Senior Gift

List of 8 items.

• Why do we have a senior gift?

  St. Agnes is a non-profit organization that depends on donors to give back to the school for us to keep our tuition low, offer a variety of classes and extracurricular activities for our students, hire and keep the excellent faculty who teach you, to name a few things. Tuition alone does not fully cover the cost of educating an Academy Woman.
  
  

  SAA donors include current parents, past parents, faculty and staff (100% of your teachers make a donation annually to SAA), and many of our 8,500 alumnae. You are only months away from becoming an alumna, and we will depend on you to come back as donors, educators, career day speakers, board members, and members of SAYPO (the St. Agnes Young Professionals Organization), and maybe one day as parents.

• Do I have to make a large gift/pledge?

  No! Every bit helps. If everyone in your class donated $20.23 this year, you would raise almost $4,500 for the scholarship. Participation is key! If everyone participates in some way, it will make a huge impact.

• How do I explain this to my friends?

  If there were no scholarships, one in 10 of your classmates would not be here. Think about the impact your classmates have had on your life. Now take one of those classmates out.
  
  

  Contributing to your class scholarship will bring a deserving student to St. Agnes who otherwise would not be able to come here. YOU have the power to do that – to change the life of a young woman, and the lives of the friends she will make here. Ask your friends to consider giving up one trip to Starbucks between now and graduation and give that money to the scholarship. If everyone in your class gave just $5 this year, you would raise $1,085. 

• My parents made a gift. Does that count for me to get the incentives?

  No. We are encouraging you and your parents to each make separates gift to SAA. The school has prepared you for college and beyond, and we hope you can learn to budget out of your finances to give back to SAA on an annual basis. This is a first step in taking action for yourself and supporting your alma mater because you have made the decision to do so, not your parents.    

• I decided to pledge over five years. When do I have to pay my pledge?

  You pay your first pledge payment at the time of commitment. For the next four years, we will send out pledge reminders twice a year, in December and March, via email and mail to your parent’s home address. You can make your annual payment online at any time. If you give us your credit card to charge annually, it will be charged on May first, every year, for the next four years.

• I think my parents sent in my form. Do I get to participate in the incentives?

  Yes! Ms. Kasavich and Ms. Pinter will keep track all the gifts that come in through the mail and online. If we don’t have you on the list, it may be on its way. We will let you know if we don’t receive it within the week so you can follow up with your parents. 

• I want to make my gift on an incentive day, but I forgot my check/cash/credit card number. Can I participate in the incentive?

  This year incentives will be based on class participation as a whole. The only time it is individual is the weekly drawings. You must make your gift the day before to be included in the drawing. 

• Senior Gift Timeline and Benefits

  Tentative Schedule
  

  • March 1 - Parent letters mailed home
  • March 22 - Class of 2023 Senior Gift Ask – during Community Time
  • VTV Drawings*
    • March 30
    • April 4
    • April 6
    • April 11
    • April 13
    • April 18
    • April 20
    • April 25
    • May 2
    • May 4
  • Incentive Dates will be as quickly after we hit a milestone.
    • 25% - Free Dress Day
    • 50% - Tiff's Treats at Lunch
    • 75% - PJ and Shoe of Choice Day
    • 100% - Coffee Truck comes to SAA

  *Must have made a pledge/gift to be part of the drawing, and the gift must be $5 or more.