SUPPORT COVENANT DAY SCHOOL
Gifts of Time, Talent and Treasure
The most powerful partnership at Covenant Day School is the crucial alliance between parents, friends, and our school, working together for the good of each child. This is a mutual commitment that requires everyone to contribute in whatever way and measure they are able. An excellent Christian school like ours depends on the generosity of parents and friends of CDS to volunteer their time and expertise, to participate in school life, and to support us financially.
Gifts are necessary because tuition gives your child access to more than parents are paying for. At CDS, tuition covers a portion but not the full cost of educating your child. In a way, every student at our school receives financial support. That is why we need to raise annual funds, build endowments, and financial aid programs, and conduct capital drives.
A school’s special resources increase the budget – to attract and retain the very best teachers, keep class sizes and student-teacher ratios down, to make the school affordable and accessible to qualified students, to insure that our facilities provide exceptional learning environments, and to support all our curricular and extracurricular programs. Unlike a for-profit business whose mission is to make money, our mission is to provide a superior Christian education. Today, that is an expensive enterprise, but one with a huge return on investment!
In short, your financial support preserves the very special Christian education you sought when you chose Covenant Day School – freedom from secular thinking and teaching, freedom from mediocrity and lack of rigor, freedom to worship God in all we do, to pursue excellence for God’s glory, and to participate in the spiritual lives and education of your children.
SUMMARY: 2009-10 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN Response to the campaign this past year was extremely generous! We are deeply grateful to all those who got involved. THANK YOU!
Total Commitment: $1,402,404
Total Received (by year end): $1,095,339
CDS Fine Arts Fund & CAST: $41,798 used to build a storage building for drama props and equipment, to send a teacher to NYC for training, and enhance the stage area in the Harbor
Classroom Enhancements: $35,660 for more Smart Boards. We also further reduced the mortgage on the high school thanks to several gifts
Financial Aid: $181,149; $84,783 for this year while $96,365 more was donor-designated to endowments to provide revenue for aid for years to come
Missions: students raised $33,752 for high school mission trips to Haiti, $8,571 more for disaster relief, and held Penny Wars to bless others
Fun Run: $30,341 for Warner Park, Financial Aid & Haiti!
Warner Park: $425,176 was received for new field construction and $232,300 more in pledges for Phase I; $9,006 was designated to the Sports Fund and the Booster Club raised $75,456 more for their $200k pledge to the project
Permitting for expanded development at Warner Park is nearing completion and bids for construction have been received. Work using funds in-hand may begin as soon as bids and contractors are selected and all permits are received. A beautiful new front gate and improved entry are already in place so stop by and check things out at Warner Park!
THANK YOU BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR 100% PARTICIPATION from both last year’s and current board members to Warner Park! Your combined giving has raised over $85k in which $60k is part of our cash on hand! WAY TO LEAD THE WAY!!
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CASH
Gifts of cash are the most common form of support to CDS. Checks should be made payable to Covenant Day School and sent directly to:
ATTN: Support
Covenant Day School
800 Fullwood Lane
Matthews, NC 28105
PLEDGES
Depending on the size of the gift, pledges of 3-5 years for capital campaigns and to create/build endowments are welcome as well as multiple gifts to the Annual Campaign.
EFT (Electronic Fund Transfers)
This is the easiest way to support Covenant Day School. By simply filling out a one page form you control a monthly transfer to CDS each month. Your EFT gift will then transfer out of the account you set to CDS in the exact amount you specify on the 6th of each month. You do not need to do anything else and will receive gift confirmations and an annual tax receipt for all gifts.
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