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Giving Update

2009-2010 Annual Fund Reaches 49% of $2.25 Million Goal!

The end of the calendar year is nearly upon us!
You can click here now to make your
year-end pledge or gift online:
www.bbns.org/donate

With an enthusiastic team of volunteers in place, the Annual Fund has gotten off to an excellent start, having raised $1,092,259, which is 49 percent of the 2009-2010 goal, in combined gifts and pledges as of November 30th.

The Annual Fund is BB&N’s annual fund-raising program with a goal of raising those funds necessary to bridge the “gap” in the operating budget created between tuition, and the actual cost of a BB&N education. This year, the “gap” per student is $6,680.

All gifts of all amounts are of critical value and necessary if we are to achieve our financial and participation goals. The Annual Fund underlies all independent education and is necessary to sustain the program of excellence that has come to define BB&N. The Annual Fund supports arts, athletics, academic programs, financial aid, faculty professional development, and technology.

The BB&N community of parents, alumni/ae, past parents, grandparents, faculty, staff, current seniors, and friends all play a significant role each year in helping to achieve this critical and necessary goal. Parent volunteers are currently in the process of reaching out to every family in our community in hopes of obtaining support and the goal of 100% participation.

We are extraordinarily grateful for the early and enthusiastic Annual Fund support BB&N has received to date. Alumni/ae class agents reach out to their classmates through letters and emails. Past parents and grandparents share their enthusiasm for the experiences of their children and grandchildren through personal letters. Faculty and staff continue to give back to BB&N and may take advantage of our employee Annual Fund payroll deduction and automatic renewal program. Each year, the Senior class votes to direct their Annual Fund Class Gift and sets an early goal to achieve before graduation. We also continue to have the long-term support of friends of the BB&N community who believe in our mission and have elected to make BB&N a giving priority each year.

We invite your participation in this year’s Annual Fund. Your early gift or pledge will provide additional savings to BB&N by limiting the amount of contacts necessary to reach our goal by April 30, 2010. Thank you very much for your thoughtful consideration.

You may give online at www.bbns.org/donate. Please contact Jo-Ann Lovejoy, Director of Annual Giving at 617-800-2723 or email
jo-ann_lovejoy@bbns.org for further information, questions about giving, or to learn about ways in which you may become involved as an Annual Fund volunteer.

You may also contact one of our Parent Fund Co-Chairs for further information: Lower School, Gina Foote, P’22,’17 ; Middle School, Barbara Southcote, P’13,’14; Upper School, Amy Sassoon, P’11,’09.

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Letter from Endowed Chair Donor

As we reported in the last issue of The Link, two endowed master teacher chairs and one endowed instructorship have been established at BB&N this year. We invite you to click here to read a letter from the anonymous donor of one of these endowed positions: the Founding Paideia Master Teacher Chair.

Also, be sure to check out the Upper School and Middle School Campus Voice pages in this issue of The Link to read the remarks of chair recipients Rob Leith and Margaret Hardy.