Annual Fund
The Annual Fund is the foundation of Emerson’s fundraising program. The term “annual gifts” refers to the contributions you and your fellow Emerson parents make in support of the school’s operating budget. The financial health of the entire school depends on these gifts. Because every year brings new challenges and new opportunities, we hope that all parents will become annual donors to Emerson. What matters most is your participation: each gift, no matter the size, makes an impact.
Gifts made by past donors to the Annual Fund are directly contributing to your child’s Emerson experience today. Our supporters have made a commitment to the future, enabling us to meet new challenges and seize new opportunities as they arise—sustaining our outstanding academic, athletic and arts programs as well as funding maintenance, faculty salaries and professional development.
Annual Fund Gifts Make a Difference
When you give to the Annual Fund, you help Emerson implement many school improvements. Recently we were able to:
- Provide much needed financial aid;
- Fund the empowering F.A.S.T. reading program;
- Add 20 more laptops to the Middle School, 20 netbooks to the Lower School, and equip five classrooms with new amplification systems;
- Completely renovate the lower school science room with new cabinets, countertops and bookshelves; paint and install new carpeting in the lower school specials wing; remodel the middle school student bathrooms; and add new cabinets to the middle school art room;
- Send 18 faculty to a variety of University Musical Society workshops including: Exploring Latin American Culture Through Folktales, Native American Culture Immersion, Arts Integration in the Classroom, and American Roots Music.
Annual Fund Challenge propels Parent Participation
As we approached the end of the 2010-11 fiscal year, a core of dedicated parents and trustees stepped to the plate to offer our parent community a challenge: If you have not yet given to the Annual Fund this fiscal year, we will match any gift given by June 30th, up to $50. Our primary goal with this challenge was to increase our parent participation. It was a grand success! This year we surpassed all previous years on record with 62% of our current parents making a donation. This represents an increase of more than 20% over the last five years. By any measure, this growth is truly impressive and a wonderful vote of confidence by our families.
We extend a very special thank you to our Challenge Donors:
Chris and Lesli Ballard, Allen and Whitney Bruce, Aaron and Michelle Crumm, Carol Knight-Drain and Scott Drain, Kathy and Tim Laing, Paul and Molly Lanzon , Mark and Jen Pinto, Mike Rucinski and Marianne Wilczak, Gerry and Colleen Spencer, Doug and Julie Stotlar, Susan Torrible
How to a make a gift?
- Online: click here to make a donation from the Emerson website.
- By check: make your check payable to Emerson School and return to Sue Johnson’s attention.
- By phone: call Sue Johnson with credit card information.
Please contact Sue Johnson with any questions at sjohnson@emerson-school.org , (734) 665-5662 x 312, or stop by the office for a visit.