Your Year-End Support Matters – For Faith and Thousands More

As you consider your 2024 year-end giving, we invite you to make a donation to the Aim Higher Foundation to help the thousands of families who are seeking to enroll their children in K-8 Catholic schools, but cannot without financial assistance.

Faith Ramirez’s educational journey has been made possible in part because of her Aim Higher Scholarship. Watch her video here.

At the Aim Higher Foundation, we believe every child deserves access to the many advantages of Catholic schools—character-building instruction, high expectations, faith-filled curriculum, and academic rigor. For students like Faith Ramirez, these advantages can be transformative. View a video of Faith’s story.

In 2022, seeking an environment that could meet her needs, Faith’s parents turned
to Saint Helena Catholic School for her second-grade year. Two grade levels behind in reading and fearful of the classroom, Faith had struggled academically and emotionally at her previous school. “Faith didn’t feel cared for,” recalls Principal Karla Gergen.

“As a Catholic school, we are able to meet the needs of students in ways other options are not,” Ms. Gergen continued. “We have small group intervention and small class sizes. We have relationships with the families, as well as the independence and flexibility to make the decisions that we know are right – for the kids.”

“The Faith who came to Saint Helena in second
grade and the Faith today, two years later,
are two totally different people.”
Mrs. Irene Ramirez, Faith’s mother

After two years at Saint Helena, with the help of an Aim Higher Scholarship to pay for tuition, Faith is thriving.

“If it was not for scholarships, we would not be able to afford Saint Helena Catholic School,”acknowledges Faith’s mother. This stark financial reality was underscored when Faith’s father fell critically ill this past June, and the family faced a future of one income and looming medical bills. “The last thing Faith’s parents need to worry about right now as they are dealing with this health crisis is her education,” remarks Ms. Gergen. “Because of the Aim Higher Foundation, they don’t have to.”

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A gift to provide tuition-assistance scholarships ensures even more children—more students like Faith—can attend and experience the benefits of a Catholic school. The Aim Higher Foundation is the only source of need-based scholarships at scale throughout the entire 12-county Twin Cities metro area. We support students at all 80 Catholic schools serving grades K-8 in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

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