BC High gets record $12 million from alumnus - Brockton, MA - The Enterprise

BC High gets record $12 million from alumnus - Brockton, MA - The Enterprise: BOSTON —

Boston College High School is getting the sort of gift that schools dream of – $12 million from Class of 1952 alumnus Patrick Cadigan.

It’s the largest single donation in the Roman Catholic college-prep school’s history, as well as the largest ever for a New England Catholic secondary school.

Catholic schools need to use a business approach | Courier-Post | courierpostonline.com

Catholic schools need to use a business approach | Courier-Post | courierpostonline.com: Implements mission-based fundraising, including annual appeals and major gift programs. The “candy bar culture” is replaced by a “culture of philanthropy.”

Manages its own finances separate from the parish.

Catholic San Francisco

Catholic San Francisco: "Philanthropy is playing a growing role in financing Catholic K-12 schools as donors step up in a harsh economic environment to preserve the Catholic education model for a new generation of children."

Saving Catholic schools - baltimoresun.com

Saving Catholic schools - baltimoresun.com: "Two things should be done. The first is symbolic. We need the state's top officials to step forward. Ideally, Gov. Martin O'Malley, himself a product of Catholic education, flanked by the state superintendent of schools, the Baltimore schools CEO and others, should make clear that Maryland supports all great schools, and that the closure of any of these - Catholic or otherwise - is a loss for the state.

This would not represent narrow state support for religious schools; on the contrary, it would demonstrate our leaders' agnosticism about who operates a school. It would show that they equally support all excellent schools - traditional public, charter public, secular private and faith-based - especially when they help our most at-risk children.

The second change is legislative."