By Karen Lewis Taylor
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Embrace Possibility The Campaign for Ravenscroft
FIVE YEARS THAT GREW OUR ENDOWMENT AND POSITIONED US FOR THE FUTURE IN 2012, Ravenscroft’s Board of Trustees voted on a new, five-year strategic design that set
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the stage for the school’s largest and most comprehensive campaign. By the time the campaign was announced to the full Ravenscroft community, in the Winter 2014 Report on Giving, several early contributors had already given generously to put Embrace Possibility, the Campaign for Ravenscroft well on the path to success.
Following their lead, hundreds of philanthropically minded parents, grandparents, current and former faculty and staff, students and alumni made gifts and pledges in support of growing our endowment — from $16.5M at the start of the campaign in July 2013 to $20.9M at the campaign’s close in June 2018 — and funding four key areas: LEAD FROM HERE, FINANCIAL AID (“BELONG HERE”), STUDENT SUPPORT (“SUCCEED HERE”) and the ANNUAL FUND.
Here are some of the highlights of Ravenscroft’s most successful campaign to date. Be sure to check out our web extras at www.ravenscroft.org/wintermagazine2018 to enjoy Embrace Possibility stories from past issues of Ravenscroft magazine.
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Substantial gifts from CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP including co-chairs Jenny and Charles Winston ’78 and Easter Maynard ’89, honorary co-chairs Fran and Watson Pugh ’38, and honorary committee members Judy and Chip Anderson ’55 and family create momentum during the “quiet phase” of the campaign.
Ravenscroft’s PA establishes the Parents’ Association Embrace Possibility Fund, pledging $600K to support all four areas of the campaign.
The PA’s 2015 Fall Roundup
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Report on Giving 2018
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