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Comprehensive Campaign

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Why a Comprehensive Campaign?

We embarked years ago on a multi-year endeavor to expand the financial health and campus effectiveness of The Country School, with the same ambition as the generations who built the campus where our community thrives today. This Talent Within Comprehensive Campaign has a physical plant component while the school also secures its financial future by building endowment.

Dear Country School Friends and Families,

Last year was a year of record giving at Country School. We raised $1.3 million in a single year! Thank you.

We are now in the final year of The Talent Within Comprehensive Campaign. Since July 1, 2021, we have raised $4.6 million, including $1.8 million toward the Makerspaces and Engineering Facility, our first new building in 30 years.

With the building completed and students fully immersed in the space and its offerings, our focus now turns to endowment. Endowment is what lets this school outlast any one generation of parents. It is the quiet gift that keeps paying forward long after our own children have graduated.

None of this replaces the Annual Fund. Every year, regardless of what else is happening, we need to meet our Annual Fund goal. That fund is what keeps the lights on and the teachers in the classroom today.

Thirty years ago, I rode my bike to school because we could only afford one car. We still found a way to give to the campaign that built Blatchford. I think of that often when I walk past the donor names on that building now.

If you want to talk about where your interest meets the school's needs, whether that's endowment, the Annual Fund, or something else, I'd like to hear from you.

With best wishes,

John D. Fixx P ’06
Head of School
A gift to the endowment is a gift that secures the long-term health of The Country School forever. Endowed gifts serve as powerful tools, benefiting the short- and long-term stability and growth of our students and faculty.

Building for the Long Term

This is the final year of The Talent Within Comprehensive Campaign. Thanks to the generosity of this community, that campaign has already accomplished a great deal. The new Student Makerspaces and Engineering Facility now stand on campus, built and in use.

But the work is not finished. Country School will continue raising funds, beyond the usual Annual Fund, through July 1, 2027 — with a focus now turning to the endowment.

The overall endowment is a family of funds that has been created over generations by families, staff, students, and friends of The Country School. Together, these funds support all aspects of the school, including programming, staff recruitment, and financial aid. 

The goal is $1.5 to 2 million donated or pledged toward the endowment by June 30, 2027. Campaign giving to date stands at $7 million, a reflection of how deeply this community understands what the school's future requires.

An endowment works quietly. Country School invests what is given and spends only a small share of the returns each year, allowing the rest to keep growing. Over time, that discipline turns gifts made today into support that lasts for generations, funding financial aid, retaining excellent faculty, and maintaining the campus, so that tuition alone never has to carry the full weight.

The benefits reach far beyond any single year. Financial aid opens the door to talented students, regardless of what their families can afford. A strong endowment steadies the school's budget through economic downturns and enrollment shifts. It allows Country School to compete for outstanding teachers and to invest in the technology, facilities, and programs that tuition dollars alone cannot fund.

Every gift to the endowment builds toward a school that will be here, strong, for a very long time.

Capital Funds

STEAM Center

Annual Fund

The Country School Fund

Country School counts on $300,000 in donations every year to support the Annual Fund.  These funds for operational expenses preserve the strong educational program for students and help maintain a balanced budget. 
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