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Support the next generation of creative leaders who help shape a brighter future for our world.
Thanks to the generosity of our community, Carondelet provides 41% of students with tuition assistance support.Our priority is to make sure every family, regardless of financial circumstances, has access to quality educationand that aspiring young women develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to advance transformative change.
In these times of economic uncertainty, need is greater than ever for many students.
Creating an endowment fund provides critical support for students who otherwise could not attend Carondelet. Your gift makes a direct impact, enriching students’ learning experiences and inspiring them to make powerful contributions to society.
Named Annual Tuition Assistance Funds
Annual tuition assistance funds provide immediate support to students with the most pressing needs in a given year. These funds, spent down each year, are essential for continuing and prospective students who urgently need financial aid in order to enroll and thrive at Carondelet.
Gifts of $5,000+ are eligible to be named and awarded in full for the academic year.
The fund is viable for as long as annual contributions are made (multi-year pledges are encouraged) and need not be gifted consecutively to remain active.
The tuition assistance fund can be named in honor of an individual, family, organization, or even a faculty member, pending approval by school leadership.
Unrestricted tuition assistance gifts enable Carondelet to provide aid to as many deserving students as possible.
Awarding is administered by Carondelet based on financial and merit qualifications.
Donors are recognized annually on campus and inMany the Gifts.
Named Endowed Tuition Assistance Funds
Endowed funds create a legacy that will exist in perpetuity to help generations of talented students.Endowed tuition assistance funds may be created through a variety of giving options, either during your lifetime or at the time of your passing. During your lifetime, you may fund an endowment with cash, securities, real estate, or a life-income gift. You may also create an endowed tuition assistance fund through a will/living trust bequest or via a retirement plan/insurance policy beneficiary designation.
A gift of at least $50,000 establishes a named tuition assistance fund that is invested in its entirety and grants awards from interest earned.Donors have five years to reach the minimum fund balance of $50,000 to begin awarding aid.
The fund can be named in honor of an individual, family, organization, or even a faculty member, pending approval by school leadership.
Donors are recognized on campus and inMany the Gifts, and receive an annual endowment report on fund performance and aid awarding, detailing the impact of their gifts.
Carondelet is a wellspring of talent and personal excellence in the East Bay Area. Tuition assistance enables us to bring the brightest students from around the region to learn, serve, and contribute to the benefit of our community and world.
Financial aid support has a demonstrated impact on student retention, academic achievement, and college and career success. Carondelet graduates are trained to cultivate intellectual curiosity, risk-taking, collaboration, innovation, compassion, and integrity, and they are highly sought after by colleges and into their professional experience.
Vituity Cares is a charitable foundation focused on improving the health of underserved communities in the United States. Their Carondelet tuition assistance fund provides $4,000 per year to students in who need who demonstrate an interest in the healthcare professions.Dr. Theo Koury P’18, Vice President of Vituity Cares Foundation, believes that partnership with Carondelet to identify passion and talent—and seed it with financial support—is a key piece to addressing generational and comprehensive change in the healthcare space.
Need-based tuition assistance endowed funds
Created in the early 1990s and funded by donations from cherished alumnae. Our alumnae know first-hand the value of a Carondelet education and want to pay it forward and share that experience.
Established to support hardworking students who make the uniquely challenging journey to Carondelet High School preferably from the Pittsburg/Antioch areas and beyond. These students often spend many hours commuting to and from Carondelet, which can create academic challenges when working with teachers or orchestrating group projects.
Recently established in Yvette’s memory by her parents to honor her as a young lady who loved Carondelet, and persevered through health challenges to get the most out of each day here. Yvette was a cheerful optimist who made the world a better place.
Blessed with much success in life, the Garaventas taught their family and community the true meaning of stewardship. They believed that when you had plenty, you shared what you could with others. Because of their love for Carondelet and the value of Catholic education, the family established this scholarship in their memory.
Established by her parents in honor of Tricia, who was active in community service and dedicated to others.It is awarded to a student whose orientation to school and community service best exemplifies the spirit Tricia so beautifully modeled as a student at Carondelet.
Created by the Carondelet Board of Trustees in 2012 to honor and recognize the former Principal and President as she retired from over three decades of leadership at Carondelet. This scholarship is a wonderful way to continue to honor Sister Kathy’s legacy of education of the mind, body, and spirit.
Newly endowed and created by Patricia Niven in honor of her daughter, Caitlin Caulfield ’13. They aspire to give a student who really wants to attend Carondelet the opportunity to benefit from the great education and foundation Caitlin experienced when she was a student here.
Created to honor the family’s Mexican-American heritage. Fernando and Margaret Olivas’s daughters graduated from Carondelet High School in 1985 and 1990.
Established in 1982 to honor Gigi’s life of cheerful enthusiasm, cooperation, academic excellence, and keen sense of Christian service.
Established by John and his five daughters—all of whom are Carondelet graduates. After their parents’ deaths, their daughters continue to be major benefactors and supporters of the school. John and Donna helped establish the Carondelet development program and were largely responsible for the first donor appreciation dinner held in the early eighties.
Established in the late 90’s by her parents to honor her memory as a person who loves to smile and give to others, is faith filled, and dedicated to student leadership and school service.
Funded through gifts made by those in our Carondelet family in memory of deceased friends and loved ones. Those honored are remembered monthly at a mass in honor of St. Joseph, the patron of a peaceful death. Their names are inscribed in the Carondelet Memorial Book kept in the President’s Office in the convent.