Dear LASSCA members,

As the academic year draws to a close, I want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to each of you. Your leadership, dedication and resilience have guided your schools through another year of growth, learning and community. 

While students may be sprinting toward summer with excitement, we know the finish line for school leaders often means wrapping up reports, planning for the fall and finally — maybe — finding a moment to breathe. 

As you shift gears, I hope you find time to relax, recharge and enjoy the season. You've certainly earned it. 

Wishing you a restful and well-deserved summer break! 

Kind regards,

Sarah Laitinen
Director of Education and Formation 
Christian Brothers Conference 

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The 2025 Huether Lasallian Conference will take place Nov. 20-22, in St. Louis, Missouri. Abstracts for breakout session presentations of 75 minutes are now being accepted by the Huether planning committee. Presentations should focus on how Lasallians are or could be addressing the conference theme, “Building Sacred Bridges: Igniting our Vocation as Lasallian Educators.”

Chief administrators, consider sending this information to a faculty or staff member who would be able to present on the topic.

Mission Energy has been developing on-site solar for the Catholic community for seven years. Through our Catholic Energies program, in association with the Catholic Climate Covenant, we have become the most trusted source of informing Catholic properties on the economic and mission-aligned opportunities from using on-site solar power generation. 

Our Christian Brothers community includes a ground mounted solar array we developed for Christian Brothers Center in Narragansett, Rhode Island. We are reaching out to the Lasallian school community because a number of your schools reside in utility markets that offer the highest proportion of financial incentives to use solar. This includes the opportunity to both directly pay for and own the solar array for their own use and preserve your capital and have third party Power Purchase Agreements pay for the solar array. 

Whether the solar is installed as a carport, roof top, or ground mount array, it has become a vital resource for schools to control and reduce rising utility tariffs, which none of us can control. It provides protection of roofs, increases the value of the property with little to no maintenance, aligns itself to the Christian Brothers’ stewardship of God’s creation, and provides a legacy investment long term to lower school operating costs.

We invite you to become informed of the economic potential specific to your school. We advise pro bono using financial modeling on a custom solar design in comparison to your utility tariff and costs. This analysis will provide leadership a clear understanding whether using solar makes sense for the school. State, utility and federal cash rebate incentives have never been collectively this large for nonprofits to benefit from solar.

We will show you specifically how solar would impact your financial performance, measuring total costs, annual savings, IRR, payback and listing all available incentives. 

Interested in learning more? Contact Page Gravely at page@mission.energy