All In For ASA!

 

If you walked into the Upper Campus gym or St. Jude's Brophy Center on Saturday night, you would find parents, staff, friends, family, and parishioners who had been itching to get back together to celebrate and support the Catholic education at All Saints Academy. The night was filled with good laughs, new games, great drinks and food, incredible prizes, and most importantly, many blessings. Truly our community went All In For ASA. 

Eaglefest 2021 raised the most donations in the history of Eaglefest, with a total gross revenue over $105,000. The net revenue is expected to be over $80,000. We also had a historical raise the paddle, raising over $20,000 plus two $5,000 matches for a total of $30,000. These raise the paddle funds will be used to further enhance the student experience at ASA. With new energy, growth in enrollment, and recent donations, ASA is able to start focusing on more external greatest needs. This year's funds will go towards enhancing the play space for our students, including improving the Upper Campus ball field, purchasing outdoor playground equipment for both campuses, replacing our weathered Eddie the Eagle mascot and building funds for the next phase of improvements. Great strides were made at Eaglefest towards ensuring our students can partake in good old fashioned play.

While our traditional games and raffles returned, we added a new twist to a few of them. The Taste of Grand Rapids Big 5 game offered a bonus entry if you could guess the correct baby food flavor and the Jewel Quest Big 5 game also offered a bonus entry if you could pick the diamond in the bucket of rice and jewels. We also added a Spin the Wheel game with a grand prize of a Blackstone grill and smaller prizes of Biggby gift cards, Meijer gift cards, and ASA gear.

Some of this year's live auction packages included a Slipknot Charter fishing package, a night downtown getaway package, polish dinner with the Debri family, and a taste of Asia dinner with Fr. Chung in addition to the classic front row concert seating and the Principal for the Day packages. Our class projects sold between $175 and $500, with Preschool 4's Santa Cookie Plate and Milk Mug selling for $500. 

As Heads and Tales was being played at the end of the night, we added up the total costs raised from admission tickets, online donations, raffle tickets, and any donations and sales that evening. The total at that time was just over $98,000. With encouragement from the crowd, Mr. Debri led another raise the paddle to reach $100,000 that evening.

You can watch the short recap video below to see a glimpse into what Eaglefest all included this year:

Eaglefest 2021 is a night our community will never forget. A special thank you goes out to the Eaglefest committee for all their hard work in making the night a success. Thank you to everyone for going All In For ASA, so ASA can keep forming saints to serve all!

If you were not able to make it Eaglefest and would still like to make a donation, our teacher wishlists are still open! You can make a donation online at asagr.ejoinme.org/eaglefest.