The Bishop O'Gorman Catholic Schools proudly present
A Knight for All Knights Fundraiser
Extravaganza is an energetic event offering participants the opportunity to bid on a variety of items and unique experiences donated by local businesses and supporters. Participants can also donate directly to the campaign as a tax deductible contribution, purchase raffle chances or attend the event to enjoy dinner and entertainment.
Extravaganza 2023 is scheduled for Saturday, April 1st. More details to follow soon.
Extravaganza 2022 was held Saturday, April 2 at the Meadow Barn at Country Orchards and definitely was a fun night for "All Knights"! Our community of families, alumni, friends and supporters came together to help raise money to support tuition assistance and staff salaries at all eight of our schools.
After two years of this event held virtually, guests were happy to see each other and enjoy this community event. Dinner was served family style while acoustic music was played. Soon the fun and laughter began as guests played a competed game of "Heads or Tails" and followed by the live auction. The Paddle Raise and the silent auction wrapped up the night's fundraising and the party began as the band, Junk FM took the stage and guests danced the night away!
Special thanks to all our sponsors, committee/staff members and all who donated their time and money to making this a night a success!
The 2021 Virtual Extravaganza was a night to remember!
Our community of families, alumni, friends and supporters came together to raise more money than we EVER have!
A Night for All Knights started off with emcee Joe Rutten, ‘96 grad, and our special guests for Collars and Cocktails! Thank you to Riccardo Tarabelsi from R Wine Bar and Nicki Ellerbroek, ‘98 grad, from McNally’s Irish Pub for helping us put together our boards and desserts and teaching us how to pour and pair our drinks. A special thank you to Fr. Cimpl and Fr. Morgan for being part of Collars and Cocktails and making us all smile and laugh!
Now onto the records that we crushed!
The Virtual Paddle Raise brought in $90,905 to support tuition assistance and staff salaries at all eight of our schools! This is truly amazing! Thank you to our families that donated to our $40,000 match and to the 80 plus donors that donated during the event! We are truly blessed to have such generous supporters.
You’ve Been Knighted broke our previous record from 2019 and raised $16,000! We had over 70 volunteers moving signs all around our community for 11 nights! The volunteers and the families that were knighted had so much fun and we have so many wonderful pictures to prove it! Thanks for sharing all of the adventures! New this year was the Grand Knighting where all 140 O’G signs were placed in one yard! Adam Fahrendorf, O’G grad of ‘04, woke up to find his yard filled with signs! We can’t wait to have families bid on the “Grand Knighting” for Extravaganza 2022 and keep the tradition going.
Now, for the final number…
Extravaganza 2021 raised $221,283 to support our amazing staff and tuition assistance at all eight of our Bishop O’Gorman Catholic Schools!
A big shout out to all of the Extravaganza committee members who worked hard gathering items for the auction and selling raffle tickets! Thank you to all of the businesses and families that donated items to the auction.
Extravaganza 2020 was originally scheduled for April 4, 2020. With the COVID-19 virus impacting all events in the city, we were forced to cancel our in-person event. After much consideration, we decided to have a virtual event on April 25, 2020. The night turned out to be a huge record-breaking night raising over $166,700 to help support our staff salaries and tuition assistance. WAY TO GO KNIGHTS!
Thank you to everyone that donated, bid on items, posted on Facebook and watched the event! It was so much fun to see how everyone was celebrating with their families and friends while still social distancing. We definitely missed being together in person but we also felt our community come together virtually to support our Knights! A special thank you to Ben Koch and Alex Anderson for doing such a fantastic job emceeing the event and making us all laugh!
More than $160,000 was raised for teachers’ salaries and tuition assistance. It was so clear that we have a community like none other—we have supporters, volunteers and donors from every school in the system.
