The Annual Fund helps keep St. X's tuition as low as possible for all families. Currently, because of the impact of the Annual Fund each year, the tuition paid by each family is subsidized by more than $3,000, helping to make our education accessible. Additionally, the Annual Fund helps our school provide need-based tuition assistance to 40% of the student body. These deserving students and their families receive $6,000 on average, fulfilling just over 60% of demonstrated need. 

In a typical year, annual gifts ranging from $10 to more than $25,000 are received from more than 7,000 donors. Annual gifts are made in the form of cash or appreciated securities, and each year more than 1,000 St. Francis Xavier Society members provide 70% of the Annual Fund giving total. It is the school's hope that alumni, parents, parents of alumni, and friends consider some level of support each year. 

Endowed funds, specifically restricted for tuition assistance, provide our school with the ongoing resources to seek out, invite, and enroll a deserving, diverse, and growing student body. These funds support the key, long-term strategic aim of our school to fully accommodate each family's demonstrated financial need for tuition assistance. Simply put, without financial resources available to deserving students and their families, St. X will not be able to fully achieve its Xaverian mandate to "establish inclusive communities of faith in our schools" while maintaining an "academically demanding education program."

The Callahan Media Center opened in 1973 to provide much-needed instructional space and resources to the growing campus community. Since its opening, there have been no major renovations other than carpet replacement, the addition of computers, and small adjustments to the faculty work area.

Now is the time to renew the facility and add space suited to current courses, individual and collaborative assignments, and the use of multimedia technologies.The new and renovated space will incorporate the following concepts:

• Flexible and differentiated spaces that can be configured to support collaborative group projects and individual learning.
• Additional classrooms equipped with the latest technology and flexible furnishings.
• Media production space utilizing a closed-circuit television platform.
• Extended hours of availability.
• Gathering space for students as seen in a college student center.

Growing endowments in support of faculty positions, faculty and staff professional development, and instructional resources will allow St. X to provide personalized, cutting-edge programs and attention to each student in perpetuity.

While endowments can be established for any purpose, the X Effect Campaign goals invite donors to consider growing our endowment in the following ways:

• Endowed Chairs and Endowed Fellows
• Endowed Academic Programs
• Endowed Co-curricular and Extracurricular Programs
• Endowed Professional Development Funds

Most current donors desire to see St. X prosper and grow well beyond their lifetimes. Not only is making a planned gift that benefits St. X easy, it also achieves the broader, more important goal of ensuring the X Effect continues well into the future.

Including St. X as a beneficiary in a will, life insurance policy or 401(k), or establishing a Charitable Gift Annuity or Trust that accrues benefits to St. X, does not have to be complex and can even help you achieve broader goals for your family and loved ones. We invite every donor to participate in this portion of the campaign by making a planned giving arrangement that will benefit future students.