Annual Gala Announces Capital Campaign

Teresa Martinez | Director of Communications
 The Belen Jesuit community celebrated the school’s Annual Gala with over 800 people on October 26 at the Watsco Center at the University of Miami. 
 
“The Annual Gala exists to raise funds for the Financial Assistance Program providing assistance to deserving students who cannot afford a Jesuit education,” said Jesuit Father Guillermo M. García-Tuñón. “This year’s event is extra special because we are launching the public phase of the ‘For the Greater Glory’ campaign which aims to raise $34 million towards the strategic vision of the school.”
 
Since 2017, during the silent phase of the campaign, over $27 million was raised. The goal is to raise the remaining $7 million by 2022. Every gift received helps us in fulfilling the challenges set forth in the Strategic Plan (Strengthening our Catholic-Jesuit Identity, Academic Excellence, Forming Well-Rounded Men and Enhancing our Brotherhood) and we plan on announcing leadership level gifts in the coming months. 
 
“This year’s theme, GLORY, was chosen because we are celebrating a glorious period in our school’s history as we grow, expand, modernize and set out to fulfill the strategic vision we embarked on three years ago,” said Father García-Tuñón.  
 
Every year the Financial Assistance Program helps over 300 Belen students realize their dream of a Jesuit education; annually distributing in excess of $1.8 million. The Annual Gala is one of three signature events which include Tombola, and the Father Izquierdo Memorial Golf Tournament that helps raise money for this initiative. 
 
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Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain.  The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline.  In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty.  The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow.  Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.