Charity gaming should be for charities
I was appalled to learn that St. Paul’s School is a beneficiary of charity gaming in New Hampshire. According to its website, the prep school has an endowment of $747 million and net assets of just over one billion dollars.
The article reported that St. Paul’s received more than $200,000 last year from a single casino — The Brook in Seabrook. The school used that money to partially finance its Advanced Studies Program. I have long applauded this four-week academic summer program, open to New Hampshire students regardless of their ability to pay. Tuition and room and board for the ASP cost $5,000, with 40 % to 50% of attendees receiving financial aid from the school. But surely St. Paul’s can finance this outstanding program without taking money intended to support charitable work.
I call on St. Paul’s to leave charitable gaming to genuine charities, and to turn monies received from charitable gaming over to a real charity. My suggestion: The Concord Coalition to End Homelessness, which Sruthi Gopalakrishnan reported took in just $14,000 from charitable gaming in 2025, 7% of the amount received by St. Paul’s. I look forward to St. Paul’s response.