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(OSV News) — In what is described as “the largest single investment” in prekindergarten-to-grade-12 Catholic education in history, the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation is donating $150 million to the Chicago-based Big Shoulders Fund to support Catholic schools in the Diocese of Gary, Indiana.
The gift, which will be made over the next 10 years, aims to improve the schools’ quality, accessibility and sustainability, making them the “highest performing network of Catholic schools in the United States” that could create a national model, said William Hanna, the foundation’s executive director.
Bishop Robert J. McClory of Gary called the donation, which was publicly announced June 12, “extraordinary.”
“One could live their whole lives — and certainly their whole episcopacy — and never be able to make an announcement as significant as this,” he told OSV News. “This is a sign of hope and confidence in our Catholic schools, and a time to rejoice and look to the future.”
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The gift, which will be made over the next 10 years, aims to improve the schools’ quality, accessibility and sustainability, making them the “highest performing network of Catholic schools in the United States” that could create a national model, said William Hanna, the foundation’s executive director.
Bishop Robert J. McClory of Gary called the donation, which was publicly announced June 12, “extraordinary.”
“One could live their whole lives — and certainly their whole episcopacy — and never be able to make an announcement as significant as this,” he told OSV News. “This is a sign of hope and confidence in our Catholic schools, and a time to rejoice and look to the future.”
Background of The Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation
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Unprecedented $150M donation aims to boost Northwest Indiana's Catholic schools
In what is described as "the largest single investment" in prekindergarten-to-grade-12 Catholic education in history, the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation is donating $150 million to the Chicago-based Big Shoulders Fund to support Catholic schools in the Diocese of Gary, Indiana.
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