Published: 17 August 2022

CHARLOTTE — The Diocese of Charlotte Foundation manages 92 endowments with a total market value of approximately $16.1 million that generate income to directly aid the diocese’s schools and their students:

• Ad Meliora Endowment Fund: Financial support for facility improvements and beautification initiatives at Christ the King High School.
• American Schlafhorst Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for students at Charlotte Catholic High School.
• Archibong Family Endowment Fund: Provides for the general needs of Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville.
• Asheville Catholic School Foundation Endowment Fund: Financial support to enable the school to retain quality teachers, offer scholarship assistance, provide continuing education for teachers, and enhance the school’s curriculum.
• Joseph and Margaret Baldi Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for children of St. Leo Parish families to attend St. Leo School in Winston-Salem.
• Bishop McGuinness High School Endowment Fund: Financial support for the education of students at this school in Kernersville.
• Joan W. Books Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for children of Immaculate Conception Parish to attend Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Don and Mary Gay Brady Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Our Lady of Grace School in Greensboro.
• Elizabeth Allen Brown Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Asheville Catholic School.
• Molly Cassidy Scholarship Fund: Tuition assistance for Triad area Catholic school students.
• Catholic Charities Asheville Endowment Fund: Provides for the general needs of this ministry in Asheville.
• Catholic Education Endowment Fund: Scholarships for students attending Catholic elementary schools in the diocese.
• Charlotte Catholic High School Alumni Association Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarships for graduating seniors to attend a college of their choice.
• Charlotte Catholic High School Alumni Association Board Discretionary Endowment Fund: Financial assistance, at the board’s discretion, to Charlotte Catholic High School students.
• Charlotte Catholic High School Endowment Fund: Benefits Charlotte Catholic High School.
• James P. and Eunice S. Cherry Scholarship Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students to attend St. Michael School in Gastonia.
• Cornelius Alexander Davis Fund: Tuition assistance for students at St. Leo School in Winston-Salem.
• Digger Dawson Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for students from Immaculate Conception Church attending Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Derhofer Endowment Fund: For drama department productions, capital needs related to the drama department, and tuition assistance for students at Bishop McGuinness High School.
• Deussen Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarships for Catholic high school education in the greater Charlotte area.
• Stephen and Jessica Dey Options Endowment Fund: Benefits the “Options” programs at the diocese’s schools.
• Faucette Endowment Fund: Financial assistance for the educational ministry of the diocese’s schools.
• ‘Forward in Faith, Hope, and Love’ campaign endowment: Tuition assistance
• Gayden and Janell Gauthier Fund: Tuition scholarship assistance for students at Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Mary Gay and Don Brady Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance of faculty children for TRIAD schools.
• George L. Repass Memorial Tuition Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students attending Bishop McGuinness High School.
• O’Brien and William Edwards Gibbs Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Asheville Catholic School.
• Gismondi Family Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for children of St. Mark Church parishioners to attend Christ the King High School in Huntersville.
• Bobbie Grant Memorial Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students attending Bishop McGuinness High School.
• Megan Healy Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for students at St. Patrick School in Charlotte.
• Edith and George Hilbert Endowment Fund for Asheville Catholic School: Financial support for the education of students at Asheville Catholic School.
• Holy Family Catholic Church Scholarship Endowment Fund: Catholic school tuition assistance (K-12) for members of Holy Family Parish.
• Holy Trinity Catholic Middle School Endowment Fund: Supports the general needs of Holy Trinity Middle School.
• Immaculata School Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for students at Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Immaculate Heart of Mary School Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in High Point.
• Roger Kavanagh Tuition Assistance Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at St. Pius X School in Greensboro.
• Leeolou Family Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools families.
• LeFeber Endowment: This fund provides tuition assistance to students at Immaculata Catholic School in Hendersonville.
• LoBianco Family Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at St. Therese of Lisieux Church in Mooresville and St. Mark Church in Huntersville to attend Christ the King High School.
• Manley Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students of families at St. Eugene Church to attend Catholic elementary school.
• Beth Maren Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance to Catholic students at UNC-Charlotte.
• Sister Terry Martin Scholarship Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students matriculating in higher education from Clay and Cherokee counties.
• Catherine McAuley Endowment Fund: Scholarships to Catholic students attending Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools.
• Francis J. McGrail Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance to students of Immaculate Heart of Mary School in High Point.
• Lee McGuiness Endowment: Benefits the Charlotte Catholic High School Alumni Association.
• Sandy McMonagle Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Our Lady of Mercy School in Winston-Salem.
• Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools Education Development Council: Assistance to the nine MACS schools in the Charlotte area.
• Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools (MACS) Special Needs Endowment Fund: For Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools’ students with special needs
• Reverend Enrique A. Mendez, S.D.B. Endowment Fund: Provides for needy alumni from Colegio San Julian, in Guines, Province of Havana, Cuba, and/or their families or persons associated with Salesian Schools.
• Katelyn Mitchell Student Athlete Scholarship Endowment Fund: For the benefit of a student-athlete in sixth, seventh or eighth grade at St. Pius X School in Greensboro.
• Monsignor Lawrence C. Newman Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Our Lady of Mercy School in Winston-Salem.
• Victor Nussbaum Jr. Educational Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at St. Pius X School in Greensboro.
• Chris and Margaret Onulak Endowment Fund: Provides for the general needs of Asheville Catholic School.
• Our Lady of Grace School Endowment Fund: For the general needs of the school.
• Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School Fund: For the general needs of Our Lady of the school.
• Poutre Family Endowment Fund: For the general needs of Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Quinn Family Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Clark G. Ross Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for Catholic high school students from parishes in Mecklenburg, Iredell, Cabarrus and Rowan counties.
• Clark G. Ross St. Therese Church Scholarship Endowment Fund: For the benefit of parishioners at St. Therese Church to provide college scholarships.
• Sacred Heart School Endowment Fund: For the general needs of the school.
• Sheridan-Mangan Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Asheville Catholic School.
• Sisters of Mercy Scholarship Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at St. Michael School in Gastonia.
• Sisters of St. Joseph Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for Bishop McGuinness High School students.
• Victoria Sleeman Endowment Fund: Scholarships for students of Immaculate Conception Church to attend Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Frank Spinks Endowment Fund: For professional development activities for the staff at Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Mary Spinks Endowment Fund: For scholarship assistance to minority students at Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Michael Sullivan Endowment Fund: Scholarships for graduates of Charlotte Catholic High School.
• St. Ann School Endowment Fund: For the general needs of the school.
• St. Gabriel School Endowment Fund: For the general needs of the school.
• St. John the Baptist Church Memorial Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance to graduating high school seniors from this parish in Tryon for attendance at post-secondary schools.
• St. Joseph Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for students at Asheville Catholic School.
• St. Lawrence Council (1695) Student Scholarship Endowment Fund: Financial assistance for the educational needs of council members’ and deceased members’ children.
• St. Leo School Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for St. Leo students.
• St. Mark School Endowment Fund: For the general needs of the school.
  n St. Mary Church Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for children of St. Mary’s parishioners attending Our Lady of Grace and St. Pius X schools in Greensboro and Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville.
• St. Mary’s Church College Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarship assistance for students from St. Mary’s Church in Greensboro who attend Belmont Abbey College.
• St. Matthew School Endowment Fund: For the general needs of the school.
• St. Michael School Endowment Fund: For the general needs of the school.
• St. Pius X School Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at the school.
• St. Therese Church Scholarship Endowment Fund: Support for post-secondary education for the youth of the parish, who have demonstrated a commitment to service within this parish in Mooresville and/or their community.
• Theresa Lasecki Talbert Scholarship Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville.
• Remo and Carolyn Termini Endowment Fund: Scholarships for students attending Asheville Catholic School.
• John Michael Thompson Endowment Fund: For the benefit of Sacred Heart School in Salisbury.
• F. Joseph Treacy Endowment Fund: For scholarship assistance for students in all nine MACS schools.
• Triad Educational Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance to students attending a Catholic elementary or high school in the Triad area.
• Villalon Family Endowment Fund: Financial assistance for students at Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville.
• Sabrina Watt Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at Immaculata School in Hendersonville.
• Sister Paulette Williams Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarships for graduating seniors from Charlotte Catholic High School to attend a college of their choice.
• Woelfel Family Endowment Fund: Financial assistance at Our Lady of Grace School for student educational purposes, such as purchasing textbooks or technology needs.
• Wos-Dejoy Endowment Fund: Tuition assistance for students at St. Pius X School in Greensboro.
• Yates-Murphy Educational Trust Scholarship Endowment Fund: Scholarships for students of Holy Name Church in New Bedford, Mass.
• Sister Emma Yondura Endowment: For the benefit of St. Leo School in Winston-Salem.

Fund a named endowment

Interested in setting up a named endowment or adding to an existing endowment at your parish or Catholic school? Establish an endowment in the Diocese of Charlotte Foundation by leaving a bequest in a will; a beneficiary designation from a retirement plan; a gift of real estate; a gift of life insurance, cash or securities sufficient to set up an endowment; or a life income arrangement, such as a trust or annuity. For details, contact Gina Rhodes at 704-370-3364 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Published: 02 August 2023

• Catch up on back-to-school information from your school, especially any updates to the start of the school day, handbook changes, uniform updates, school supply lists.
• Put bedtime and wake-up time routines back into place at least a week before school starts. 
• Students who are new to changing classes and having a locker often find creating a list helpful for remembering what to bring home at the end of each day.
• Talk about how as a family you will partner with the school this year, using their time, talent and treasure.
• Talk about the return to school in a positive way. Remind students of the names of teachers, after-school caretakers, the principal and other special people in the school building.
• Conduct fittings for kids receiving uniforms passed down from older siblings. Order more as soon as possible or ask your school about its gently used uniform closet. Donate uniforms that no longer fit.
• Make picking out a backpack or lunch box a special event. Take the opportunity to build independent habits as you encourage your child to organize their supplies and make packing lunch a team effort. Students can also participate in the care of their school uniforms, sports uniforms, and band and activity equipment. 
• Reuse school supplies if possible.
• Enjoy every bit of summer left – think pools, parks, cookouts – especially between now and Labor Day.

— Catholic News Herald