Partnership Schools Annual Report 2023

ANNUAL REPORT JANUARY 2023

Partnership Schools

As an independent 501(c)3 and private school management organization, Partnership Schools puts once-struggling urban Catholic schools on the path to long-term sustainability. We work to ensure that our schools have what they need to form students in knowledge and virtue so that they can live out our core values of integrity, humility, hard work, and service. Partnership Schools is a national network, serving students in Harlem, the South Bronx, and Cleveland, while also playing a leading role in education reform conversations nationwide.

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Making ambitious choices is what Partnership Schools is all about—now, more than ever.

The Partnership Class of 2022—the first class to have known only a Partnership education from Kindergarten through 8th grade—is now halfway through their first year in high school. They are beating the odds, as you’ll see in the following pages—and our network, which began as a bold experiment a decade ago, is now a proven model. We have much to celebrate and much yet to achieve.

Partnership students’ progress is no happy accident. It is the consequence of academic, operational, and financial decisions we’ve made every year since the Partnership began. This report reflects the outcomes of decisions that include: Selecting and implementing a knowledge-rich, academically rigorous curriculum for all students beginning in PreK—and maintaining that focus on grade-level rigor even amid the worst of the pandemic in 2020.

Always putting students first, even when that meant shutting our doors to protect our communities (in Spring 2020) and reopening our doors months before our charter and public school peers (in Fall 2020); Eliminating barriers to enrollment and dramatically increasing the number of at-risk students served in both New York and Cleveland; Answering the call to expand our impact by welcoming four schools in Cleveland—two in 2020 and two more in fall 2022; Making bold asks of our most loyal supporters on behalf of the children and families we serve.

Today, the challenges our communities face are greater than they have been in decades. Our students need us to be bolder and more ambitious than ever before. Our experience has prepared us to help even the most struggling students in the communities we serve. Buoyed by your support of our work, we know we can rise to meet the moment and act with courage and conviction on behalf of the second generation of Partnership students.

We can’t say it enough: thank you for deciding to make a new day possible for thousands of children and the schools that serve them.

JILL KAFKA,EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

K AT H L E E N P O R T E R - M AG E E , S U P E R I N T E N D E N T

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10 YE What was once a bold experiment...

2012

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EARS

is now a proven model, serving more children than ever before.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL

SAINT ATHANASIUS SCHOOL

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS SCHOOL

ST. CHARLES BORROMEO SCHOOL

ST. MARK THE EVANGELIST SCHOOL

SACRED HEART SCHOOL

SAINT FRANCIS SCHOOL

ST. THOMAS MT. CARMELAQUINAS HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL SCHOOL

METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL

2019

IMMACULATE OUR LADY CONCEPTION QUEEN OF ANGELS SCHOOL SCHOOL

SAINT ARCHBISHOP ATHANASIUS LYKE SCHOOL SCHOOL

2020

MCS

MCS

METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL

2022

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N E W YO R K

CLEVELAND

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Courage In 2013, Catholic schools in Harlem and the Bronx faced an all-too-familiar cycle: strapped budgets, overstretched educators, languishing academics, and declining enrollments. It required courage—from philanthropists, school leaders, and the Archdiocese of New York—to try a new path; no other diocese had tried a school management organization when Partnership Schools took on complete responsibility for six schools in the summer of 2013.

Yet it worked. Students’ academic achievement accelerated and enrollment increased. And the impact has been timely; during Partnership Schools’ first ten years, one in every eight Catholic schools in the U.S. has closed permanently.

When the pandemic struck, our Partnership communities chose courage again—reopening safely in person long before others did. Our teachers and leaders faced their own apprehensions and some vociferous criticism but chose to put children’s needs first.

And even in the midst of a turbulent time, Partnership supporters in Cleveland also chose to move forward with expanding our work there—beginning with two schools in 2020 and expanding to four this year.

As we enter our second decade, Catholic schools have new opportunities, and students face new challenges.

Yet we are facing them together now from a position of strength.

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Courage Growth CHOOSING

Serving more low-income students than ever before.

More Schools

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New in ’22

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL

SAINT ATHANASIUS SCHOOL

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS SCHOOL

ST. CHARLES BORROMEO SCHOOL

ST. MARK THE EVANGELIST SCHOOL

SACRED HEART SCHOOL

OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS SCHOOL

ARCHBISHOP LYKE SCHOOL

MT. CARMELHOLY ROSARY SCHOOL

M CS

METRO CATHOLIC SCHOOL

SAINT FRANCIS SCHOOL

More Students

CLEVELAND ENROLLMENT

N YC E N RO L L M E N T

2021

2022

1 ,1 2 3

+ 18% SINCE 2021

+2 schools

100 100

1,969

100

100

100

87+

2,254

2,318

460

2021

454

2022 2023

2023

More Investment A RECORD

$16.1M

OF PHILANTHROPY RAISED

More Supporters

100 42% NEW DONORS

BRINGING

IN

$1.8 Million 9

57+1+40A

NYC

N YC

57% H I S P A N I C O F A N Y R A C E 40% B L A C K / A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N 1% W H I T E 1% T W O O R M O R E R A C E S 1% A S I A N

47%

STUDENTS 2022-23

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OF STUDENTS COME FROM HOUSEHOLDS WHO EARN LESS THAN $35,000

2,318 N YC

100%

3,441

S TA UD N TI S OF STUDENTS RECEIVE FIN NE C AL AID 2022-23

+67A 1 70 A 9 7 12 1 + 1,123

Cleveland CLEVELAND STUDENTS 2022-23

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CLEVELAND

70% B L A C K / A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N 12% H I S P A N I C O F A N Y R A C E 9% W H I T E 7% T W O O R M O R E R A C E S 1% A S I A N 1% U N K N O W N R A C E

52%

OF STUDENTS COME FROM HOUSEHOLDS WHO EARN LESS THAN $35,000

79+ 53+

N YC E N RO L L M E N T

Free or Reduced Lunch

Catholic

CLEVELAND ENROLLMENT

460

100

Free or Reduced Lunch

Catholic

+ 18%

2023

93%

9%

2,318

SINCE 2021

53%

93+7 9+

100

79%

1 ,1 2 3

+ 2 schools

454

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Excellence The first generation of Partnership Schools students are beating the odds and flourishing.

Accelerating Achievement An entire decade of hard work has produced an inspiring picture of what is possible: our schools closed the achievement gap for the first generation of Partnership graduates.

NWEA Spring ’22 Reading, 8th grade 60

60

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50

40

40

30

30

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10

10

Percentile

Percentile

US WHITE

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NWEA Spring ’22 Math, 8th grade

PA R T N E R S H I P N YC

US BLACK

U S H I S PA N I C

US WHITE

PA R T N E R S H I P N YC

US BLACK

U S H I S PA N I C

UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES

4-Year Aid Offered

Since 2013, more than 1,250 New York Partnership graduates have gained admission to top-tier, selective high schools, being offered— in 2022 alone—a total of $3.34 million in scholarships and aid to attend.

$3.34M

$0.97M

2016

2022

77% NY students accepted to top-tier high schools

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S E L E C T AC C E P TA N C E S F O R C L A S S O F 2 0 2 2 Notre Dame High School

Avenues The World School

Fordham Preparatory School

Bronx High School of Science

Xavier High School

Riverdale Country School

Middlesex School

South Bronx Preparatory

Stuyvesant High School

Brooklyn Technical High School

LaGuardia High School Dominican Academy Convent of the Sacred Heart Loyola High School Regis High School

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Diem CindyJennings Williams

CPLRAI N S SC IOP F A L’ 2, 2B,L SAAHCBRLEADH H E A R T

When Diem Jennings was just four years old, her parents saw a flyer for Sacred Heart School in a Bronx For 107 years, since striving immigrants first began moving to the South Bronx hoping for laundromat—and for the last ten years, she and her parents found at Sacred Heart an education that a better life, St. Athanasius School has anchored the Hunts Point community and fueled its matched their aspirations. “They didn’t just want me to do well in school,” Diem explains of her parents, aspirations. Even through the devastation of the 1970s, when the neighborhood lost 70 per“they want me to have multiple dimensions that define me.” The school’s valedictorian in 2022, Diem cent of its housing stock to fires and demolition, and as the population collapsed by more explains what she thinks makes Sacred Heart special: “The teachers push you to be your best.” than 70 percent in just one decade, tenacious educators like former principal and community legend Marianne Kraft ensured the school remained a vibrant hub and beacon of hope When it came time to look for a high school, the family wasn’t necessarily looking at private school options, for the community. Literally surrounded by rubble, the school had the audacity to declare but at the urging of Principal Abigail Akano and others, they explored a few. And after receiving multiple that its students were “children of God and children of the earth”—and to provide them an scholarship offers and outperforming all other applicants on Convent of the Sacred Heart’s math placement education worthy of their dignity every day. test, Diem is in her first year there. Why does she like math so much? “It always gets more challenging,” she explains simply.

Marianne also hand-selected and groomed a successor, Bronx native Jessica Aybar, who carries on a vibrant legacy of leadership. In her eight years as a St. Athanasius teacher, academDiem’s parents credit her Partnership educators with making a crucial difference for their daughter: ic dean, and principal, Jessica has driven game-changing results. Under her leadership, the “When you feel people are invested in your child—and they are knowledgeable—then she is invested. school has seen academic achievement results that rival some of the top-performing public That makes all the difference.” and charter schools in the state, and she has grown enrollment and expanded the school by

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Working together as a team of teachers across the schools makes all the difference.

B R I D G E T C A R TA

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Community

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3+36+251332A 76+1+22A 37+49+14A 32+43+25A NYC

Cleveland

Our Faculty

N YC

FAC U LT Y 2021-22

CLEVELAND FAC U LT Y 2021-22

36% W H I T E 33% H I S P A N I C O F A N Y R A C E 25% B L A C K / A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N 3% T W O O R M O R E R A C E S 2% A M E R I C A N I N D I A N / A L A S K A N A T I V E 1% A S I A N / P A C I F I C I S L A N D E R

N YC

Y E A R S AT CURRENT SCHOOL 2021-22

76% W H I T E 22% B L A C K / A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N 1% T W O O R M O R E R A C E S 1% U N K N O W N

49% 1 - 5 Y E A R S 14% 6-10 Y E A R S 37% 11+ Y E A R S

43% 1 - 5 Y E A R S 25% 6-10 Y E A R S 32% 11+ Y E A R S

CLEVELAND

Y E A R S AT CURRENT SCHOOL 2021-22

Bridget Carta

P R E - K T E AC H E R, I M M AC U L AT E C O N C E P T I O N S C H O O L “The world has changed since I started teaching,” explains Bridget Carta. As a pre-K teacher, she has in-depth knowledge of what our newest Partnership students need. “They face new challenges; they’re going to have to be much more adaptive. And we’re going to have to teach them that.”

As a twenty-year teaching veteran who had a decade of experience at Immaculate Conception in the Bronx before it became part of the Partnership, she also has a keen sense of how she and her colleagues are equipped now to meet those challenges. “The resources we have in the Partnership are amazing. Just getting a set of classroom books used to be hard.”

The difference is more profound than even having the right curriculum and supplies. “There is more support now that I’m working as part of a Partnership team—and I felt that from Day 1. You feel that you are being listened to, that you are part of something bigger than your own classroom and school—and that comes from the top.”

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Expansion When the Partnership expanded to Cleveland in 2020, our two schools served 331 students. Now, Partnership Cleveland serves more than 1,100: St. Thomas Aquinas and Archbishop Lyke have grown, and two new schools—Metro Catholic and St. Francis—have joined our network.

This opportunity to expand our footprint in Cleveland comes at exactly the right time. Last year, fueled by the leadership Catholic schools showed throughout the pandemic, U.S. Catholic school enrollment grew for the first time in more than two decades and experienced the largest increase in more than 50 years.

Sustaining this growth requires intentional, strategic effort—precisely what the Partnership brings to schools. As Regional Superintendent Christian Dallavis explains, we have “a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revitalize Catholic schools that are beacons of hope and have been among Cleveland’s greatest engines of social mobility for over a century.”

Metro Catholic has a history of evolving to continue serving families on Cleveland’s west side, and St. Francis has been a mainstay of the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood since 1887. Both schools remain animated by the spirit of the Sisters of Notre Dame.

“We leverage the strength of each of our school communities,” Kathleen Porter-Magee explains, “and those individual strengths become a force multiplier.”

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COST TO E D U C AT E FY22

NYC

$32,361

P U B L I C S C H O O L N YC

$11,830 PA R T N E R S H I P N YC

Cleveland

$21,238

PUBLIC SCHOOL CLE

$9,155

PA R T N E R S H I P C L E

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Wisely Partnership Schools are committed to doing more with less. The choices we make, then, are crucial for achieving the outcomes we strive for.

When you walk into a Partnership school, you won’t see fancy decor or wall-to-wall technology.

You will see thoughtful instruction by educators who receive ample professional development and sustained, personalized coaching. You’ll see research-backed curriculum.

You will see school cultures that cultivate joy and collaboration by focusing more on shared beliefs than on any elaborate rewards system. And you will see facilities constantly being improved with two simple aims: promoting student learning and honoring the dignity of every child who walks through our doors.

By choosing wisely in our first decade, we have achieved real results—and we maintained student achievement growth even amid the pandemic.

As we expand to serve more students and more schools, the guiding stars of focus, excellence, and support remain as important as ever for stewarding the resources that make our work possible.

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NYC

OT H E R

$15

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

$1,400

PA R E N TA L CONTRIBUTION

$2,145

PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT

$8,270

$11,830

78%

O F O U R O P E RAT I N G B U D G E T W E N T D I R E C T LY T O SUPPORTING STUDENTS

C O S T TO E D U C AT E

Cleveland The Ohio total operating costs were $4.2 million and have a similar distribution of cost to our New York schools. However, the Ohio schools’ income composition differs dramatically because of the Ohio state-funded student scholarship support.

80%

O F O U R O P E RAT I N G B U D G E T W E N T D I R E C T LY T O SUPPORTING STUDENTS

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Our total operating expense for New York City schools was $26.7 million. We funded these costs with student tuition and fees, government support, and philanthropy. Philanthropic support is critical for our mission of providing students with a faith-based education to help them flourish beyond their time at Partnership Schools.

OT H E R I N C O M E PA R E N TA L S U P P O R T

$40 $60

$1,445

OT H E R GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT

$2,595

$5,015 S TAT E SCHOLARSHIPS

$9,155

C O S T TO E D U C AT E

78+18+4A 50+22+271A

Expenses: $26.7M

Income: $26.7M

EXPENSES

INCOME

$20.7M P H I L A N T H R O P I C S U P P O R T $4.8M T U I T I O N & F E E S $1.2M G O V E R N M E N T S U P P O R T & O T H E R

INCOME

$13.3M I N S T R U C T I O N A L & S C H O O L A C T I V I T I E S $7.3M O P E R A T I O N S & F A C I L I T I E S $5.8M A D M I N I S T R A T I O N & D E V E L O P M E N T $0.3M C A P I T A L

We do more with less.

29+52+172A 57+19+5A Income: $4.2M

INCOME

$2.2M S T A T E S C H O L A R S H I P S $1.2M P H I L A N T H R O P I C S U P P O R T $0.7M O T H E R G O V E R N M E N T S U P P O R T $50K O T H E R I N C O M E

Expenses: $4.2M

EXPENSES

$2.4M I N S T R U C T I O N A L & S C H O O L A C T I V I T I E S $0.8M A D M I N I S T R A T I O N & D E V E L O P M E N T $0.8M O P E R A T I O N S & F A C I L I T I E S $0.2M C A P I T A L

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$3.4M

RAISED IN CLEVELAND

79+21P100 100

$16.1

Million TOTA L RA I S E D

23%

INCREASE IN TOTA L G I V I N G IN 1 YEAR

120% INCREASE IN TOTA L G I V I N G IN 5 YEARS

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$12.7M

RA I S E D I N N YC

CHOOSING

Generosity The Partnership’s steadfast supporters have believed deeply in our work from the beginning, and their ongoing investment in our work has paved the way for rigorous education and bright futures.

We have sustained these core relationships in the last decade while also significantly increasing and diversifying our fundraising portfolio.

These existing and new supporters are with us for a reason: they are seeing a strong return on their investment in our results and organizational growth. Because of the ongoing impact they help generate, 78% of our donors over $10,000 continue to support us year after year, beating the national nonprofit retention average of 40%.

As our fundraising needs increase, we know our track record shows that we will continue to do more with less. These funds will be invested wisely, and results from our schools will continue to impress.

Last year we raised more money than ever before—a 23% increase to $16.1M— for the game-changing work our schools do. And we know, with our diverse and committed donor base, we will continue to step up for our families in the years to come.

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AV E RAG E G I F T FROM DONORS OVER $10K

$107K

AV E RAG E G I F T FROM DONORS OVER $10K

$70K

69% INCREASED

CONTRIBUTIONS OR WERE NEW

BETWEEN 2021 AND 2022

257 DONORS

100

Cleveland

100

NYC

76%

INCREASED

CONTRIBUTIONS OR WERE NEW

BETWEEN 2021 AND 2022

98 DONORS 26

N E W YO R K F U N D RA I S I N G F Y17-2 2 $12.7M $12.1M $8.3M

$9.7M

$11.9M

$10.2M

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FY17

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

FY22

TREND LINE SHOWS # OF $100K GIFTS EACH YEAR

502 have supported our 95 philanthropists schools from 2013 through the present TOTA L D O N O R S I N F Y 2 2

A N D S U S TA I N E D O U R N E T WO R K W I T H

$50.8 MILLION I N

FUNDING

41+34+25A

D O N O R D I V E R S I T Y, N Y C & C L E

F O U N DAT I O N S

INDIVIDUALS

DONORS IN FY22

TRUSTEES

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Thank you so much

to our generous supporters in 2021-22. +10 Signifies Annual Contribution since 2013 +5 Signifies Annual Contribution since 2017

TRUSTEES Russell L. Carson, Board Chairman Amy M. Stevens, Board President Donald J. Herdrich, Board Treasurer Jane B. O’Connell, Board Secretary

John Cahill Patricia Chadwick Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli Michael Deegan Most Reverend Timothy Cardinal Dolan Charles Durkin Jr. William Flaherty Amandine Freidheim Brendan Gallagher William Goodloe Peter Grauer Cecilia Greene Karen Hamilton Alicia Hammarskjold Janine Hill Bonnie Himmelman Fr. Joseph LaMorte Helen Lowe Jane Martínez-Dowling Peter Maulik Frank O’Linn Fr. Don Oleksiak Frank Porcelli Thomas Quick Brian Regan William Sales Clémence von Mueffling Nancy Wall Anne Williams-Isom

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SUPPORTERS

$1,000,000 + Anonymous +5 The Carson Family Charitable Trust +10

$250,000 -$999,999 Anonymous (3) +10 Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation Children’s Scholarship Fund Charles P. Durkin Jr. +10 Edward & Joan Steiniger Charitable Foundation +10 Heckscher Foundation for Children Donald and Frances Herdrich +10 Janine and J. Tomilson Hill +10 Inner-City Scholarship Fund +10 Lozick Family Foundation The Buckley Foundation The Drexel Fund The Wilson Sheehan Foundation William E. Simon Foundation, Inc. +10

$1 00,000 - $249,999 Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Center for Education Reform Charles Hayden Foundation Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli and Michael Fascitelli +10 Anthony de Nicola +10 Amandine and Stephen Freidheim +10 Mark Gallogly and Lise Strickler +5 Peter and Laurie Grauer +10 Hyde and Watson Foundation Thomas and Paula McInerney Norma Pace Foundation Thomas C. Quick +10 Brian and Lindsay Regan Riversville Foundation Robin Hood Foundation

James Rowen Paul Shiverick The Clark Foundation The Finneran Family The Francesco & Mary Giambelli Foundation, Inc. John van Rens and Sarah Lutz +10 Clémence and William von Mueffling Nancy and Thomas Wall +5 John and Jeanette Walton

$25,000 -$99,999 Altman Foundation +10 Arthur and Carol Anton Mark and Melanie Biche Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg James and Nancy Buckman +5 Joseph Cassin Michael Castillo Charina Endowment Fund, Inc. Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Mary Deatherage William Flaherty and Carol Kimbark Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust Brendan and Kate Gallagher J. Patrick Gallagher Jr. and Anne M. Gallagher GoldenTree Asset Management Amy and Sidney Goodfriend John and Kiendl Gordon Gray Foundation Cecilia Greene and Paul Verbinnen +10 Alicia and Philip Hammarskjold Gregory and Sarita Hanley +10 Thomas Healey Roger and Susan Hertog Laurie and David Hodgson +5 Bruce and Debbie Jarosz Scott Jeckering Tom Jeckering Mrs. Susan B. Karches

Angela and Madeleine Kissane Ray and Patty Laubenthal Daniel and Bonnie Leonard Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Family Foundation Peter Smith and Linda Mahoney +10 Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation Raymond and Katie Murphy New York Catholic Foundation, Inc. Frank Nickell and Carol Hertling +5 Laura and John Overdeck Andrew and Susan Passen Joseph and Susan Plumeri Joseph Reich/Pumpkin Trust +10 Robert and Perri Bishop Foundation Chuck and Deborah Royce William and Suzanne Sales +10 Christopher and Francesca Santomero Lois Severini and Enrique Gittes +5 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Smith Pat and Nancy Sullivan The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation

The Richard and Susan Braddock Family Foundation, Inc. The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation The Shubert Organization +10 Uncle Larry’s Fund

$1 0,000 -$24,999 Anonymous (2) Amb. Daniele Bodini +5 Patricia W. Chadwick Church of the Resurrection Kee Colen and Laura Picard +10 Daniel and Kathleen Denihan +5 Daniels Family Foundation Patrick and Mary Donaghy J.W. Sean Dorsey Umberto Fedeli Brigid Flanagan +5 Robert and Linda Foran +5 Daniel and Dede Geib George M. and Pamela S. Humphrey Fund Giant Eagle Corporation

J. Kevin and Mary Ellen Gilgan +5 Carla Harris +10 Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Bonnie Himmelman +10 HG Real Estate Solutions Michael and Jane Horvitz Inherent Foundation Jack and Lillian Poses Foundation Patrick and Diane Kelly Bill and Pat Kurzenberger Paul and Danielle Klyap John Lindenthal and Mary Orechovsky +5 Bill and Joyce Litzler Helen T. Lowe +10 Meredith and Joseph Manning John P. McCormick Charles Moore Peter Murphy and Rose Haggerty Jack and Marsha Myslenski Margo and James L. Nederlander John and Margaret O’Brien Nancy Zink O’Connor Ohio Boys Town Mike and Trina Overlock +10 Peter B. and Adeline W. Ruffin Foundation Frank and Madeline Porcelli Michael Quilty +5 Bill Reilly and Dianne Brock Richman Brothers Foundation Robert Mize and Isa White Trimble Family Foundation Stephen Ross Ximena Sandell Priscilla Schmeelk +10 Cynthia and Thomas Sculco Melanie and Joseph Shugart Sisters of Reparation Charitable Trust The Nock Family The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation Edward Welsh

$2,000 -$9,999 Amica Companies Foundation Judy Hart Angelo +10 Scott Baranowski +5 Michael Baumann Constance Birkelund +10 James Breen Mary Jane Breen Kelly Bookmyer +5

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Joseph and Hilary Califano +5 Nicole and Andrew Cardone Carl and Suzanne Chiappa Mario C. Ciano Rosemary Conlon +5 Daniel and Eorann Conway Corpus Christi School Edward Crawford Bobby Cremins +5 John Curran Esther DeDeo Daniel Denihan, Jr. Sean Denihan William and Tara Dougherty John D. Draghi Richard Ellison William Goodloe Peter M. Gottsegen Robert Griffin +10 Hanna Family Michael Hegarty Paul Hilal Kate Howe Timothy Hyland Denise Kelly Maureen Sherry Klinsky Steve Kusik Eric Lee

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Jun Makihara and Mimi Oka (Makioka Foundation) David Mancato Michelle Manolis Joseph Melone Mary Kate and Ryan Miller Timothy Moran Morgan Stanley Sarah Nash Nelnet Sales Co. NYAC Athlete’s Fund +10 Robert O’Brien Jane O’Connell +10 Robert and Claire Patterson Kim Parker Thomas and Ann Piper +10 Mike Pontano Mr. and Mrs. William B. Porter Thomas Pretlow

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Quick III Rao’s Specialty Foods Anthony and Mary Rego David S. Richards Mark and Cindy Ross Andrew Schmeelk Matthew Schmeelk Michael and Molly Schroeder Speedeon Data Frank and Mary Stanley +10 Marnell and Richard Stover +5 James and Rita Sullivan The Clarence Westbury Foundation The Robertson Foundation Donald Toumey +5 Dr. Frank Vecchio & Helen Williams Vecchio Foundation Lynn Freidheim Waunford-Brown We Energies Foundation Charles S. Whelan, Jr. Cynthia Whitehead

Andrew Wilshire Margaret and Erwin Zeuschner +5

$1,000-$1,999 Alp Akbalshi Thomas August Steve Berger Freddie and Annegret Botur Bruno Casolari Phillip and Amy Ciano Stephen and Deborah Cooke Kathryn Crimmins Pasquale Cuomo +5 Gerard Daher Meg DeGulis Charles Durkin III +5 Mary Lou Durkin Jose W. Fernandez Tom Giordano Thomas Hartfield Lars and Gay Henriksen Irvin Saltzman Family Foundation J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Foundation Tom and Ann Johnson Jason and Maria Jurgens Diana Jacobs Kalman

Kevin Kavanagh Dan Kiernan Marianne Kraft Bobby Kreusler Erica Kulhmann Lake Family Foundation Lisa Lawler +5 Pamela Lund, in remembrance of Connie and Lavere Lund Richard and Melissa Martin William McNamara +5 Mary Jeanne and Matthew Miller Mary Barrett Moran– 1954 Graduate, St. Athanasius Ann Zoller and John Mueller PK Murphy Kenneth Nolan Loretta and Kevin O’Reilly Petri Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Felix Petrillo Craig Pisani Thomas Richards and Ashley Magargee +5 Mr. Patrick Rooney Jr. and Mr. Patrick Rooney Sr. Jayne Schmeelk Sisters of Christian Charity Janet Rosel Smith and Mark Smith

Zachary Smith George Soos Brian Spear Pauline St. John Ryan & Molly Stefan Amy Stevens +10 The Raymond L Golden Family Foundation Inc. The Scully Family Foundation Bob Vilsack Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide William Weisberg Matt and Kelly Whipple Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Wilson, III Michael J. Yorio +5 Roy Zuckerberg and Tara Kelleher

Chris Wilson and Lorraine Sheehan Wilson Seeing great leadership and great ideas impresses us to invest, and in its first decade, the Partnership have proved themselves to be a team of great leaders with great ideas we believe should be expanded and replicated.

We’re in favor of all sorts of educational choice, so the work that the Partnership does aligns with our mission. We celebrate whenever a school succeeds, and a Partnership education succeeds on more than one level. Beyond excellent academics, they provide faith, morals, and spirituality that help instill in students that their lives are meaningful and have so much purpose. It is also wonderful to see how they encourage family involvement and buy-in.

We are in full support of their strategy to continue expanding their impact in Cleveland and New York, along with their plan to spread their methods nationally and help other schools do better. There is much work still to do to ensure that urban schools provide students the whole education they need to flourish. We know Partnership Schools have proved that they can do just that.

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I don’t need any more evidence that Partnership Schools are doing a good job, but if I did, all I have to do is look around today.

CA R D I N A L T I M OT H Y D O L A N

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“Why I think I fit in with Partnership is that we have a culture of abundance. God loves us.

He wants us to be happy and successful and have a school that’s running great…If God is for us, who can be against us?”

Rich Clark 1951-2022

Rich Clark, Founding Director of Partnership Schools in Cleveland, has left a remarkable legacy to us: the schools and thousands of students we will serve for decades to come thanks to his efforts. But he has given us far more. Rich believed that God is good, and that we know God when we spread goodness. His infectious faith and zeal inspire us every day.

May almighty God receive Rich joyfully and inspire us with Rich’s hope and strength.

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The support we receive has fueled game-changing results in our first decade— and can help us prove what’s possible in the next.

RUSS CARSON, BOARD CHAIR

For more information about what’s to come or ways to support our schools, please contact: Jill Kafka, Executive Director at 646.794.3338 or jill.kafka@thepartnershipschools.org

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