Welcome to our California Scottish Rite Foundation’s website, another step forward in improving communications between our Foundation and members or friends interested in the many services that we provide to families in California communities.
The California Scottish Rite Foundation has for years been a leader in offering treatment to children who suffer from the language disorders of aphasia and dyslexia. In the fourteen Centers supported by the Foundation throughout the State, we serve approximately 650 children each month, with over 40,000 hours a year of therapy services and professional evaluation. The annual cost to our Foundation for these program services today is over $3,200,000.00, and there is no cost to the families being served. Since 1958, the total Foundation support for our Center services exceeds $43,000,000.00.
Another major service of our Foundation is an
exciting Student Aid Program of scholarship awards
directed toward assisting our undergraduate and
graduate students in California. These awards are
given annually, with many of them being
continuing awards until the student graduates.
Many hundreds of students have been helped with
this Foundation program which has awarded over
$4,000,000.00 since its inception.
These philanthropies, together with our Americanism Program, have been made possible by the faithful donations and bequests from all our members and friends throughout the Orient of California, and the future of our outstanding charity depends entirely upon that continued support.
It is important to look at the history of our Foundation’s achievements, but it is more important to plan ahead. Yes, we can and should listen to the past, but we must NOW speak to the future.
Cordially and Fraternally,
William F. Stovall
President and Chairman of the Board
