The Annual Grand Raffle is one of SRLA's biggest fundraisers and we need your help! 

We are looking for volunteers to sell Grand Raffle tickets at St. Rose of Lima Masses during the two weekends leading up to Wish Upon a Star, Friday, May 10, 2024.

Here's what we need:

First, we need volunteers at our Masses THIS upcoming weekend and the following weekend. This is an easy 20-25 minute job - we are asking for 1-2 parent/family volunteers at each Mass to sell our Grand Raffle tickets at a table outside church (weather permitting) or inside the vestibule of the church .

Masses are: Saturday 4/20 and 4/27 at the 5:30pm Mass and Sunday 4/21 and 4/28 at the 7:30am, 9:30am and 11:30am Masses.  Tickets will be sold at the end of Mass. Payments may be made by cash, check or credit/debit card

Please see the dates and Masses in the Signup link below. Just click to sign up!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4BADA92AABFC1-49155930-grand

Second, please don't forget to sell the tickets each family was provided in their child's back pack (will be given to the oldest in each family). We are hoping for 100% family participation this year !! We accept checks or payment may be made here through each family's Blackbaud account Powered by Blackbaud

Questions?

Please feel free to contact Tina Fay directly.

Most sincerely,

Tina Fay

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Dear Parents:

We hope you plan on joining us on Friday, May 10th for our BIGGEST school fundraiser, Wish Upon a Star! The annual Grand Raffle is an exciting part of WISH, and one of our most important (and easiest!) fundraisers. Your child has brought home two booklets of Grand Raffle tickets today. We strongly encourage you to sell tickets to your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers and don’t forget to purchase a few for yourself.

Each ticket will be entered for a chance to win one of three Visa gift cards: Grand Prize $1,500, 2nd Prize $1,000 and 3rd Prize $500. We are striving for 100% participation from our school families and encourage you to sell both ticket booklets. Each ticket is $10, and there are ten tickets per book. Please return all ticket stubs to school by Tuesday, May 7th.

Ticket holders need not be present to win!

You can purchase tickets by credit card through Blackbaud :

https://bngn.blackbaud.school/?id=oqedbqza02n#/home/

Or write a check to SRLA HSA. You must send in your stubs with the name and contact information of the purchaser to be entered into the raffle.

Stubs and checks should be returned to the school office in the envelope provided.

The winning ticket will be drawn at Wish Upon a Star on Friday, May 10th.

If the winner is not present, they will be contacted to pick up their prize at a later date.

Questions?

Please feel free to contact Tina Fay directly.

Good luck in the Grand Raffle! 

Most sincerely,

Tina Fay

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Please help us to obtain increased funding for Nursing Services and Transportation for our students!

Having a nurse at school is a necessity, and we need your help to let our state legislators know that increasing nursing aid for our students is important to their health and welfare, regardless of the school they attend.

In addition, safe transportation is a serious need, and we also ask for your assistance in letting our legislators know that an increase in transportation aid will help families get their children to and from school safely.

Increased funding in these two areas helps make the difference for our families in choosing a Catholic education.

Contacting your state legislators is easy and only takes a few minutes at 

https://www.votervoice.net/NJCC/Campaigns/112988/Respond

ISSUE:         

Given the circumstances of the following issues, we are formulating an Action Alert for two important increases to be included as Budget Resolutions in the final version of the Appropriations Act due to the Governor by June 30. Budget Resolutions are the changes in the Governor’s Budget as submitted by him to the Legislature. They are as follows:

1.    An increase in the per-pupil ceiling for nonpublic school transportation from the current $1,165 to at least $1,233, given the loss of busing caused by the lack of drivers statewide and other issues explained in the enclosed Talking Points. This reflects the CPI increase for the coming year.

2.    An increase from $120 to $160 per pupil for nursing services.OUR POSITION:  The New Jersey Catholic Conference and the New Jersey Catholic school supporters firmly support the requests in this Alert.

ACTION:      Contact your legislators and ask that they sponsor or co-sponsor the Budget Resolutions listed above. Please note that the Democratic members normally are the only ones who will have Budget Resolutions approved, so they would be of particular importance for your contacts. 

·    This Action Alert should be REPEATED between now and the beginning of June because that is when the Budget Resolutions are submitted to be included in the final version of the Appropriations Act to be signed by the Governor.

·    Please include the publicized increase in nonpublic school enrollment as a result of the pandemic to underscore the “asks.” However, many parents are still unable to fulfill their goal of having a nonpublic school education for their children because of the limitation on transportation. Parents need transportation to school for their children, and aid-in-lieu payments are only a lesser alternative. Tell your personal transportation horror stories in detail to the legislators.

·    Indicate the importance of in-person education that nonpublic schools maintained during the pandemic, particularly in underserved communities. 

·    Included in this package is Dr. George Corwell’s testimony before the Assembly Budget Committee and the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee. That testimony contains a valuable attachment. The attachment represents the current count between the number of nonpublic school students transported and those given aid-in-lieu payments listed by county. Many parents need transportation, and not aid-in-lieu, because they are working to pay tuition and are unable to transport their children.

·    Talking Points for both nonpublic school transportation and nursing services are included.

You can also contact your legislator through the NJCC Voter Voice System:

https://www.votervoice.net/NJCC/Campaigns/112988/Respond

ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK

Schools Website

Mary McElroy, Esq., Director

NJ Network of Catholic School Families & Government Programs

Archdiocese of Newark

P.O. Box 9500 Newark, NJ 07104

973-497-4260