F U T U RE MAKER S : PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT
A Successful Campaign Needs a Strong Community By Alison Case
inclusion initiatives, our donors’ generosity has touched each and every member of the Rivers community. Look for our final campaign report this fall, which will highlight many of the ajor contributions to the Rivers FutureMakers camremarkable things our students and faculty have been able to paign have rightfully received a great deal of fando, learn, and achieve thanks to you. fare. But the truth is, a comprehensive fund-raising As a community, our success has been extraordinary, but campaign like FutureMakers is just as reliant on we still have work to do. With just a short time left in the Futuremodest gifts as on multimillion-dollar donations. In fact, 83% of the gifts we’ve received since the launch of the campaign Makers campaign—which officially comes to a close June 30— have been in the amount of $1,000 or less. This campaign we’re making a final push to raise all of the funds needed to truly belongs to all of us, and its complete the full scope of our impact extends to every Rivers strategic vision. Renovations to Our community has demonstrated student. our original academic buildings that we can accomplish anything when and Middle School spaces will Most FutureMakers donations have gone to our annual fund— we work together. With just a short time continue this summer, to bring all of our facilities up to a level of and all such gifts count toward left in the FutureMakers campaign, excellence that reflects—and will our overall campaign goal. Dowe’re making a final push to raise the enhance—the excellence of our nors can choose to give to the funds needed to complete the full academic program. We hope you areas they are most passionate will consider making a first gift, about, such as athletics, arts, scope of our strategic vision. or a final gift, to FutureMakers and financial aid. Many also choose to make unrestricted gifts, which Rivers allocates before the campaign’s close—and help Rivers extend to faculty to its greatest needs. And last year, our needs were indeed and students throughout the school the spaces and resources great, as we worked hard to respond to COVID-19—launching they need to perform at their best. RiversRemote, our online learning program, in March of 2020 The size of your gift doesn’t matter; what’s important is that and safely bringing students back for on-campus learning you give what you can. That’s because your contribution does through the fall and winter. a whole lot more than enable Rivers to meet its ambitious Our community has demonstrated that we can accomplish goals today; when you give, you inspire others to give, too, anything when we work together. FutureMakers was launched helping to create a dedicated culture of philanthropy that will resonate for future generations. publicly in late 2018. By fall 2019, our athletes were playing on FutureMakers was chosen as a theme for the campaign to brand-new state-of-the-art turf fields. And by January 2020, students and faculty were taking full advantage of the leadingreflect the impactful lives led by our incredible students—at edge Revers Center for Science and Visual Arts, benefiting Rivers, in college, in their careers, and in their communities. from spacious, light-filled classrooms, labs, and makerspaces; A FutureMaker is also what you become when you donate to experimenting with advanced tools and technologies includthe campaign, in any amount. Your generosity shapes the fuing 3D printers and laser cutters; and forging new creative colture of this school, the students educated here, and the world laborations and curricular innovations. Bolstering funding for our students will go on to lead. At Rivers, we are all making the everything from faculty development to diversity, equity, and future, together. � R
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