Annual Fund

Tuition funds are allocated for immediate expenses such as maintenance, salaries, and other general expenses; thus, those funds don’t allow us to advance future growth. Furthermore, while tuition is non-tax deductible, Annual Fund donations are.

Fundraising is essential for supporting future programming and infrastructure. Annual Fund campaigns can be geared toward current projects and expenses, but they can also serve for the future by preparing an engaged base of donors and volunteers. Instead of accruing additional debt from facility renovation, for example, fundraising can help prevent the tuition from increasing.

The Annual Fund also helps secure support from external funding sources. How? Often, external funding is delivered in the form of “matching” grants. This means that if an external funding source offers a sum of $25,000, for example, the school must be able to fundraise the same amount. Successful Annual Fund campaigns show our external funding sources that the school’s constituents are eager to support and can reliably raise a sum that matches their offer.

Annual Fund Contributions support budgeted programs that directly benefit students. The following programs are included:

Health & Safety: acquisition of personal protection, sanitizing equipment, upgraded ventilation systems, and newly secured and equipped spaces for physical distancing;

E-learning:  delivery of dynamic distance learning services using in-classroom cameras; supply laptops for students as needed, in addition to the yearly program providing all 6th graders a laptop for Middle School;

Professional Development: empowering teachers and staff to stand prepared for changing conditions and to adapt the pedagogical curriculum to meet students’ rapidly evolving educational needs; 

Financial Aid: funding the financial aid program to meet increased demand and to maintain social economic diversity and sustain community integrity. 

In years prior to 2020, the fund enabled the following programs.

Artist-in-Residence – An illustrator, writer, sculptor or artist spends a week on each campus to interact with students and classes.

Author-in-Residence – An author spends a week on each campus to interact with students and classes.

Art Week – A common art theme developed for our primary campus that involves collaborative class art projects, culminating in an Art show.

Day and Overnight Field Trip Support – Helps underwrite a portion of the costs for student field trips. 

 

 

 

Parents, Grandparents, faculty and staff, alumni parents, alumni and LFSF friends, donating at whatever level they find comfortable, receive full credit for the Annual Fund’s success.