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Capital Campaign Update
In the fall of 2019, Jackson Prep embarked on a feasibility study to determine the success of another capital campaign. Interviews were conducted and an email survey was sent. The rate of response was exceptionally high and the feedback extremely positive. The Board of Trustees voted to engage campaign counsel and move forward with Jackson Prep’s fifth capital campaign - YOUR JACKSON PREP CAMPAIGN. The original goal for the campaign was $7.5 million, a very ambitious number. The campaign focused on four elements - doubling the school’s endowment, renovating the old junior high building, establishing an institute for innovation and creativity, and athletic improvements such as fully turfing the baseball field and renovating the Manning Center by adding air conditioning and new flooring.
by Crisler Boone Chief External Affairs Officer Class of 1984
We experienced immediate success as we began visiting with donors in the fall of 2019 and winter of 2020. Our momentum was cut short in March 2020 when COVID-19 spread across the world and our country. Campaign activities picked back up in the fall of 2020, and we experienced unprecedented success. During the 2020-2021 school year, we received our three largest donations in school history. With two gifts of $1 million and one of $1.5 million, we have been truly blessed by these donors’ prodigious generosity. A simple thank you seems inadequate given the amount of support, but we trust that knowing how much our Prep students will benefit from these gifts offers some sense of our appreciation. Even with the onset of a worldwide pandemic and recovery from its residual financial stress, support for this campaign continues to be monumental. At $9.5 million, we have surpassed our initial goal of $7.5 million and are close to reaching our stretch goal of $10 million. Please help us continue the forward momentum. If you wish to support YOUR JACKSON PREP Capital Campaign, scan the Donate Now QR Code.