The De La Salle Christian Brothers regret to announce that because of the continuing depressed economic environment in 2010, Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), the FSC Foundation’s primary benefactor, was not able to provide funding for the 2011 grant cycle. CBIS plans to resume its support as soon as possible. We will post updates on the 2012 grant cycle in early 2012. Thank you for your understanding.

The FSC Foundation (A title taken from the three first letters of Fratres Scholarum Christianarum - Brothers of the Christian School) was established by seven provinces of the De La Salle Christian Brothers in the United States together with Manhattan College (N.Y.). Resources of the foundation initially and presently are provided by the Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), a financial advisory company with offices in Oakbrook, Illinois and New York. The Christian Brothers founders of CBIS determined from the very beginning of the company that it would set aside a significant portion of any of its profits to be used to support and advance educational services for the poor, especially victims of systemic injustice.

This is the principal goal of the foundation; it represents yet another effort to continue and expand the three-hundred-year old Lasallian tradition of serving the poor through education. In this way, the caring vision of St. John Baptist De La Salle will be extended even into a fourth century.

The FSC Foundation invites proposals to initiate and/or support educational projects which look to serve the poor, the handicapped, and others victimized by society. It hopes that ultimately such projects will become self-reliant and their participants will be enabled to help themselves.

Although the foundation has rather modest resources, it hopes to be able to grow in the future and thus augment the number of projects and persons it can assist.