2019-20 Annual Fund Drive

The 2019-20 Annual Fund Drive has begun!

In my July 9th blog entitled St. Ann Alumni Matching Challenge (https://didieraur.blogspot.com/2019/07/st-ann-alumni-matching-challenge.html), I wrote about our annual fund drive goal for this year being $130,000. I called this our BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), and this is definitely one BHAG.

Just a reminder, a BHAG is clear and compelling, serves as unifying focal point for effort. It has a clear finish line, so the organization can know when it has achieved the goal.

I don't know this for a fact, but I bet St. Ann has never set an annual fund goal anywhere near this amount. This amount even eclipses last year's total giving of just over $120,000. $67,000 of that total was through in-kind giving, which doesn't count towards the annual drive. Annual giving funds are unrestricted funds that help pay the school's annual operating cost. The more financial gifts we receive, the less we charge for tuition.

In my last blog, The Fall Fest and the School (https://didieraur.blogspot.com/2019/10/fall-fest-and-school.html), I explained the revenue from the Fall Fest is the biggest fundraising event for the school. This year, we need the annual fund drive to surpass the Fall Fest revenue by 2 1/2 times.

If we accomplish this BHAG of raising $130,000 in our annual fund drive, we will be able to meet another BHAG of going three years in a row without a tuition increase.

What is so important about the annual fund drive? Giving to the annual fund drive goes to assist every student in our school by keeping tuition as low as possible. If we want to stay true to our Catholic mission of providing education to all, we need to be affordable to all and not just the families who can financially afford a Catholic education.

My pledge is we will continue to do our best to make St. Ann the best school possible while remaining true to our school's mission statement: Our mission is to provide a Catholic education through faith, service and love.

We started mailing out the fund drive brochures and envelopes this past week. We ask that you take some time to read the brochure. We also hope and pray you will consider St. Ann Catholic School as part of your annual giving plan. Help St. Ann reach our BHAG.

$130,000 is one BHAG. For St. Ann and our students, please help us achieve this goal.

God bless you,
Didier Aur, Principal
St. Ann Catholic School

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