today.
Your support of this fund will help to assure that our teachers continue to apply Caedmon’s Modified Montessori approach with a thorough historical, methodological, and philosophical understanding of the work of Maria Montessori, as it continues to evolve at Caedmon and throughout the world.
