The benefit auction is a critical fundraiser to our school enabling us to maintain a balanced budget, but even more, allows us to provide things above and beyond what our budget allows. In the past ten years, we have raised nearly $150,000 just in our special appeal to fund a variety of needs: white boards in every classroom, rubber chips for our playground, iPads for every middle school student and a small lab of iPads for K-5 classrooms, other targeted technology projects, and physical upgrades in every classroom. Without the support of our staff, parents, parishioners, and business community members, none of that would have been accomplished.