Dear School of St. Mary Families,
We hope the current school year has been full of learning and fun experiences for both you and your families. It is hard to believe the year is over halfway done and we are almost to Spring Break already!
We at the Parents' Association wanted to provide you with an update on the 2018-2019 Annual Fund Fundraising campaign. While the year started off well with high corporate sponsorship contributions and our strongest Giving Tuesday campaign ever,
we are still unfortunately very far from our necessary fundraising goal of $330,000, with $107,000 raised year-to-date.
As many of you know, the Annual Fund goes to directly support the operations of the school, financial aid for our students and bonuses to support the amazing teachers that work so hard to shape our children day in and day out.
We are writing to ask for your help.
Every dollar counts and we are hoping to garner participation from 100% of our school families. Every donation that goes towards the Annual Fund directly impacts our students and teachers. There are opportunities coming up to help us reach that goal, but we will need the help of
ALL of our School of St. Mary community and friends.
The Hats off to St. Marys party is on Saturday, March 9 and proceeds from the silent auction will go directly to supporting the Annual Fund. The silent auction items are now posted and can be viewed
here. Additionally, we have our great
GiveCentral platform that allows for online giving and provides a real-time status of the Annual Fund.
We know that in the School of St. Mary community anything is possible if we work together. There will also be more fun events in the future so please keep your eyes peeled for announcements for the rest of this school year. Finally, we invite you to join us at our next Parents' Association Meeting Wednesday, May 8th where we will outline the events for next school year and begin planning all the fun fundraising events for the future. If you have any questions about donating to the Annual Fund please reach out to Marketing and Development Director, Julia Donohoe at jdonohoe@churchofstmary.org.
We look forward to reaching this goal together and thank you for your continued support of our great school!
Sincerely,
Julia Donohoe, Development Director
School of St. Mary Parents' Association
day our School of St. Mary Seventh and Eighth-grade students traveled to St. Patrick's Church to experience the special exhibit, The Vatican International Exhibit of the Eucharistic Miracles of the World. This field trip served as an extension of our students' religion classes, and had on display well documented and Church verified miracles. 
