The Country School
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.

Message from Leadership

  • John Fixx John Fixx
    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 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

Capital Funds

Makerspaces & Maintenance Facility

Endowment Funds

Established in 1962 by parent donors and the Board of Trustees, ​​our endowment secures The Country School’s future for the generations of students and educators yet to join our school. “Until now, we did not quite have the courage to put money where it could not be touched.” (Board Chairman Clarissa V. Dundon, 1963.)  
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. 
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.

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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