MB Believes A CAMPAIGN FOR LEARNING, PEOPLE, AND PLACE
I have never believed more in an educational community than I do in Moses Brown. With MB Believes, we are doing something transformative, preserving a 231-year-old tradition of excellence and aspiring toward a future in which every student discovers her passion, hones his talents, and brings those gifts to the world. This is the challenging and deeply rewarding work we do at MB.
Matt Glendinning, Head of School
Learning
Moses Brown sparks a hunger for learning, nurtures it with breadth and rigor, and fosters a lifetime habit of inquiry and reflection.
Expert Thin In a world where knowledge is growing at a rapid pace, tomorrow’s leaders need to be experts at using available information rather than merely memorizing facts. The Expert Thinking Model teaches children to integrate skills, apply knowledge, and work in teams to solve real-world problems.
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In order to accelerate this kind of applied learning across the school, MB seeks endowed funding for a program in Engineering & Design Learning, and for the systematic use of Project-Based Learning in each division.
Expert Thinking Model It’s happening! “It drives the kids crazy,” says middle school teacher Dan Ohl with a wicked grin, when speaking of project-based learning (PBL).This longtime faculty member, who recently completed the Friends Council on Education’s two-year leadership development program, embraces PBL in his classroom. “PBL asks students to use classroom skills to solve real-world questions,” he explains. Students don’t receive an assignment; they design it. “At first, they want me to tell them what to do,” he laughs, “but before they know it, they find they like building the process, and they’re even prouder of the result.” When it was time to introduce the Pythagorean Theorem, Dan withheld the well-known formula (a2+b2=c2), instead challenging students to discover it on their own. They could use any resource, with one exception: a teacher could not ‘teach’ them. Students raced to the Three Oaks Woodshop; others searched online woodworking forums. One phoned an uncle who worked construction and before long was explaining the time-tested carpenter’s ‘3-4-5’ rule to her peers. Using their new knowledge, students were soon creating right angles on the floor with lengths of wood. The resulting discussion of Pythagorean primitive triples held deeper and more lasting understanding for each individual. “With PBL, students stretch outside their comfort zone and wrestle with difficult questions with no clear answers,” Dan says. “I’m inspired by the skills and confidence they gain.”
– Dan Ohl middle school math
Supported by a lead endowment gift of $500,000, MB is creating a school-wide program in Engineering & Design Learning, including: • Dr. Laurie Center’s appointment as MB’s first Director of STEM Education. • New courses, activities, clubs, and competitions such as: Engineering Design; Tinker, Tailor, Maker; Design, Program & Build; robotics; Camp Invention; DownCity Design summer program; and math clubs in each division. • A coding and computer science track in all three divisions featuring: littleBits, Scratch, Arduino and Python programming. • New capstone projects such as the fifth grade Math Arcade and eighth grade Rube Goldberg Machines.
Other gifts are supporting the school-wide adoption of Project-Based Learning, a method that uses driving questions to teach factual content and its application to novel situations and problems: • How could we promote better understanding and harmony among the world’s major religions? Fourth graders worked in teams to research and design an interfaith center that embodies the beliefs and practices of five different faiths. • If you had just a single day in Boston, could you tell the story of American history? Seventh grade history students designed walking tours to answer this challenge, then chose the four best proposals to implement during a day trip with the whole grade. • How could we stop child labor and trafficking in Vietnam? Students in ninth grade World History tackled this subject in partnership with a nonprofit called Blue Dragon, including advocacy with UNICEF.
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Endowment gifts to the Expert Thinking Model fund a new program in Engineering & Design Learning to encourage students’ creativity and confidence with computational thinking, quantitative analysis, and scientific reasoning. Funding also supports the purchase and maintenance of computer software and materials for designing and prototyping, as well as the school-wide adoption of Project-Based Learning.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Raise $1.5 million in endowment $1 million in endowment develops a series of courses and units of study in all three divisions that
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TRIPs – Travel, Research, and Immersion Programs – foster a rising generation of civic-minded, multilingual, and ethical global citizens. New courses and a broad array of travel opportunities help students explore cultures, life experiences, and worldviews different from their own, while a marine education program allows students to investigate the ecology and resources of Narragansett Bay.
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Because these educational experiences are so transformative, we believe they need to be a critical part of a Moses Brown education for every student, regardless of financial circumstances. To that end, we are asking donors to help us endow this important aspect of our curriculum.
TRIPs It’s happening! Going to Kenya was incredible. It was my first time out of the country. It definitely opened my eyes to being in a different culture and what can happen there, how people interact differently. The people were so happy to see us. I remember our bus pulling over in front of a school – it seemed like a thousand kids came out to see our bus and say hello with the biggest smiles on their faces.We just kept repeating “rafiki” (friend).
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We tried to do meaningful work while there – painting walls and windows and fixing the school’s cement floors. Going on trips like this has made me think about what I want to study in college. I’m now looking at schools with international relations programs. Even on MB’s smaller trips, you meet so many different people and do things that have impact, right here at home. Kids in college go abroad. To experience that in high school is awesome. It gets you out of your comfort zone. Having lived in little Rhode Island my whole life, traveling to Kenya was amazing. You learn to be open to new people and situations and you learn the context for the larger situation wherever you are. You can also be amazed. I’m big into music – when I saw those kids put on dances and performances, create incredible sounds and rhythms using water-carrying drums, it was inspiring.
In addition to the long-standing tradition of middle school team trips, over the last two years many new TRIPs experiences have emerged: • Service trip to Kenya • Lower and middle school overnight trips on the Appalachian Trail • Environmental science trip to Yellowstone National Park • Providence March Break intensive service retreat • Fifth grade history and civil rights trip to Washington, D.C. • Music education trip to Canada • Adventure education trip to the Colorado Rockies • Language and culture trips to Italy and Quebec, Canada • Girl Up conference in Washington, D.C. • Culture and sports trip to the Women’s World Cup in Canada • Sailing & Marine Education Summer Camp on Narragansett Bay aboard Friendship
– Kieran Harrington ’16
President, upper school student senate
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Endowment gifts to TRIPs provide for an annual program of day and overnight travel, research, and immersion experiences in all three divisions. New funding aims to ensure students can participate regardless of financial circumstances. Gifts also support faculty who lead TRIPs and a new administrative leadership position to coordinate the TRIPs program.
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$1 million in endowment funds a new position, the Director of Global Education, to expand the MB “classroom” outside our gates and around the region, country, and the world. The position will broaden MB’s impact in the community by encouraging and overseeing service and civic engagement programs, student and faculty TRIPs opportunities, and community/educational partnerships. away from home on your own?
People
As a Friends school, everything we do reflects the idea that we each have an Inner Light and are all uniquely valuable. Our charge is to cultivate that Light in children, helping them grow into adults who are intelligent, compassionate, and ethical.
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World-Class Teaching is the essential ingredient for educational excellence. To build on our legacy of inspired and inspiring teachers, MB is developing a rigorous model for supporting faculty, from hiring to evaluation and ongoing professional development.
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To attract the most creative and dynamic teachers and to foster a culture of continuous growth within our faculty, we ask donors to endow new cross-disciplinary team teaching opportunities, faculty leadership programs, and our innovative cohort model for veteran teacher evaluation and professional development.
World-Class Teaching In U.S. History, students study politicians, government officials, and civil rights organizations. No doubt about it – those historical actors are important to understanding history. And yet, they are not the only people who matter to understanding the power, legacy, and challenges of social movements. Playwrights, songwriters, actors, and musicians have played key roles, too.The new course Jonathan Pitts-Wiley and I co-teach, The Art of Social Change, examines the relationship between movements for social change and the performing arts. By the end, students gain a deeper understanding of the struggles of black and gay people for citizenship rights and full recognition of their humanity. Movements like the civil rights and gay liberation movements were promoted through popular songs and plays; these works are helpful vehicles for studying history.We want students to realize there is often a deeper political message behind the work they enjoy. Students can see the connections between the goals of these movements and the kinds of changes that have (and have not) been realized in our society today. Former students have been in touch with us since they began college this fall to share new connections they’ve experienced and to convey the confidence our course gave them to pursue these issues in college. Jonathan and I had a great time co-teaching this elective – it was one of the high points of our year.
It’s happening! An unwavering commitment to world-class teaching is at the core of MB Believes and has resulted in a series of important enhancements in recent years: • Established, through an historic lead endowment gift in the spring of 2014, the Russell H. Carpenter ’59 Program in Teaching Excellence. • Established a new series of cross-disciplinary, team-taught courses in the upper school, including: Poetry of Science
Engineering Design
Literature of Power & Protest
Utilizing Math and Humanities to Understand Global Contemporary Issues
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• Focused training for teachers in areas such as: iPads
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Global Education • Developed rigorous recruitment, evaluation, and professional development protocols for teachers, including online student course feedback in middle and upper school and an innovative cohort model for teacher growth and reflection. • Established nine new faculty leadership positions to help advance the school’s TRIPs, Expert Thinking, and Ethical Leadership initiatives. • Sponsored by a grant from the E.E. Ford Foundation, groups of teachers have pursued team study and travel to England, Costa Rica, Israel and Palestine, Colorado, Alaska, and the Galapagos Islands. • Unprecedented numbers of MB teachers have been widely recognized for their innovation and expertise – with many being invited to present their work at national conferences and in professional publications.
– Jennifer Stewart Humanities Department Chair, on teaching an interdisciplinary course with Jonathan Pitts-Wiley.
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Alumni often provide powerful testimony about the so-called Grand Masters, a generation of faculty from the 1940s to 1980s who taught, coached, and lived with students when MB was a boarding school. Today, teachers remain MB’s most valuable asset, and we seek endowed funding to support a school-wide commitment to crossdisciplinary team teaching, new positions of faculty leadership, and dramatic growth in professional development funding.
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Endows a Teacher Leadership Fund, providing additional compensation to a teacher who manages a major project or initiative that will have wide-ranging benefits.
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Moses Brown has put increased scholarship funding at the center of its vision so that we can continue to attract the most talented and diverse students. We believe that enhancing access to MB will allow us to enroll the best minds and expose our students to the broadest range of perspectives, thereby strengthening the educational experience for our entire community.
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Moses Brown intends to increase the yearly scholarship budget by over $1 million (30% ) through a combination of new dedicated endowment and increased annual giving.
Open access Going to Moses Brown wasn’t my choice. My mother wanted me to get the education she felt I deserved. My daycare teacher Ms. Benita saw in me the desire to learn from books instead of playing with toys. They saw something in me and wanted to make my life easier by making it a little harder at first. Growing up in two worlds wasn’t easy. But I will never forget the words of encouragement from so many of my teachers going back to third grade. They saw what my mother and Ms. Benita had seen, and helped me to eventually see it as well. I learned to appreciate my two worlds and become a proud member of the MB community. Going on the music trip in eighth grade, helping people in the Dominican Republic junior year, attending proms, and getting an Alumni Award would not have been possible without the scholarship and financial aid that Moses Brown offered me.
It’s happening! Building on our commitment to access and affordability, MB has taken significant strides in recent years to enhance scholarship support. In 2015–2016:
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Thanks to MB, I made unbelievable friends and learned so much. Now in college, I see that things are different. My teachers aren’t there physically to support me every day, but their words and advice will stay with me forever; the experiences I had at MB shaped me into the person I am today.
• In recent years, over 60% of applicants have requested scholarship support.
I can now see what my mother, Ms. Benita, and all of my teachers saw in me since the beginning: a Light.
• In seeking $15 million in new endowment dedicated to scholarship – a 60% increase to today’s endowment of $25 million – MB will forever transform enrollment at the school.
• In 2015–2016, upper school tuition at MB is $33,125. • As MB has increased scholarship, it has also worked to slow the growth of tuition; over the past 10 years MB has had the lowest average tuition increase of peer schools in our market.
– Josabet Zepeda '15
MB Alumni Award Recipient 2015
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We believe in best minds engaging with broadest perspectives.
The impact There is perhaps no more powerful and enduring gift than educational opportunity. Scholarship not only alters the trajectory of an individual child’s life, it exerts a multiplier effect on the whole school community. Scholarship supports the creation of a highly capable and diverse peer group, which in turn exposes all students to a range of perspectives, enriches classroom discussions, and prepares students to live and work in a global society. Scholarship thus is a critical component of academic excellence, both for the individual and for our school as a whole. Through increased levels of endowment fundraising and annual giving, MB seeks to add $1 million to its annual scholarship budget, enough to support 50–70 new scholarship recipients.
WHAT’S NEXT?
Raise $15 million in endowment dedicated to scholarship Raise $1 million in annual gifts restricted to scholarship throughout the campaign $15 million in endowment funds a dramatic increase in scholarships for talented and deserving students. Endows a full-tuition scholarship for one student annually.
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Gifts of all Sizes
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Annual gifts of all sizes – restricted to scholarship or to The Moses Brown Fund – are essential to meeting the goal of increasing the scholarship budget by $1 million.
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The Moses Brown Fund offers every community member the oppor tunity to contribute to the inner promise of each student. Gifts to this core priority of the campaign are invested in four essential and enduring aspects of MB: Teaching & Academics; Scholarships; Athletics, the Ar ts, & Friends Education; and our Historic Campus.
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By building a yearly par tnership among thousands of community members, The Moses Brown Fund creates a powerful engine for growth, innovation, and sustained excellence.
Moses Brown Fund 40% Teaching & After teaching in Baltimore for ten years, I was nervous about finding a new school in Rhode Island when my wife and I moved here. But after just a few weeks of subbing at MB, I was lighting candles and begging administrators to let me stay! When I first came to Moses Brown, I thought I was a good teacher. It turned out, I didn’t know what good teaching was.
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I learned that if I let them, students would bring far more to the table than I expected. In my time at MB, I have learned to step back as a teacher, to ask questions and to listen, and to encourage my students to do the same. Every class, they reset the goal line and make discoveries I have never considered.
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As a teacher and parent, MB has given me so much. The Moses Brown Fund is a great way to give back.
Over the past few years, generosity to The Moses Brown Fund has fueled far-reaching progress connected to key initiatives of MB Believes, including:
I hope my donations help to bring in students who will embrace everything that MB has to offer, whose passion will keep me impassioned.
• Enhancing access and affordability, resulting in a 60% increase in the number of students receiving financial assistance over the past seven years.
Moses Brown is a vibrant, enthusiastic community driven by student and faculty passion and compassion. I feel blessed to be here, working with students who agree that we must read in order to truly understand ourselves; that true joy lies in teamwork and laughter; and that change lies within their grasp. I look forward to learning from and laughing with my students every day. There’s no other school I’d rather call home.
• Adding a 1:1 iPad program in the middle school. • Initiating a new program of evaluation and professional development for faculty, including online course evaluation tools for middle and upper school students. • New engineering and coding courses in all three divisions. • Orenstein Computer Lab remade into a Robotics Lab and ‘Maker Space.’ • A new lower school math curriculum and full-time math specialist. • The systematic implementation of Project-Based Learning across the school. • Refurbishment of MB’s significant collection of musical instruments.
– Michael Himelfarb
upper school English
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We believe we are more powerful as a community than we are as individuals.
The impact Your gift to The Moses Brown Fund provides the working capital to make immediate progress on the goals of MB Believes, strengthening the experience of today’s students. Annual giving via The Moses Brown Fund is central to the long-term financial strength of our school, and allows every member of our community to participate in MB Believes. The Moses Brown Fund provides over $1 million annually for developing new curriculum, outfitting classrooms with the latest technology, and providing scholarships to deserving students who make our school better.
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WHAT’S NEXT? Raise $5.4 million during the life of the campaign Build The Moses Brown Fund to a sustainable level of $1.25 million annually For many, an increased donation to The Moses Brown Fund spread over several years is the perfect campaign gift. Even for those who are drawn to endowment or capital giving priorities, we ask that every commitment to the campaign include a contribution to The Moses Brown Fund. Below are examples of what The Moses Brown Fund can do:
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Fund the equipment budget for a varsity sport
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Pay for a faculty member to travel to and attend a national conference
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Support the purchase of new percussion instruments for the wind ensemble
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Purchase software for the new lower school coding curriculum
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Pay for costumes for the fall play
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From the Front Circle to the Studio of the Three Oaks, from Alumni Hall to the Grove, a strong sense of place has been part of the MB experience for over 230 years. We seek to honor our past and support a bold vision for the future by developing new teaching spaces that foster creativity, problem solving, and collaborative learning.
Woodman Fam & Performance
Located at the center of our 33-acre campus, this 34,000-square-foot multifunctional facility is designed to be the physical heart of Moses Brown. Sitting at the crossroads of all three divisions, it connects to a fully-renovated Walter Jones Library and will become the new social, artistic, intellectual, and spiritual hub of campus.
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The Woodman Center can be quickly reconfigured for performances, meeting for worship, art and cultural exhibitions, and social functions – and with a lobby cafÊ, new classrooms, costume and scene shops, and professional-grade sound and lighting, it is poised to transform life at Moses Brown.
Woodman Center It’s happening! Like a lot of little girls, I wanted to be an actress. I was in A Christmas Carol at Trinity Rep for years! At MB, I loved theater classes PHOTO BY JOE MAZZA, BRAVE LUX INC. with Barry Marshall. But playwriting class changed things for me – suddenly we weren’t just interpreting a story, but creating the story. After MB, I headed to the University of Chicago – it seemed like a place for weird people, so it might be good for me. Young artists can take chances there. I started a company with my friends, and suddenly we were in American Theatre magazine. We had a good script, and people paid attention. For me, it goes back to those early days in the Chicago ensemble scene, creating and performing tons of work every week. We didn’t choose between writing, performing, and directing. We did it all. Now that I teach acting, I sneak in a little devised work, encouraging students to make their own text, not to see themselves as ‘just’ actors. That mindset started in Barry’s classes at MB.
MB broke ground on the Woodman Center on June 4, 2015. Slated to open in the winter of 2016–2017, it has a number of interesting design features, including: • With a capacity of 500, the main hall can host the entire upper school for meeting for worship; as a theater, the stage can be configured for traditional, thrust, or theater in the round – offering broad creative license to performers and directors. • The main hall can also be easily converted into a flat-floored multi-purpose space almost twice the size of the Sinclair Room. • A full catwalk and tunable acoustic baffling allow for professional-grade lighting and sound, offering new opportunities to teach the technical aspects of theater production. • A full basement provides adequate storage for our collection of costumes, props, and set materials. It will also house the school’s new central heating plant, addressing MB’s largest deferred maintenance liability.
New pathways and vibrant outdoor spaces will facilitate spontaneous connections and encourage learning in both formal and informal ways.
I also learned a lot from Tom Andrew. Jamie German made a huge impression on me: her honesty, her rigor, the way she lives her life…such an inspiration. In Jamie’s Seminar on Scientific Thought, we read texts that were so beautiful, they’re still with me now. Moses Brown also taught me that part of being a good teacher is simply listening to your students.
– Chloe Johnston '95
The glass-enclosed lobby and outdoor patio together form a bright and comfortable café where community members can gather to socialize, collaborate, and build stronger relationships.
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We believe in coming together to learn, play, perform, and celebrate.
The main hall features full theater-style seating and a three-quarter balcony with clear sight lines from every seat in the house. With a design unlike any in New England, retractable seating and a hydraulic flooring system will allow the hall to be transformed to a completely flat floor for art exhibits, social events, or meeting for worship.
The Walter Jones Library will be completely re-made, creating quiet study and research spaces, a new classroom, and three learning studios to support small-group work and instruction. The lower level of the library (not shown) will be transformed into a new archives storage and research facility, allowing MB’s centuries of history to come to life.
Woodmans Add $3 Million To Historic Lead Gift In the fall of 2013, MB announced that Dean Woodman ’46 and his wife Jane had made the largest gift in school history – $5 million.Their contribution put the long-held dream of a new Community & Performance Center within reach. But as the design process developed, the Woodmans decided to make an additional $3 million gift, extending their total contribution to $8 million, ensuring that this project will exceed the expectations of the MB community. “We were at a difficult point in the design process,” recalls Matt Glendinning. “We were going to have to make some hard choices. I’ll never forget when Dean told us not to cut corners, to go the extra mile to make sure the Woodman Center would serve us well for generations.”
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WHAT’S NEXT?
Raise $17.5 million (includes $2.5 million in operating and maintenance endowment) Naming Opportunities
All gifts are welcome, and a broad array of naming opportunities are available ranging from $75,000 to $1 million+. Patrons & Stewards
The school also seeks contributions of $25,000 (Patrons) and $50,000 (Stewards). Patrons and Stewards will be recognized together in a centrally-located plaque or display. Name Your Seat
Gifts of $1,000 will be recognized with a name plate on the seat of your choice in the main hall. To explore detailed plans for the Woodman Center and to see a full list of giving/naming opportunities, please go to MBbelieves.org/woodman
What did it feel like? What did you learn about yourself?
As a home base for the Expert Thinking Model, the Y-Lab will be an incubator where ideas can move from theory to practice, allowing students to make their own discoveries and experience the joy of learning in a space where it’s OK to fail, start again, and make a mess.
Y-Lab
Located in a renovated Alumni Hall, the 5,000-square-foot Y-Lab will be a workshop dedicated to engineering, project-based experimentation, and creative problem-solving. A tinkerer’s studio, the Y-Lab will be supported by leading-edge technology like 3D printers, laser routers, and digital prototyping software – and low-tech modeling materials like sticky notes, cardboard, and glue guns.
Y-Lab It’s happening! When I learned I’d be part of MB’s faculty cohort program, I panicked… would I meet the expectations of my peers, students, myself? Then I realized it was a golden opportunity to try a new approach. I like to change things up, experimenting with new curricular ideas and gauging how students respond. I’m fascinated by the ‘maker’ movement – it’s technological and creative, similar to scientific research and creating art: asking questions that lead to more questions. Students identify and solve problems, flex their creative muscles, communicate effectively, and think critically. The maker movement draws on the human inclination to learn by doing. I introduced a new elective, Tinker, Tailor, Maker, which focused on tinkering and working with the Arduino platform, electricity, magnetism, force, and motion. We took things apart and built art that was part science, part technology. Students chose everything, from the product to create to the rubrics for evaluation. I built in time for failure, contemplation, and reflection. One project even saw students build a runner’s safety vest with an active signal to warn approaching drivers. Experimentation has always been part of the arts classroom. Trial and error is not a process that is comfortable for many students. We encourage them to embrace failure as valuable, even a requirement for success. – Kristin Street upper school visual arts, 35-year veteran teacher
With the completion of the Woodman Center, Alumni Hall will be transformed into the Y-Lab, a space that will feature: • An open, flexible floor plan that can evolve and change easily to adapt to teachers’ and students’ shifting needs from project to project. • A presentation and critique space supported by leading-edge technology, where students can share and seek feedback on their work during the design process. • Small group meeting rooms where design teams can work on projects or seek help from teachers. • Individual fabrication studios, including 3-D printers, digital routers, and the many tools of industrial design. • A vast supply of low-tech modeling materials (scrap wood, cardboard, connectors, glue guns, etc.) that can be organized into moveable design carts and easily adapted for different projects.
Lead Donors Honor Quaker Polymath and Offer 1:1 Matching Challenge An anonymous couple, parents of an MB alumnus, has provided a lead challenge gift of $750,000 (as part of an overall campaign pledge of $2.285 million) to transform Alumni Hall into the Y-Lab. To honor MB’s history as a Friends school, the facility will be named in honor of Quaker Thomas Young (1773–1829). A true scientific pioneer, Young overturned Newtonian orthodoxy by showing that light is a wave, not just a particle. He also proposed the three-color theory of vision, and is best remembered for ‘Young’s Modulus’ of elasticity, a fundamental principle of materials and structural engineering. The lead challenge gift for the Y-Lab, representing half of the total $1.5 million fundraising goal, has been offered as a 1:1 matching challenge to inspire donors from across the MB community (all gifts to the Y-Lab will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $750,000). If you could invent something,
We believe in taking on challenges by questioning, collaborating, and designing.
The impact The Y-Lab will provide a space for students to experiment and showcase their learning, and will support teachers using a ‘hands-on = minds-on’ approach to instruction. The Y-Lab can be a venue for any group – students, faculty, administrators, parents, or alumni to work on complex problems with visual thinking, brainstorming, prototyping, and collaboration. In this way, we imagine the Y-Lab will become a hub for creative problem-solving at Moses Brown.
What’s next?
Raise $1.5 million (includes $250,000 in operating & maintenance endowment) Naming Opportunities
Gifts of all sizes are welcome, and an array of naming opportunities, from $50,000 to $250,000+, will be developed as architectural plans for the Y-Lab are completed during the 2015–2016 school year. As architectural plans and naming opportunities are finalized, they will be available at MBbelieves.org/y-lab
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The Young Learners Center is a 13,000-square-foot expansion to MB’s lower school designed to support the way children learn in the 21st century. By clustering together the more ‘hands-on’ disciplines – science, art, music, library, and a children’s Innovation Lab (i-Lab) – the new wing will promote experiential learning, integrative thinking, and group collaboration.
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Young Learners Center My dream for the lower school is that we create a place where children feel at home and love to be. We want to create a physical space that encourages our students to ask questions, be curious, and make discoveries. I am excited about the possibility of open and interconnected areas for children to explore as they play to learn and learn to play. When I think about expert thinking in the lower school, I love what we’re already doing, but to move forward it’s essential to bring science, art, and library back into the lower school building. Having our special-subject teachers in the same building as our classroom teams creates many more opportunities for collaboration and puts our experts on-site. Some of the most meaningful times in lower school are when our community gathers together for special events such as holiday sings or classroom celebrations. A space that could accommodate everyone would enhance the feeling of community that we so value in the lower school. The 21st-century thinking that MB is bringing into elementary education is helping to guide us as we ask ‘How can our physical space further our commitment to hands-on, collaborative, and interdisciplinary learning?’
It’s happening! The 13,000-square-foot expansion of the lower school will create new community and active learning spaces, including: • A completely new entrance with a handicap-accessible lobby and enhanced sight lines and supervision. • A community gathering space to accommodate a variety of class-based and divisional gatherings and celebrations, from the chorus breaking silence on Friday mornings to the holiday sings. • New classrooms for art, library, music, and science – bringing these essential learning programs back into the lower school building. • An Innovation Lab (i-Lab) specially designed for elementary students to encourage the curiosity, creativity, and selfexpression of our youngest learners. • Modest renovations to existing public spaces within the lower school to improve circulation and the student experience. • A new kitchen and nurse’s station.
– Jeff d’Entremont Head of Lower School, teacher in the LS since 1997
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We believe in the wondrous experiences of young learners and the inspired spaces that propel them.
The impact Lower school is home to over 200 young learners, more than a quarter of all MB students. Inspired by the Quaker belief that each child has a unique Inner Light, lower school offers a rich academic program that encourages students to reach their fullest potential academically, socially, and emotionally. MB seeks to dramatically enhance the quality of physical spaces for our elementary students, empowering teachers to stretch the curriculum, and fostering children’s innate curiosity and desire for exploration.
Preliminary conceptual design for new lower school community gathering space.
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Supports this important project and is recognized prominently in a lobby display. Gifts of all sizes are welcome, and an array of more specific naming opportunities will be developed as architectural plans are completed during the 2015–2016 school year. They will be available at MBbelieves.org/younglearners your mom or dad didn’t know? How did it make you feel?
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The Sailing & Marine Education Center will provide a waterfront classroom for marine and maritime education, a home for the school’s championship sailing team, and consistent suppor t for the MB TRIPs initiative.
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With anchorage for Friendship (a 36’ Union Cutter sailboat donated to the school by Dean Woodman ’46) and a classroom suitable for biology, environmental science, and maritime history, art, and literature, this satellite facility will expand opportunities for transformational travel and exploration on Narragansett Bay.
Sailing & Marine Center For two years I participated in the summer camp program on the S/V Friendship, Moses Brown’s 36’ Union Cutter. With Captain Casey Charkowick, I spent many hours maintaining the ship and helping to run the program. It was a great experience for me, and I think MB should have a long-term program – even expand its fleet. This experience is unique and contributes to all students’ knowledge of the Bay. Kids from MB and other schools who sailed on the Friendship appreciated being able to learn about the Bay up close. It was a unique experience – one you could only find at MB. As a marine biology student, I support any marine education program. It’s critical to understand the Bay, both historically and in its present condition, and to understand the ocean and ecology that makes up so much of our state. Narragansett Bay is a very important part of Rhode Island and has so much to do with the founding and history of MB itself. Students need to understand what the Bay provides. MB’s sailing team helped me appreciate the Bay, and taking MB’s Marine Biology elective and working on the Friendship taught me so much, beyond science and sailing to life lessons about how to lead and when to follow. All of that put me on a path to Maine Maritime Academy and a life on the water.
It’s happening! MB’s Sailing and Marine Education Center will feature: • A freestanding 1,500–2,000-square-foot expansion of MB’s campus onto Narragansett Bay. • A fully-equipped classroom to support marine education programs for students of all ages. • Shoreline access for research and specimen collection. • Adequate storage and locker rooms for the sailing program. • Dockage for the sailing team’s fleet of 420’s, FJ’s, and chase boats. • Anchorage for Friendship, MB’s 36’ Union Cutter sailboat. • Flexible space to host small school events and meetings.
– Henry Todesco-Perkins '15
first mate on the Friendship, four-year sailing team member
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We believe that Rhode Island’s geography and ecology provide a truly powerful opportunity for learning.
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The Sailing & Marine Education Center will provide many ways for students to learn, both out on the water and back on shore. Participants in MB’s sailing program – a tradition that includes AllAmericans and Olympians – can study tactics in a fully-equipped classroom and practice on the waters where Moses Brown himself once sailed. Marine scientists of all ages can learn about the unique ecology of the bay, gaining a deeper understanding of marine biology and the interconnected systems of our environment. And members of the extended MB community can enjoy events, meetings, and more in a setting that is both historic and beautiful.
What’s next? Raise $1.5 million
FULLY FUNDED by a generous anonymous donor. What have you imagined lies beyond the sea?
Habib Gorgi ’74, Board Leadership
I vividly remember walking up the steps of Middle House for the first time. I was an uneasy 12-year-old Egyptian immigrant who spoke little English. But from the moment I arrived on this campus, I felt safe and supported. Beyond the caring community, I was pushed to be better every day. The teachers at MB instilled the skills, confidence, work ethic, and values that have been at the center of my success in life. They did it for me, and a generation later, they have done it for my children. I invest so much time in MB because I firmly believe the world needs more places that share MB’s commitment to instilling values and intellect in equal measure. Habib Gorgi ‘74, P’08 ’10 ’12 ’17 Clerk, Board of Trustees
Brian & Barbara Goldner P’14, Campaign Leadership
Moses Brown – much like Hasbro – is leveraging its timeless strengths while challenging the community to innovate for the future. MB’s focus on creativity, on teaching kids how to apply knowledge to solve real problems, on developing global competencies, while staying true to its values-based mission is a vision we believe in. As we travel around the world, we meet many people with deep expertise who can’t operate across cultural boundaries or creatively adapt to rapid changes – and, sadly, who have a troubling lack of integrity. As we watch our daughter and her MB friends grow beyond graduation, we’ve gained an even greater appreciation for the imprint the school left on their lives. They are fun-loving, self-confident, self-aware, and they care about each other and the world around them. That’s an ‘end product’ worth investing in! Brian & Barbara Goldner P’14 Chairs, MB Believes: A Campaign for Learning, People, and Place Brian is Chairman, President, and CEO, Hasbro, Inc
Why endowment matters Moses Brown is very special to me and my family and it’s always been my intention to endow a scholarship to support students in a time of need. I realized recently that by combining an outright gift with a commitment in my will that I could see my gift in action, supporting students at MB today.
Endowment is forever. Moses Brown exists now in part because of gifts made over 230 years ago, which means that your contribution today will support students and teachers 100 years from now – and beyond. To become part of this legacy, you can permanently honor someone who has had a shaping influence on your life – family member, friend, coach, teacher – by establishing a named endowed fund ($25,000 minimum, payable over multiple years). Or make an endowment gift of any size and know that your support will help MB lead for another 230 years.
What is Endowment? What does it do?
Endowment funds, like 401k or 529 accounts, are saved and invested today for a specific purpose tomorrow. These long-term investments provide annual income for specific priorities – professional development for teachers, scholarships, academic programs like Engineering & Design Learning, and co-curricular activities like Model UN and robotics. Endowment can also be used to provide permanent funding for faculty or staff positions, like a Director of Global Education.
Investment and Governance The school invests its endowment through the Moses Brown Foundation. The Investment Committee, a subcommittee of the Board of Trustees’ Budget and Finance Committee, works with the school’s investment advisor to review asset allocations and make investment recommendations. MB’s endowment is invested in a socially responsible manner consistent with our Quaker values. As shown in this pie chart, the asset allocation of the Moses Brown Foundation as of June 30, 2015 was: The Moses Brown Foundation has maintained a strong record of investment returns:
As students at MB in the 1950s and ’60s, Vin Marcello ’60 and his late brother, Albert ’70, received scholarships helping them remain at school after their father passed away. Vin’s recent gift is a way to thank MB and to keep his family’s memory alive forever at MB.
5.7% (calendar year 2014) 19.1% (calendar year 2013) 12% (calendar year 2012) This performance demonstrates that the impact of your endowment gift will continue to grow over time.
15.5% International Equity
26.2% Fixed Income
58.3% Domestic Equity
Bigelow steam boilers installed in MB’s power plant in 1940. A new power plant will be located in the Woodman Center.
Endowment fuels the future Like a smooth-running machine, Moses Brown’s fiscal engine is powered by income received through tuition, charitable donations, and annual distributions from endowed funds. Endowment distributions help us provide the best education possible – supporting great teaching, academic and co-curricular programs, and scholarship. MB Believes is an opportunity to secure the financial future of Moses Brown. Over 231 years MB has amassed an endowment of over $25 million (via both gifts and market
growth). With the success of MB Believes, the school will add $28.1 million in new gifts to the school’s endowment, more than doubling its current size. To secure MB’s reputation and strength, the school needs to build the financial resources to attract the best teachers and students and provide them with truly world-class facilities and programs. This campaign has the potential to catapult MB to a much stronger position among peer schools regionally and nationally.
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I Believe. How can I contribute? After 25 years as part of the Moses Brown community and with the graduation of our youngest child [Addie Gilson ‘14, at left], we wanted to make a meaningful gesture in honor of our children’s experience. The campaign allowed us to make a pledge that we could fulfill over a number of years. As such, we were able to make a more significant gift.
DID YOU KNOW? • T o maximize your gift and allow for long-term planning, you can make a pledge to MB Believes payable over 3-5 years. • You can make a recurring monthly gift to MB on your credit card, spreading your annual contribution over 12 months. • You can establish and name an endowed scholarship (or other endowed fund) via a documented bequest or other planned gift. • No matter your age, you can name MB as a beneficiary of all or part of your IRA (or other retirement accounts). “Gifting” your IRA – often the most heavily-taxed part of an estate – can be the most tax-advantageous way to make a planned gift. • By documenting your estate gift today, we can recognize and celebrate your contribution as you help us meet the goals of MB Believes. • You can run personalized and confidential planned gift calculations and compare estate gift options from the comfort of your home or office at www.mosesbrown.giftplans.org.
Michael Gilson and Joan McPhee P’07 ’10 ’14 made a major campaign commitment as part of the 2014 Senior Parent Gift effort. Their contribution supports The Moses Brown Fund and the Woodman Family Community & Performance Center.
If You Would Like to… Support MB today
And you receive the following benefit...
Then Consider… …making an outright gift or multi-year pledge to the campaign
Deduct 100% of the gift value for federal income-tax purposes.
Give to MB today without depleting your cash reserves; avoid capital-gain tax
…contributing appreciated stock
Receive an income tax deduction for the full market value of the stock; pay no capital-gain tax.
Make a significant future gift without affecting your current lifestyle
…leaving MB a charitable bequest as part of your will
Reduce estate taxes and retain control of your assets during your lifetime. Establish a meaningful legacy at MB.
Make a meaningful gift to MB now and receive an income stream for life
…setting up a Charitable Gift Annuity
Receive a current income stream and an immediate income tax deduction.
…making MB the beneficiary of a Corporate Matching Gift
You can significantly add to your gift without any further expenditure on your part.
Leverage your outright gift to provide even more support to MB
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Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Ted Low ’44 and Emily Low Boenning ’81 have been leaders in this community for almost 75 years. Ted served his country and sailed around the world months after his MB graduation and now works side by side with his daughter Emily, operating their own environmental consulting business in Providence. Because of their shared experiences, life-long involvement, and ongoing love for Moses Brown, Ted and Emily have made gifts in their wills that will add to an endowed scholarship fund in their family’s name. Their bequests will create a permanent legacy – one that will be at MB for many more than 75 years.
Bequests are flexible and versatile – since you don’t make a gift in your lifetime, you maintain control of your assets. They often allow individuals to make much larger gifts than they ever imagined and are relatively simple to set up with just a few sentences included in your will.
If you are like Ted and Emily and MB is already in your will, please contact Perry Buroker in the Development Office at 401-831-7350 x289 or pburoker@mosesbrown.org. Or if you would like to privately explore estate planning options and run your own personal gift scenarios, visit www.mosesbrown.giftplans.org.
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Campaign Goal Overview Learning, People, and Place $ 5.4 million
The Moses Brown Fund
Learning $ 4.0 million $ 1.5 million
TRIPs Endowment Expert Thinking Model Endowment
(Engineering & Design Learning Program; Project-Based Learning)
People $15.0 million $ 1.0 million $ 3.5 million
Scholarship Endowment Scholarship Current-Use (annual) Giving World-Class Teaching Endowment
Place* $17.5 million $ 5.6 million $ 1.5 million $ 1.5 million
Woodman Family Community & Performance Center Young Learners Center Y-Lab Sailing & Marine Education Center
$56.50 million Total Campaign Goal Campaign Goals Overview
Campaign Endowment Goal
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