CNA Staff, Feb 13, 2024 / 14:45 pm
Major expansions are coming to the Benedictine-run Belmont Abbey College after the North Carolina school quickly hit its fundraising goal of $100 million two years ahead of schedule.
Some of those funds have already been put to use with a new dining hall, lab space, and strengthening of its endowment.
The “Made True” campaign, launched in February of last year, has aims of allotting $15 million toward building a new monastery for the 14 monks on campus, raising a new performing arts center, and launching career and family initiatives supporting religious freedom, according to a press release announcing the initiative last year.
In a Tuesday press release, the school announced that the North Carolina General Assembly allotted $9 million of the state’s 2023–2024 budget toward the construction of the performing arts center.