This year’s Lion’s Share focus isn’t flashy but it’s foundational. Funds raised support critical campus improvements:
✅ New Roof
✅ New HVAC Unit
These projects protect our classrooms, safeguard resources, and ensure a comfortable learning environment for our students.
We invite every member of our school community to prayerfully consider contributing to this important fund. With your help, we can continue to build on our foundation of faith and provide an exceptional Catholic education for years to come.
Endowments
A school endowment is a dedicated fund established to provide long-term financial sustainability for a school.
For Catholic education, these endowments are vital as they help sustain the mission of providing faith-based education and nurturing the spiritual, academic, and personal growth of students.
Managed by the Foundation of the Diocese of Chalotte, endowments are permanent, with the principal kept intact in perpetuity and invested to create a growing source of income. The endowment grows through additional gifts, income and capital appreciation.
If you are interested in supporting one of the endowments listed below or establishing a new endowment, please contact Camile Denhard at 704.370.3303 or via email at cbdenhard@rcdoc.org.
St. Leo Catholic School Endowment Fund
Provides scholarship assistance for students at St. Leo Catholic School in Winston-Salem, NC
Sister Emma Yondura Endowment Fund
Provides tuition assistance for students at St. Leo Catholic School in Winston-Salem, NC
Cornelius Alexander Davis, II Tuition Assistance Endowment Fund
Provides tuition assistance for students of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church to attend St. Leo Catholic School, both in Winston-Salem, NC
Joseph and Margaret Baldi Endowment Fund (St. Leo the Great Church Endowment that benefits St. Leo students)
Provides tuition assistance for children of parishioners of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church to attend St. Leo Catholic School, both in Winston-Salem, NC
Planned Giving
Planned gifts to St. Leo Catholic School offer a unique opportunity to leave a lasting legacy, ensuring the continued strength and sustainability of Catholic education for future generations. Examples of planned gifts include a bequest in your will, beneficiary designation through your IRA or 401(k), gifts of real estate or other tangible assets, gifts of life insurance, charitable remainder trust or charitable gift annuity. Our dedicated team is here to guide you in establishing, designating and managing planned gifts and endowments that align with
your vision.
The Sister Emma Yondura Endowment Fund
For over twenty-five years, Sister Emma Yondura, S.S.J., has been an integral part of the fabric of St. Leo Catholic School -- as a beloved first grade teacher, as the school's facilitator of Catholic identity, and as our after school care leader. First-graders have been Sister’s love since she began as a teacher in the Diocese of Charlotte in 1970, and her students have learned from her how to do their very best, as God has called them to do.
The Sister Emma Yondura Endowment Fund is being established to honor and commemorate Sister Emma’s inspiring legacy at St. Leo Catholic School. The endowment will enable St. Leo to award a full scholarship annually to a rising first-grader whose family would not be able to afford a St. Leo education otherwise.
Please prayerfully consider a gift to the Sister Emma Yondura Endowment Fund, and help us ensure that Sister Emma’s legacy will endure at St. Leo for generations to come.