The Coleman A. Young Foundation offers a Scholars Program that is unique in:
- Who it serves
- How it serves
- What it accomplishes
Detroit students who receive CAYF scholarships are typically good students who have overcome significant hardship. These students likely would be unable to go to college without the CAYF program.
Staff and volunteers at CAYF are actively committed to the academic and personal well- being of each of its scholars.
This commitment is why CAYF has an incomparable retention rate of more than 90 percent and why CAYF scholars graduate at a rate much higher than all the universities they attend.
CAYF
Coleman A. Young Foundation
Coleman A. Young was the Mayor of Detroit for two decades. He established the Foundation in 1982. The Mayor left office in 1993. He died four years later.
CAYF is a living legacy of the late Mayor's lifetime of work. All the assets he earned were left to the Foundation to provide opportunities for future generations in the city that was his life.
Since 1986, the Foundation has awarded more than three million dollars to more than three hundred students.
All Coleman Young scholars are expected to help the Foundation in whatever way they can and to carry its good will into the community by helping others.
The mission of CAYF is to develop future leaders in Detroit in many different professions who will in turn enable others to become sleaders and benefit the city.
PSRP prepares students for high school by teaching life skills that make academic concentration and success more likely.