Buckingham Browne & Nichols

October2007

Giving Update

Lower School Grandfriends Day Is Coming!

WHAT: Lower School Grandfriends Day 

WHO:  All Lower School students and their invited grandfriend(s)

WHEN:  Wednesday, November 21 from 8:15AM-12PM

WHERE:  Lower School campus, 10 Buckingham Street, Cambridge

WHY:  To offer an opportunity to all Lower School children to share a condensed version of their BB&N daily experience with their special grandfriend(s) AND to provide a day for grandfriends to embrace the BB&N experience through the eyes of their young host, faculty, and specialists who will lead the day's events.       

HOW:  Notify your grandfriend(s) and ask them to save the date for Wednesday, November 21!

For more information, contact Jo-Ann Lovejoy, director of annual giving, at 617-800-2723 or jo-ann_lovejoy@bbns.org.

Senior Parents' and Senior Class Gift Campaigns Kick Off

2008 Senior Parents’ Gift co-chairs Marie and Mark Schwartz and Chris and Dick Wood launched this year’s Senior Parents’ Gift Campaign at the Senior Kick-Off Dinner on September 17. They introduced the committee members who will speak with other parents this fall about the class gift, and reported the results of the ballot to determine the designation of that gift.  With the votes all counted, it has been decided that the 2008 class gift will support faculty compensation and professional development endowment.

As Chris Wood noted in her remarks, “We all know that it is the quality of teaching that makes a school great, and the designation of our gift sends a powerful message to our faculty that we value and support their work on our children’s behalf.”

Senior Class Gift co-chairs Carly Schuster and Eric Schwartz also kicked off their fund-raising campaign at the dinner and announced that their committee is currently in formation. Seniors approach classmates to contribute to their own class gift which supports an area of the Annual Fund of their choosing.

For more information about the Opening Minds Campaign, contact Janet Rosen.

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Senior class gift committee co-chairs Carly Schuster and Eric Schwartz address their peers and parents.

Opening Minds Campaign numbers

  1. $62 million Opening Minds Campaign Goal
  2. $26 million Endowment goal
    (faculty, financial aid, and unrestricted endowment)
  3. $26 million Building and Renovation
    Project goal
  4. $10 millionAnnual Fund goal
  5. $46.4 million Funds raised as of 6/30/07
  6. 75%Percentage of progress toward overall campaign goal