Founders Day is fast approaching!
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, February 5, and make plans to join the Mount St. Mary community as we celebrate in a BIG way!
Founded by the Sisters of Mercy on February 5, 1851, Mount St. Mary Academy is celebrating 168 years of providing Mercy education to young women in Arkansas. In honor of this special day, and inspired by the spirit of Catherine McAuley, Mount St. Mary Foundation will host a unique and fun-filled 12-hour Day of Giving with a fundraising goal of $10,000. Please help us reach this goal – and celebrate this wonderful milestone – by making a gift to The Mount, “the best school we know of!”
Making your gift is easy!
1. Donate online (see Donate Now button below)
2. Call 501.664.8006
3. Or visit us in person in the school’s entry foyer between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Tuesday, February 5
Help make this Founders Day a success and support our mission to make quality education available to all young women – make your gift on February 5!
And stay tuned to our Facebook and Instagram pages in the days leading up to Founders Day, and especially on February 5, for exciting updates, announcements and photos from this inaugural event.
For more information, contact Melissa Stiles ’89, Director of Donor Giving, at 501.664.8006, ext. 119 or mstiles@mtstmary.edu.
“No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.”
Catherine McAuley, founder of Sisters of Mercy

