BRONZEVILLE — De La Salle will be able to give 60 needy students scholarships for this year thanks to a large grant from the Bernard Heerey Family Foundation.
The high school received $210,000 for this school year to provide financial assistant to families with multiple kids at De La Salle, the school said in a press release. The grant will allow for 60 scholarships worth $3,500 each.
Since 2007, the Heerey Family Foundation has given more than $2 million to the school.
Bernard Heerey was a Chicago businessman who, after his death at age 79, left much of his fortune to Catholic institutions throughout the city. His charity gives out $3 million annually in grant funds, according to its website.
"We remain deeply grateful to the Bernard Heerey Family Foundation for its generosity and endorsement of De La Salle's position as an education leader in Chicago," De La Salle Director of Development Iris Gist Coochran said in a 2016 statement. "The foundation's investment in our students and families enables De La Salle to further its mission of providing an excellent an innovative education to the young women and men attending our school."
