De La Salle Giving Week Brings Joy to the Community

For the past four years, De La Salle has celebrated De La Salle Giving Day; a day dedicated to celebrating our school and supporting the needs of our students. It has been a day for our De La Salle community to rally together and help bridge the gap of more than $2,800 per student between tuition and what a De La Salle education actually costs.

At the heart of our school is our mission to provide a quality education to underserved students. One in three students at De La Salle receives needs-based tuition assistance. Yet, increases in tuition have resulted in a greater need for tuition assistance. This year alone, we provided over $4 million to De La Salle families. Similarly, increased investments in resources for our faculty, and the ever-growing co-curricular programming for our students are also top funding priorities so that we can keep innovating and educating our future leaders.

This is why, this past fall, De La Salle grew Giving Day to GivingWeek. It allowed us to share all the wonderful ways that community support greatly impacts our students. Each day during De La Salle Giving Week, we focused on the JOY on campus – the joy of being a Student, the joy of Guiding as a faculty member, the joy in participating in Athletics, the joy of receiving tuition assistance. And our community responded in an incredible way.

Needless to say, this puts us in a great position of strength. However, we must not get complacent and lose sight of the fact that the need is still very great. Moving forward, we want to continue to make the gift of a Lasallian Catholic education available to students. Contact Vice President for Advancement, Mark Chiarucci at (925) 288-8106 or chiaruccim@dlshs.org to learn more about how your gifts can make a tremendous impact on our school and students.

Thank you to our community who make investing in the school and our young men a philanthropic priority throughout the year.

Did you miss our communications during De La Salle Giving Week? Check out dlshs.org/givingweek for all the updates and links to videos and be sure to update your contact information with us by emailing chiaruccim@dlshs.org so you don’t miss our effort in the fall!