Over the past eleven years, students from Salesianum, Padua, and Ursuline have raised over 1.6 million dollars for local nonprofit organizations in the Wilmington area. Such as the Ronald McDonald House of Delaware, the B + Foundation (2 years), Sean’s House, Limen House, Child Inc., St. Patrick’s Center, Summer Collab, Delaware Center for Homeless Veterans, AI DuPont Children’s Hospital, and this year’s beneficiary is St. Patrick’s Center. St. Patrick’s Center has been serving people in Wilmington for over 50 years and transforming lives by addressing poverty and restoring hope to the lives of the Wilmington community. The goal for this year is to raise $175,000 and we are almost a third of the way there at $53,870.06.
As we have heard over the past couple of months SALSTHON in previous years has been an overnight dance with games, challenges, surprises, and performances. In order to get a ticket to SALSTHON students have to register on salsthon.org and raise $250 for their own ticket and $350 for a guest ticket. However this year there are a couple of changes to the event to make it the best event possible and lower safety concerns. It is no longer overnight but will be from 5pm-12am. There will be a guest artist who has millions of listeners on Spotify and hints will be coming as we hit fundraising goals over the next few weeks.
Now I am sure there are a lot of questions about how to fundraise and why we should fundraise so I have asked Frank Holodick to give a few tips, explain what SALSTHON means to him, and why changes have happened. “SALSTHON to me, is, it’s a way for Sallies to extend its community and brotherhood that we’re really used to inside the building to the greater Wilmington area. I think it’s not, I mean, not only that the impact it has on our community is incredible with raising over almost $2 million. What we’ve been hitting this year, just about $2 million for nonprofits around the area that helped, you know, homeless people, people with mental disabilities, people with cancer, you know, all these types of things.”
Causes for change: “But in previous years, SALSTHON was like, well, we don’t we didn’t have my freshman year because of COVID. Okay, and so I’ve been to SALSTHON , but it was kind of like this, like a mythical idea. Everyone, you know, talks about SALSTHON and blah, blah. There’s so much hype, especially during that freshman year. And then I went and it was a lot of fun the first year. Yeah, just a blast. And like, everything everyone was said about, you know, the overnight dance dancing events. It was really cool. Last year, same exact thing. The overnight kind of got stale. That was really, really fun for me for the first year, which is why we made the switch this year, because I think it was a lot of trying to be overnight every year. But yeah, just a super fun event. Super fun. There’s so many things going on.
Tips for fundraising: “The student council at Padua, Ursuline and Sallies are working really really hard right now to make this thing the best that we can. But yeah, obviously, it’s not you know, we can’t do everything. A lot of the excitement and hype like people are obviously going to play off of us but we got to get people engaged and we got to get people to buy in and I because I think the more people that buy in, they bring their friends, their friends spread the word, you get more people. So yeah, I mean, even just to you or anyone reading this newspaper should absolutely jump on it, get your fundraising go and get your friends get your, you know, exponential growth, get people to sign up for people to raise 250.”
As Salesianum students we need to spread the word however we can do just that through social media, podcasts, or newspapers, and get some donations in for a great cause. So be loud, get hype, and support our beneficiary!!
