Vision in Action Donor Honor Roll
Dear Friends, As we look forward to the new year, we can be proud of the fact that we accomplished a lot in 2010-2011. We set a new goal for the Annual Fund, raising nearly $500,000 and we completed the Campaign (Vision in Action: People, Program & Potential). What is most gratifying is to see how our students and teachers have reaped the benefits of the community’s philanthropy. As I walk the halls of the school, I see teachers whose enthusiasm and excitement for engaging our students was positively enhanced by the Campaign’s investment in faculty professional learning and compensation. I also see students who have more resources at the ready. We have new technology, new support systems and the ECCO Program (Explore, Connect and Commit to Opportunities) to name just a few of the many improvements to the overall program. But more on the Annual Fund, the most important cog in the development machinery of the School. We are very happy to have raised close to $500,000 and we did that thanks to the outstanding support and loyalty of our School Committee, 63% of our parents, 16% of our Alumni and 75% of our fulltime faculty and administration. So, let’s do the math. What if we could get even more of our community to understand the impact of their donations to the School and we thereby reached higher levels from our constituent groups. For example, what if we were able to have our alumni reach a participation level of 25%? And then couple that with an increase in our parent giving to a level of 80%! We have the ability to do more for our students and so my challenge to our community is to keep reaching for higher participation levels. The more we participate in the Annual Fund, the richer our program becomes and the better it is for each and every student at AFS! In addition, I am pleased to report that we raised over $140,000 for tuition assistance in our PAEITC Program (Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit Program) and about $20,000 from the Third Hank Faulkner Golf Outing. Finally, several more of the Athletic Projects from the Momentum Campaign were funded by parents and friends of the School, notably the baseball infield and the Thode Gym.
We are grateful to the members of our community who have made pledges to the Vision in Action Campaign, accelerating our ability to have an immediate impact on every student on a daily basis by investing in our faculty, empowering our students and connecting our community. This listing reflects combined gifts and pledges to both the Capital and Annual Fund portions of the Campaign. $200,000 and above Rodney and Tracey Sandmeyer Sheares Family Charitable Foundation Bradley Sheares and Adrienne Simmons
$100,000 to $200,000 Anonymous Mark and Heather Garrison Kevin and Margaret McGlynn Patrick Mutchler and Ann Thompson Susan Salesky Rudin ’57 and Jack Rudin Irvin and Anita Schorsch Peter ’75 and Bonnie ’75 Schorsch
$50,000 to $100,000 Anonymous (2) David and Gwen Campbell Gail Faulkner and John Oyler Steven and Ricki Fisher Jeffrey and Suzanne Kahn Wilf Family Foundation Jane Frieder Wilf ’84 and Mark Wilf
I look forward to seeing you on campus and thank you very much for your support of AFS!
$25,000 to $50,000
Jon M. Harris Assistant Head of School for Institutional Advancement
Total Contributions to AFS for the 2010-2011 Fiscal Year:
Steven and Ilene Berman Robert and Patricia Delany Myrna Goodman and Hilary Goodman Sperling ’99 Janet Israel Eugene Lugano and Marcia Boraas Robert and MaryAnn Watson Edwin S. Webster Foundation Jon M. and Cynthia Harris Sandy Harris
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