To all the supporters of Catholic education in the Diocese of Dallas, we say Thank You! The Bishop’s Invitational was a great success, raising more than $585,000 for tuition scholarships for our existing PK-8th families. These funds are essential in our efforts to provide resources to families with financial need - and to retain students in our schools.

We also want to thank everyone who donated to HALO during North Texas Giving Day and to those helping raise the funds for our new family recruiting pilot, HALO 139. Your generosity has put us within just $1,235 of reaching the $100,000 challenge issued by The Mike & Mary Terry Family Foundation. Please consider helping us reach this important milestone by donating here today! And, please forward this newsletter to your friends and family who value Catholic education. 

HALO 139

The HALO 139 pilot reached the goal of enrolling 139 new families to our five pilot schools, in addition to their normal enrollment growth, with emphasis on adding students in the younger grades, as you can see by the chart below.

When these new families stay beyond the incentive period, the return on donor investment will be 10:1 in many cases. And, that is just the financial return. We received excellent data from the marketing campaigns. This information will be invaluable for all future marketing projects for not only the pilot schools, but all Diocesan schools.

The incredible response to this pilot helped to accelerate enrollment across the entire Catholic school system. System-wide there was an enrollment increase of 36% with 1/3 of that coming from the new HALO 139 students. This contrasts with most all other Catholic school systems across the nation, who are closing and consolidating schools at an alarming rate.

HALO aims to keep the momentum going here in the Diocese of Dallas. While we will continue to serve our families with needs-based tuition assistance, we are already gearing up for the next round of stimulus marketing for four of the pilot schools, and possibly adding more – for the 2022-2023 school year.

Let’s work together to keep our Catholic schools strong, sustained and growing! Visit our website at www.haloinitiative.org to learn more.