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DePaul Cristo Rey High School
Who We Are: DePaul Cristo Rey is a Catholic, college-preparatory high school with a mission to educate young people who have the potential but limited financial means to go to college. This is accomplished through a dynamic academic program partnered with an innovative Corporate Work Study Program, not available at any other local high school. Students work in corporate job placements earning part of their own education costs and all students receive financial aid. Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, DPCR is one of 37 high schools in the nationwide Cristo Rey Network® which serves 13,000 young people.
What We Do: DePaul Cristo Rey provides education, professional work experience and intensive support to help young people with great potential complete high school, enroll in and successfully complete college. DPCR is the only local high school with a Corporate Work Study Program through which students work at local companies. It’s also the only local high school with a full-fledged Graduate Success Program providing human and financial resources to support alumni to college completion. Through the Graduate Success Fund, alumni can apply for micro-grants to fill college financial shortfalls such as tuition gaps, books, bus cards, and meal plans.
Why We’re Important: Many young people in our community lack access to quality schools and the opportunity to pursue higher education, but they don’t lack dreams, drive or motivation. Many businesses and organizations in our community seek better ways to improve their pipeline of future talent and demonstrate their commitment to workforce diversity and community engagement. DePaul Cristo Rey is their common thread offering students quality, faith-based education and exposure to the professional world, and a Corporate Work Study Program that benefits both students and business partners.
How We Serve the Community: DePaul Cristo Rey students are this region’s future college graduates, professionals, parents, community leaders, and changemakers. At DPCR, they are prepared, encouraged and supported to embrace their potential, find their voices, enroll in and graduate from college; many of them are the first in their families to go to college. Nationally and locally low-income and minority students have significantly lower college graduation rates than their middle and high-income peers. However, Cristo Rey students are two times more likely to complete a bachelor’s degree by age 24, compared to the total U.S. low-income population.
How You Can Help:
• Make A Gift – Every DPCR student receives tuition assistance.
Your gift of cash or stock makes a life-changing education possible. • Provide A Corporate Work Study Job – Students work to fund part of their own education. Your connections can introduce our innovative work-study model to new companies and these companies to our amazing students. • Support Our Events – Rey of Light Dinner Auction, DPCR
Golf Classic and Champions of Change need sponsors, raffle and auction prizes, and volunteers. • Support Our Graduate Success Fund – Gifts will help us endow this fund as a permanent resource supporting our alumni to college completion. Our goal is $6 million.
DePaul Cristo Rey High School 1133 Clifton Hills Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45220 513-861-0600 www.depaulcristorey.org Facebook = DePaul-Cristo-Rey-High-School-Cincinnati Instagram = depaulcristorey LinkedIn = DePaul Cristo Rey High School Twitter = @DePaulCristoRey
President/CEO: Siobhan Taylor siobhan.taylor@dpcr.net
Vice President of Advancement: Sparkle Worley sparkle.worley@dpcr.net
Board Chair: Patricia Robertson
Board Members: Barbara K. Bennie, John Browner, David J. Cassady, Manuel Chavez, S. Barbara Davis, SC, Chuma Ekwueme, David Fikse, S. Lois Jean Goettke, SC, Richard (Dick) Haglage, Cindy Howell, Gail Kist-Kline, S. Georgia Kitt, SC, Bart Kohler, Steven McDevitt, Mona Morrow, Dan Neyer, Cathy Ramstetter, PhD, Nick Reilly, James B. “Rick” Reynolds, Michael Schuster, Tim Stautberg, Siobhan Taylor, ex officio, Andre Williams, S. Cj Willie, SC
