>Academy of Lady Tuition Assistance Program
The Academy of Our Lady in Glen Rock is hosting its 10th Annual Ladies’ Night Out fundraiser on Friday, March 30th in Mount Carmel Parish Center, Ridgewood. Ladies’ Night Out is the school’s only tricky tray gift basket fundraiser to raise money for the school’s scholarship program.
The Tuition Assistance Program(TAP) began ten years ago with an initial need of $8,000 dollars; this year it has increased to $40,000. The scholarship program supports the education of children from local towns, including Glen Rock, Hawthorne, Paterson, North Haledon, Fair Lawn and Ridgewood.
The program was designed to assist parish families with the cost of Catholic education and is named in honor of a former pastor of St. Catharine Church who cared deeply for the children of the school. Monsignor Holmes believed all parishioner children whose parents desired a Catholic education should be able to attend the Academy.
The majority of the funds for the TAP are raised though “Ladies’ Night Out”. In addition to those funds, many school families decline the parish subsidy that they would receive and request it be applied to Tuition Assistance Program for a needier family.
In order to qualify for the Tuition Assistance Program, families must be parishioners of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Ridgewood or St. Catharine’s Church in Glen Rock. They fill out an SSS application (School and Student Services sponsored by National Association of Independent Schools) by June 1 for the following school year. School and Student Services notifies the school of the applicant’s eligibility. The Academy uses an outside company to keep financial information confidential and objective. The amount of financial awards given is determined by the amount of funds collected or donated via Ladies’ Night Out and other sources. We cannot give more than we receive, that is why the success of Ladies’ Night Out ties directly with the success of the Tuition Assistance Program.
Ladies’ Night Out is a favorite among school mothers, grandmothers, their neighbors and friends. Traditional donations have included gift certificates, merchandise, services and money. Over 200 Bergen County ladies attend this event.
If you would like to make a monetary contribution, you have the option to be an advertiser in our program. Program advertisements are sold by full or half pages. A full page ad is $250 and a half page ad is $125.
Every sponsor is listed in our event program. We create a gift bag for each attendee and are happy to include your samples, coupons or brochures. (Please allow for 220 gift bags.)
Your tax-deductible donation in support of this event goes to the Monsignor Holmes Tuition Assistance Program, which is a yearly commitment that the Academy makes to keep our school accessible, affordable and available to all families.
If you are interested in donating to this event, please contact Vanessa Hamilton [email protected], or Joan OKeefe [email protected] .
