Fenwick Case for Support

Providing Opportunity for Achievement

Opportunity Meets Achievement at Fenwick

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very day I see classrooms filled with attentive learners, spirited competition on our playing fields, respect and reverence at school-wide liturgies, and personal

confidence gained through extra-curricular activities. Our students know we believe in them, expect them to grow, and will help them each step of the way on their personal journey.

Fenwick Strategic Plan The 2014 - 2018 Strategic Plan created by the Fenwick Board of Trustees with administration, staff and faculty input, set forth a series of ambitious priorities for achieving continued school and student success.

Significant progress has been achieved.

BOD Deliverables in this column

This has been the case for nearly 60 years. Grounded in our faith and unwavering core values, Bishop Fenwick has continued to serve our students well. During this same sixty years, our world and the economic realities of private Catholic education have also dramatically changed. As a school we must continue to be nimble and adjust to changes so that our students are

Notable accomplishments include:

• Strengthening the legacy of our Catholic mission.

• Sustaining enrollment growth •

well prepared to be productive global citizens and leaders in adulthood.

We continue with thoughtful action and careful planning to define and refine how we

Building on the foundation of academic excellence and rigor.

• Expanding the academic, art, technology, and extra-curricular programs

can best serve and prepare our students. In recent years we have made significant

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progress as demonstrated by our Strategic Plan. More hard work is needed and will

• Improving the physical plant and athletic fields

require the partnership and generosity of the entire Fenwick Community.

Please get involved and do your part so that Bishop Fenwick continues to thrive and grow. Help put our motto of “Goodness and Loyalty” into action.

Fenwick is counting on you.

Sincerely,

Implementing enhanced technology.

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Increasing fundraising and creating a culture of giving

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Ensuring financial stability and growth.

The creation of the 2019 - 2023 Strategic Plan is enthusiastically underway.

Please help us continue to provide the opportunities and support for our students. Together we face the future with confidence and enthusiasm.

Br. Thomas Zoppo, FSC Principal/Head of School

Students achieve in all facets of Academically •

22 Advanced Placement courses are offered

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Honors-level courses available across all

Creatively •

performing arts

disciplines • •

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collected over 30 Boston Globe All Scholastic

college-level writing skills

Art Awards, leading the North Shore

Our Learning Center provides individual

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Concert Choir is regularly invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York

100% of our current students have been

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accepted at colleges & universities •

In the last two years, the art department

Our 4-year Writing Program ensures strong

support and instruction for all of our students •

75% of our students participate in music or the

Close to 25% of the student body participate in the production of four plays annually

On average, Fenwick students have won the

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Medeiros Award at BU every year for over 20

Student musicians perform on average 25 times annually on and off campus

years

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Over their high school career, 100% of students participate in a fine or performing art

Athletically •

80% of students participate in one or more of our 26 different sports

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Nearly 50% of the students who play a sport, play three sports each year

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In the past five years every sport has won a title or advanced to its highest level of competition

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More than 40% of our National Honor Society scholars are also athletes

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More than 15 Fenwick sports programs competed in the MIAA State tournament in the last two years

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Fenwick students regularly play at the college level

their life at Fenwick Personally •

Students choose to participate 30 clubs and extra-curricular activities

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80% of students participate in five or more extra and co-curricular activities

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Our Peer Leadership program offers hands-on leadership skills training

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Peer Leaders lead community service activities, guidance seminars, retreats and liturgy planning, and Open House and Orientation

• Fenwick’s Personal Best Program is a 4-year program that provides each student a foundation for greater achievement experience.

Spiritually •

100% of the student body take part in the Campus Ministry Program

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Daily Mass and spiritual counseling is available to all students

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Students and faculty provide more than 10,000 hours of community service annually

• “Fenwick Five for Goodness and Loyalty” encourage the development of character, leadership and faith.

• Students actively plan and participate in all aspects of school-wide liturgies

College Placement Success

Everything old is new again...

Fenwick has been educating children for 60 years, instilling in them the values of Jesus Christ, a selfless desire to give to others, and the motivation to work hard and be a leader. Exactly what our communities need. Our students have been achieving these things in an school building that is long overdue for some upgrades.

Now that is going to change. Our teachers and students will be able to achieve their goals in a beautiful building. Here are our plans: • •

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The original windows are going, and will be replaced by beautiful, new, environmentally efficient windows.

We are creating a new entrance, one that will make the right statement about the importance of the work we do at Fenwick, and one that provides accessibility to everyone.

We are also creating new indoor and outdoor multi-use spaces for our students to gather, share ideas, make friends, talk about their achievement, and hold exhibits and small school functions.

This work is scheduled to begin this summer of 2018.

Total cost: $7,000,000

...and the goals, points, and touchdowns can keep on coming on our improved fields

Steven E. Donaldson Stadium

Fenwick Tennis Courts

• New 80,000 sq. ft. of Legion HP 2.0 turf, believed to be the best product on the market

Drinkwater Varsity & JV Baseball Fields • 8,000 sq. ft. of new sod in the infield to match the perfect outfield • New black vinyl fence along each dugout and backstop

James R. Brady Jr. Memorial Track

• New surface

• A new, permanent Discus cage

• New poles • New nets

Slade Softball Field • New fence at the backstop & dugouts • 40 tons of new infield clay • Regrading all edges of the field

Keep Achievement Possible

The Fenwick Fund

Special Gifts to Sponsor a Student

Annual giving is the foundation of a development program and we welcome

We are committed to keeping a Fenwick education within reach for our current

gifts, both large and small. For many alumni, parents and friends supporting

and prospective families. More than fifty percent of our students receive

the Fenwick Fund, our annual campaign, in support of our current operating

some financial aid. This ever-growing need is a challenge. We welcome the

budget is the best place to have the greatest impact on our ability to provide

chance to partner with individuals to help fund a portion of the $2,000,000+

our students with a comprehensive and high quality education. Times have

awarded annually in financial aid through our “Sponsor a Student Program.”

changed and a Fenwick education is expensive. Unfortunately, tuition alone does not cover the costs. Because Fenwick does not have a large endowment, annual gifts and tuition are critical. The majority of gifts to the Fenwick Fund are unrestricted for general use. However, it is possible to direct your gift to a specific area that is meaningful to you; financial aid and faculty support are two examples.

This program provides our donors with a powerful and tangible way to make a Fenwick experience possible for a current student by helping to underwrite a student’s financial aid award on an annual basis. Sponsorships are established at a minimum range of $3,000 to $5,000 for the duration of the student’s time at Bishop Fenwick.

Endowed Funds Establishing

a

Capital Gifts named

fund

We are actively seeking assistance from alumni,

provides much needed income and reduces

parents and friends to help fund the much

pressure on the school’s operating budget.

needed improvements to and renovation of

Gifts of Cash

Endowments can be established with an initial

our school building and athletic fields here on

Gifts of cash are the simplest form of support

campus. These upgrades

you can make to Fenwick. When you make a

are long overdue and

gift of cash, you are entitled to an income tax

necessary.

deduction of that amount, up to 50 percent

commitment of $25,000 for a student scholarship or support of a particular

endowed

Ways to Give

“

program, up to $500,000

My faith is a huge part of my life, and

for a faculty chair. You

being at Fenwick helps me to strengthen it

may

also

establish

an

endowed fund for general support. One of our long

Some of this work will

and be reminded of God’s presence.

over

time

as Fenwick’s endowment is quite modest, particularly compared to peer institutions.

Named, endowed funds are a wonderful way to provide and sustain our good work and

completed

the

summer

during

of

2018.

improvements is Bishop Fenwick’s

top

priority.

Appropriate public recognition for individual donors and benefactors that help underwrite this

ambitious

$7,000,000

available.

project

are

“

year carry-over period for the excess.

Payton '19 Funding these campus

term goals is to grow our endowment

be

of your adjusted gross income, with a five-

I know I would not be the person I am today without my teachers. I would like to thank them for dedicating their time to help prepare me for college and beyond.

Mission for the future.

Lauren '17

“My mother and father made Catholic education a priority for our family.

Kerrie and I appreciate this commitment, and we make giving back to

My sister Kerrie and I began attending Catholic school in kindergarten and

Fenwick priorities in our lives. We are grateful that we are capable of

continued on through our graduations from Fenwick.

supporting Fenwick, and want to help ensure that current and future students

While at Fenwick, our parents wanted us to learn and grow in an

also benefit from the Fenwick experience.”

environment that emphasized faith, and provided us with academic, athletic and social opportunities. Fenwick shaped our lives, careers and relationships. As with many families both then and now, ours made sacrifices so we could attend Fenwick.

Maura Sullivan ‘83 Fenwick Trustee

Help us continue to provide opportunities for achievement Outright Gifts of Appreciated Securities A gift of long-term, appreciated stock saves

Accounts, establishing a Charitable Gift

money in two ways: your income taxes are

Annuity, Charitable Lead Trust or Charitable

reduced because of the charitable donation,

Remainder Trust, gifts of Tangible Property

and you avoid the capital gains tax that

or Real Estate, and Life Insurance. These are

would have applied had you sold the shares

just few of the options.

yourself. Gifts of appreciated securities may also allow you to make a larger gift to Fenwick than you could with cash.

Matching Gifts More than 900 companies offer matching gift programs that support private secondary schools. Bishop Fenwick encourages our alumni and parents to check and take full advantage of this additional funding opportunity.

Planned Giving and the 1959 Heritage Society There are many ways to contribute to Bishop Fenwick High School, and one or more of them can benefit your personal financial planning. Some of these options include: Gifts made through Independent Retirement

The 1959 Heritage Society recognizes the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends of Bishop Fenwick who provide for the School through deferred gifts, bequests, or trust instruments. Our staff welcomes the opportunity to meet with you and your advisors to discuss your philanthropic goals and how you can include Fenwick in your estate and financial plans.

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Fenwick offered me so many opportunities, and I had so many experienced I never thought possible.

Lauren '17

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At Fenwick, I had the opportunity to reinvent myself. I’m not alone in this challenge. Any time I’ve felt lost, my teachers have always been there for me.

Cory '19

“Many years ago, my brothers and I were able to attend Fenwick because of a generous benefactor. We have never forgotten this. The school and its mission of faith, service and achievement remain strong and vibrant. My family supports Fenwick so that other young men and women may realize their dreams. It brings me joy and is one way to express gratitude for my Fenwick experience. I hope you will join me and my family by supporting one or several of Fenwick’s top priorities. This is an exciting and critical moment at Fenwick. Now, more than ever, our school needs our support.”

Dan Dunn, PhD '74 President, Board of Trustees

Our students will continue to achieve, given the opportunity In the Spotlight

The Treasures of Friendship

Success Inside and Out

Paige ‘16, from Marblehead,

Colbi ‘18, from Gloucester,

Nick ‘20, from Danvers,

flourished musically,

says her coaches taught

President of his class, will

particularly when

her the importance of

represent Fenwick at the

performing at Carnegie

determination, and engraved

Massachusetts Board of

Hall, singing the national

in her mind that there is

Elementary and Secondary

anthem at Celtics’ games,

nothing standing in the

Education, advocating for

and receiving “The One to

way of your goals besides

schools’ educational needs.

Watch” award on TV.

yourself. She will carry this

Fenwick has strengthened

mindset with her to college

his skills to succeed in and

and know that if she fails all

outside the classroom.

she has to do is get back up and try again.

Scholar Athletes

“Digital Assistant”

Serving While Learning

Shawn '17, from Wakefield,

Matthew ‘19, from Salem,

Isabella ‘21, from Revere, is

was captain of the track

is on the math team and

involved in several clubs that

team, a performer in many

a member of the National

focus on community service

theater productions, and

Honor Society. He also took

and volunteer work, such

“

a class officer. Shawn

a new and unexpected

as Campus Ministry, Habitat

received a scholarship to

opportunity with the soccer

for Humanity, and Healing

run Division I track.

team this year, not as a

Hearts. She also enjoys the

it to be a personal, tight-knit community. I

player, but as the team’s

French Club and the Spanish

“digital assistant” recording

Club to learn more about

value this more than anything and feel so

every game for the team to

different cultures.

review and improve.

I believe the smaller size of Fenwick allows

fortunate to be here.

Elizabeth '19

Mission Statement Bishop Fenwick High School is a Catholic, academically rigorous, and supportive co-educational college preparatory school. Bishop Fenwick is dedicated to creating an environment where all students can strive for and achieve excellence intellectually, spiritually, and creatively, as well as recognize their responsibility to serve others.

Vision Bishop Fenwick graduates will enter the world prepared, inspired, and able to excel in all they do, embracing the importance of service to others.

We carry with us the blessings and successes of our past, as we enter this new, exciting chapter.

Your support is critical in providing continued opportunities for students to learn and grow into leaders of the future with character, integrity, and faith.

FENWICK IS PERFECTLY POISED FOR THE FUTURE WITH YOUR SUPPORT.

Fenwick...where opportunity and achievement meet.

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