News
March 31, 2005
Boston – March 31, 2005 Hanify & King, P.C., a Boston-based law firm, announced today it has donated 49 computers to the Inner-City Scholarship Fund (ICSF), a division of Boston’s Catholic Schools Foundation, Inc. Hanify & King Attorney Daniel Dwyer facilitated the donation through his position as board member for the Catholic Schools Foundation. The donated computers will directly benefit the “Catholic Schools–Computers and Networks” (CS-CAN) project. The CS-CAN project’s goal is to install networked computers in each of the 177 schools throughout the Archdiocese of Boston.
"Donations like Hanify & King's really help local Boston Catholic schools that currently lack the financial resources to address their technological needs,” said Sean Dunlavy, Executive Director of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. “We thank them for their generosity. Such contributions enhance these schools’ technological programming and enable students to prepare for the significant role technology will play in their lives.”
The CS-CAN project helps low-income families and children that do not have computers at home or technological resources at school. As a result, these underprivileged students are at a disadvantage in pursuing higher education and entering the job market. To date, CS-CAN has received more than $8 million in donations. These gifts come from public and private sources including a $4 million E-rate grant from the federal government and substantial endowment/operating grants from several foundations such as the Hearst Foundation, the Charles Hayden Foundation and Ronald McDonald House Charities.
“Local inner-city students desperately need so-called “old” computers and technology that many businesses are throwing away” said Attorney Daniel Dwyer of Hanify & King, board member of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. “With these computers, teachers can provide inner-city students with the same type of technology that their more affluent peers enjoy.”
CS-CAN is encouraging companies and individuals to join the "Adopt-a-School" Program. Its goal is to match a sponsor to a school for the purpose of providing the needed resources and labor to update its computer technology. Companies are also asked to make smaller donations, often consisting of used computers that are in the process of being replaced within the company. Schools use the technology to supplement course materials, invigorate interest, complement teaching techniques and encourage students to learn in their own way, inside and outside the classroom.
About Hanify & King, PC
Since 1980, Hanify & King has been delivering effective, practical solutions to the legal needs of businesses and individuals. Hanify and King, based in Boston, has more than 30 attorneys who work with clients as counselors, providing advice, guidance, and legal expertise. The firm’s principal areas of practice are litigation, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, business and real estate, employment, alternative dispute resolution and life sciences.
About the Inner-City Scholarship Fund
The Inner-City Scholarship Fund (ICSF), of the Catholic Schools Foundation, Inc., grants scholarship assistance annually to needy inner-city students at primary or secondary parochial schools in the Archdiocese of Boston. Since its inception in 1991, nearly 45,000 students have benefited from over $35 million raised by the ICSF for financial aid and other programs. As a result of its 13th campaign, more than $4.9 million will be distributed to provide partial scholarships to approximately 5,000 students during the next school year.
About CS-CAN
During spring 2001, a group of Massachusetts executives formed a committee to address the technological needs of all 176 schools in the Archdiocese of Boston. This committee was later named the Catholic Schools - Computers and Networks Program (CS-CAN). CS-CAN provides equipment that allows students and teachers to access libraries and documents online, conduct classes over the Internet and link schools to programs throughout the world. For more information call (617) 778-5981 x202 or email CS-CAN@csfboston.org.
