FUNDRAISING UPDATE
20–21 Dear fellow ASIJ Community members,
As I write this, my colleagues are diligently stuffing envelopes with the current Printer’s Proof of the 2020–21 ASIJ Annual Fund and by the time you read this it should have already hit your mailbox. This list is a forerunner to the donor roll we publish in the fall issue of the magazine and it serves a few different purposes: it ensures that our donors are recognized in the way that they would like to be recognized (I noticed that my wife wasn’t listed with me, so there’s one correction that needs to be made!); it ensures that we haven’t missed anyone who has given this year; and of course, it also serves as a reminder for people who thought they had given already, that perhaps they haven’t (yet!). This is an impressive document in size and content; it speaks very loudly to the increasing support that the school is receiving each year from the community; I know I’m not the first to say, “Thank you” and I know I won’t be the last. The Annual Fund is a key part of the school’s ability to provide more programs, more personnel, and improved facilities without having to raise tuition in lockstep with those improvements. Keeping our tuition affordable while improving our educational outcomes allows us to strive to be elite without becoming elitist. This year the Annual Fund played an important role in allowing us to respond to COVID-19 by putting in place new safety protocols and hiring temporary staff to deal with challenges presented by the pandemic. Further examples of the impact of the Annual Fund can be found on the following pages. We are well on our way to setting a record this year for the amount raised and number of participants. When everyone joins together to support the Annual Fund with an amount that is meaningful to them, it continues to give the school the confidence to reach ever further each year, ensuring the commitment to excellence that all ASIJ community members demand of their school. Thank you to all of you who have chosen to support our school in this way. Warm regards,
Clive Watkins Director of Institutional Advancement
THE AMBASSADOR \\ SPRING 2021
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