Opportunities for Giving

Each and every prayer offered for students, faculty, staff, and administration, as well as your participation at the school or in any special event, is a great gift to EDW.

Annual Fund

Donations are made in the form of cash and matching gifts to be used to purchase needed educational equipment and supplies. These gifts assure that EDW stays on the cutting edge of education today.

Gifts to Specific Programs

Donations to specific curricular or co-curricular areas, programs, or other designations provide a more direct method of giving in the area of greatest interest to the donor. Your gift opportunities include cash and specific gifts to departments or programs.

A gift to the EDW Media Center is made in the form of a donation in honor of or in memory of a relative or friend. Gifts may also be given in honor of a significant event. A book is purchased with the donation, and a bookplate is placed in the book as a permanent acknowledgement of this gift. All are remembered at a special Mass in November.

Memorial Gift

Gifts to the EDW Endowment Fund or the EDW Annual Fund can be given in memory of a friend or loved one. Gifts may also be given in honor of an anniversary, birthday, graduation, or other significant event.

Endowment Fund

Donations are on deposit with the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux and earn interest each year. The interest income from these named endowment funds is used to subsidize the operating budget each year and to provide financial aid to families who could not otherwise afford to give their children a quality Catholic education. These dedicated, perpetual gifts help greatly assure the continued excellence and existence of EDW and its affordability for generations of young people to come.

Mount Carmel / Sacred Heart Educators Fund

The interest from this perpetual gift will eventually allow us to offer competitive salaries, and at the same time, attract the next generation of educators who will keep alive the teaching traditions of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart and the Sisters of Mount Carmel.

Guardian Angel Student Aid Fund

Donations for tuition assistance will be placed in our Endowment Fund, and funds derived from the interest will be used to help families in need of tuition assistance.

Planned Giving

Planned gifts can benefit EDW while helping you to save taxes, increase your income, and pass more onto your heirs. Planned gifts are contributions by a donor through his or her estate. A statement in the donor’s will or trust can direct the personal representative to give to EDW. Gifts include appreciated securities, real estate, business interests, life insurance, personal property, and retirement plans.

Click here to visit the Planned Giving Page.

Contact

The Advancement Office

555 Cardinal Drive

Thibodaux, LA 70301

(985) 449-1859