Our Next Dream: A CUTTING-EDGE,
Visionary People Coming Together To Build A Better Future For Others Our Next Dream: A Cutting-Edge, 5-Story Innovation Center
Our 85 -Year Story
Colegio Nueva Granada’s story has always been one of continual innovation and progressive thinking - a long year history of visionary people coming together and building a better future for others. We have 85 years of stories that have one thing in common: they began with dreams. Those dreams followed by action have made the seemingly impossible become possible at CNG.
This spirit continues to drive us forward in our quest to provide students with a 21st-century education based on a holistic approach focused on mind, body, and character.
We have accomplished great dreams for more than eight decades, but we believe greater dreams still lie ahead. With a set of Boardapproved priorities that are aligned with our Vision statement, “Educating the Mind, Strengthening the Body, and Developing Character for Leadership and Service in the World of Today for a Better Tomorrow,” we are committed to creating a bold plan to Build CNG’s Future - a plan to achieve a profound educational and physical transformation at CNG. We invite you to join us as we build an even stronger CNG, one that will generate inspiring and transforming stories for generations to come.
Our first group of donors made CNG possible. Shell Petroleum Company, Tropical Oil Company, Bank of London, and The Royal Bank of Canada, amongst others, made the impossible become possible. You too can help us build a better CNG.
Share our dreams and our vision, and help us start “Building CNG’s Future” TODAY!
“BUILDING CNG’S FUTURE” CAMPAIGN
The “Building CNG’s Future” Campaign is a precedent-setting comprehensive capital campaign that offers numerous opportunities to participate in creating a transforming and lasting legacy for our students, faculty, alumni, and school families. Our project and plan lay out a set of bold priorities to ensure that CNG remains at the forefront of innovative education in Colombia and across Latin America.
THE CAMPAIGN IN NUMBERS
WHY DO WE NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES?
CNG’s annual tuition only covers operational costs, and the Ministry of Education caps annual increases.
Every 100 pesos received in tuition is spent in the following way:
Why do we need to raise funds? Find out!
TODAY FUND
PROJECT 1: PROJECT 1:
The
PROJECT 2: PROJECT 2:
PROJECT 3: PROJECT 3:
TODAY FUND
CNG’S TODAY fund has focused on our most immediate and important needs. We centered on safety, 21st-century space requirements, and infrastructure.
Total Cost:
The cost for the 3 projects is:
$14.9
MILLION
Cost of The Bridge:
$ 1.8 million USD BUILT!
Cost of The Cafetorium:
$ 4.6 million USD BUILT!
Cost of The Innovation Center:
$ 8.5 million USD OUR NEX DREAM!
We’ve already built the first 2 projects! We need your help to build our 3rd project!!
Our Goal: to raise
$7.0
MILLION USD USD Meet Esteban... Support the Dream!
PROJECT 1: PROJECT 1:
The Bridge
CIRCUNVALAR BRIDGE: SECURITY FIRST
Our Challenge:
SAFETY & SECURITY
MORE THAN
1,000 & 400
STUDENTS
PARENTS & STAFF
entered CNG through the main gate, crossing the Avenida Circunvalar, a high – speed busy road. Safety is a priority at CNG, and the bridge was an urgent and immediate concern that CNG addressed.
Our Dream, and Now Reality: CNG built a that provides safe passage across the Circunvalar and offers elevators for enhanced accessibility.
MODERN BRIDGE
PROJECT 2 PROJECT 2:
A 21st-Century, Multi-Purpose Cafetorium
Our Challenge: OUR FORMER
CAFETERIA
CNG had to schedule the entire academic program around the cafeteria schedule.
Our Dream, and Now Reality: A 21 ST -CENTURY, MULTI-PURPOSE CAFETORIUM
WE ENVISIONED AN EXPANDED
1,691 m2
two-level, dynamic, colorful, multi-purpose cafetorium
THE PREVIOUS CAFETERIA SERVED LUNCHES DAILY TO
1,300
INDOOR SEATS
66 TERRACE SEATS
420 SEATS 1st Level 2nd Level
780 in a time span of more than 3 hours. The first lunch was served at 10:40 A.M. and the last at 2:00 P.M.
426 SEATS (66 ON TERRACE)
600 STAFF MEMBERS STUDENTS & Meet Angélica... She’s thankful for the support!
We dreamt it, and it’s now a reality!
We dreamt it, and it’s now a reality!
Full House!
PROJECT 3 PROJECT 3:
OUR NEXT DREAM: A Cutting-Edge, 5-Story Innovation Center
Our Challenge: LEARNING SPACE LIMITATIONS
To advance our Visionary Future, we need more room for Design Thinking, Project-Based Learning, and STEM across all grade levels.
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION AT CNG IS NOW!
Additional space will support 21stCentury skill building – innovation, creativity, collaboration, problem solving, communication, and critical thinking.
Our Dream: A CUTTING-EDGE, 5-STORY INNOVATION CENTER (5.450 sq. meters)
WE ENVISION A MULTI-FLOORED, STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPLEX FOR LEARNING, EXPLORING, IDEATING, CREATING, AND DREAMING.
5-story building with flex spaces and an industrial open design
MakerSpaces for all grades Science & Technology and STEM labs
Classrooms and collaboration spaces Terraces for open-air meetings and special events
WE’RE INSPIRED BY SOME OF THE BEST INNOVATION CENTERS
California State University
Stanford Design School
MIT Design Lab
Nueva School
Fessenden Innovation Center
Our NextDream...
We need you! Every Peso Counts!
How much money have we raised? Momentum has been building!
This is our progress to date: million Our Goal: To Raise USD $7.0 million Money raised so far: USD $1.8 Every Peso Counts!
WE’RE SEEKING DREAMERS, DOERS, MAKERS! WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!
Building CNG’s Future Together
We invite you to share in our vision and our dreams. Your foresight and generosity will help educate and develop a generation of students who will be tomorrow’s leaders and contributors in creating a better world for all. In order to generate this impact, we as a CNG Community must invest in our people, our programs, our values, and our future. Your gift will create a lasting legacy for current and future generations at CNG.
We invite you to join us as we continue to build on the legacy of our founders who believed in the power of visionary people coming together and building a better future for others.
Please consider supporting the “Building CNG’s Future” Campaign in any way you can; each and every gift makes a difference! No gift is too small.
THANK YOU
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Making the impossible become possible
We want to thank a group of leaders who are already sharing our vision and dreams for “Building CNG’s Future”, thanks to their generosity:
• Sara, Annabelle, Aria and Martina Carrizosa
• Cortés Families
• DISMEC SA
• Díaz Santoro Family
• Gabriel Echavarria and Family
• Escobar Families
• Fernando Jaramillo and Family
• Roberto Moreno and Family
• Grupo Colpatria and Pacheco Family
• Murra Pardo Families
• Antonio Puerto and Family
• Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutiérrez and Family
• Harry Sasson and Family
• Carlos Andrés Uribe and Family
• Eduardo Zarate and Family
Thank you for joining us as we continue to build on the legacy of our founders who believed in the power of visionary people coming together and building a better future for others.
If you wish to join this group of visionary leaders and legacy families and contribute to the the “Building CNG’s Future” Campaign, please contact:
Diana Colmenares Vélez Director of Development and Community Relations dcolmenares@cng.edu, 2123511 ext. 104 + 57 (310) 7791978 www.giving.cng.edu
For more information please contact: Diana Colmenares Vélez Director of Development & Community Relations dcolmenares@cng.edu 212 35 11 Ext. 104 +57 (310) 7791978
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