Nueva Fund + Realize the Potential

A MATCHING GIFT THAT’S NOT TO BE MISSED NUEVA FUND + REALIZE THE POTENTIAL

For the 2022–23 school year, we invite each Nueva family to make two gifts to Nueva—one to the Nueva Fund and one to the Realize the Potential (RTP) capital campaign.

Why the Nueva Fund?

Your essential annual support of the Nueva Fund helps nurture the magic that our students experience every day, as tuition alone does not cover the cost of a Nueva education.

Why a second gift?

In addition to the Nueva Fund, we periodically seek financial support for significant capital projects and for our endowment. Capital campaigns are investments in the school’s future: they make bold visions of what Nueva can be. And by investing in the future, they serve generations of students to come.

Why now?

This fall, we are pleased to bring our capital campaign, Realize the Potential, to a resounding conclusion—with support from the entire Nueva community.

To ensure our success, a generous anonymous donor has offered to match each dollar given or pledged to the RTP campaign with an accompanying Nueva Fund gift, up to $2 million. That means every family who makes a gift to the RTP campaign AND a Nueva Fund gift, will unlock a dollar-for-dollar match of their RTP campaign gift!

DOUBLE YOUR RTP DOLLARS!

Help us unlock the last $2 million in this dollar-for-dollar match by making a Nueva Fund + Realize the Potential gift or pledge on or before December 31, 2022.

Donors making gifts of all sizes will be included on recognition plaques on both our Hillsborough and San Mateo campuses.

The Realize the Potential capital campaign was launched in 2017 to resource the 2017–2022 strategic plan, funding campus improvements such as the San Mateo campus’s Diane Rosenberg Wing and the Hillsborough campus’s Science and Environmental Center and expanded cafè and kitchen.

Remaining funds—and all the funds raised in this matching challenge–will serve three key purposes: to increase our endowment to ensure Nueva’s sustainability for years to come; to expand our professional development and financial assistance programs; and to allocate funds for the humanities, arts and athletics facilities envisioned in the 2022-27 strategic plan.

2014 SAN MATEO CAMPUS

VALUES

• A dynamic learning community

• An environment of trust

• Social-emotional acuity

• Curiosity and creativity

• Passion and excellence

• Student agency

MISSION I

Our school community inspires passion for lifelong learning, fosters social and emotional acuity, and develops the imaginative mind.

MISSION II

Nueva works to reach teachers, students, and administrators everywhere by engaging the education community actively within the Bay Area, across the nation, and around the world.

COMMITMENT

Nueva’s commitment to diversity goes far beyond numbers and percentages. It is about the breadth of experiences our students bring to Nueva and our investment in opportunity and belonging that benefit each and every one of us.

NUEVA MAGIC SPONSORED BY THE NUEVA FUND

Most of our community members—especially students!—agree:

there’s something magical about our school. The Nueva Fund helps to make this magic possible by supplying funds annually for the 10 to 15 percent of the annual budget that is not covered by tuition.

Nueva magic sponsored by the Nueva Fund includes, but is certainly not limited to:

• Exceptional faculty with a deep understanding of Nueva students and how they learn, providing feedback and coaching toward clear goals

• Student choice in learning, through Wednesdays of Wonder, Mav Dives, electives, passion projects, Recital Projects, and Quest

• Design thinking for PreK through 12, embedded in curriculum and taught in dedicated I-Labs

• Internationally recognized SEL program

These are just a few examples. Nueva Fund gifts “Make the Difference” and have an impact on every student, every day.

THE IMPACT OF BUILDING AND INVESTING

The

BOLD INNOVATION BROAD IMPACT

Ensuring the Nueva experience can be offered to students and families from diverse backgrounds. Creating a dynamic and inclusive learning community for our students by investing in opportunity and belonging.

Providing resources for our faculty and staff to continue to learn, innovate, and develop new programs. Sharing our learnings with external communities around the globe in support of Mission II.

San

Future

Supporting full upper school enrollment and providing increased space for students in a broad range of classes, including machine learning, engineering, world languages, and debate. Supporting the continued development and iteration of the design thinking program.

Offering a space for students to grow as global citizens by creating a think tank for analyzing and problem-solving environmental, social, and equity issues.

Creating a space where students, faculty, staff, and parents can come together and build community.

Connecting the Science and Environmental Center with the Café and Kitchen Expansion.

Funding facilities for humanities, athletics, and arts in support of our 2022–27 strategic plan Renew-Belong-Innovate

ELEVATED WALKWAY

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER

CAFÉ

APRIL 2021

Secured a dollar-fordollar challenge match

Through a legacy of philanthropy at Nueva, we have been able to build facilities to enhance and expand program offerings. New facilities included in this campaign were designed with sustainability in mind, as they produce a net zero carbon footprint. In addition to sustainability, the architectural design was consistent with ongoing standards of each campus.

This campaign included facilities on both our San Mateo and Hillsborough campuses, and will support a wide range of programs, people, and purposes. In promoting our one-school, two-campus commitment, these facilities were designed to serve and be enjoyed by all Nueva community members, regardless of primary campus of attendance.

SEPTEMBER 2022

Updated Campus Master Plan in support of humanities, athletics and arts facilities.

APRIL 2020–

MARCH 2021

Paused RTP solicitation due to COVID

It is time to look towards 2027! With the capital projects envisioned by the 2017–2022 strategic plan completed, the RTP campaign is now focused on:

• Sustainability, through funds for the Endowments for Professional Development and Financial Assistance

• Capital projects, including humanities, athletics, and arts facilities envisioned in the 2022–2027 strategic plan

DECEMBER 2022

Attain matching goal, complete campaign

APRIL 2023

Planned installation of recognition plaques on both campuses

Investing in Our Future

Substantially increasing our endowment will give our school the confidence to continue being bold and investing in innovation. Nueva’s endowment is modest for a school of our age, size, and aspirations, as the school historically has invested in facilities and faculty to meet the needs of a growing community of gifted learners.

Growing our endowment will strengthen Nueva in perpetuity—a gift today will have a lasting impact on future generations. We strive to build our endowment to further support our strategic goals of diverse enrollment and faculty professional development. Now is the time to increase our endowment.

This includes:

Endowment for Financial Assistance

• Dedicate $20 million to create a dynamic and diverse learning community

• Support more students in need of financial assistance

• Extend our outreach to underserved communities

• Invest in opportunity and belonging

Endowment for Professional Development

• Dedicate $15 million for faculty and staff to continue to learn, innovate, and develop new programs

• Ensure that we continue to recruit, retain, and advance world-class educators

• Provide opportunities to encourage meaningful research and development

• Allow faculty engagement in deep investigation and sustained learning discussions

“We invite our entire community to support the RTP campaign, helping us unlock the remaining challenge match funds and demonstrating our collective commitment to Nueva’s future.”

Our son has always asked a lot of questions and is incredibly curious. We needed him to be in a place that embraces his curiosity, fosters it, and encourages it. At Nueva, our son hasn’t found his ceiling. His teachers engage him in his subjects in the way he needs, with complexity, creativity, and compassion.

NUEVA PARENT SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER CLASSROOM

Nueva has emerged as a national model for gifted learning not because we follow the tried and true path, but because we blaze our own trail.

DEAR FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE NUEVA COMMUNITY

I have the Nueva School in my blood. That was inevitable, since I am the proud parent of five Nueva students (three alumni and two current students). I love this school, and that is why it has been my distinct pleasure to have served as chair of Nueva’s board of trustees from 2014 to 2020. And, as chair of the Realize the Potential campaign, I am honored to lead this effort to make a major investment in the people, programs, and places that make Nueva unique.

Nueva has emerged as a national model for gifted learning not because we follow the tried and true path, but because we blaze our own trail. In that spirit, the Realize the Potential campaign reflects careful planning and preparation from the school’s 2017–2022 strategic plan. A key component of this plan is raising $100 million in philanthropic support to enhance the student experience today and to secure our future.

Like every independent school, Nueva cannot rely solely on tuition to provide everything we expect—and that our teachers need—to provide the superb education that is Nueva’s promise. While tuition and gifts to the Nueva Fund

support day-to-day operations, funds raised through capital campaigns allow us to ensure continued innovation in our programs. Since 2017, the RTP campaign has enabled us to significantly enhance our campuses to meet our educational aspirations while increasing our endowment.

This year, we have the opportunity to achieve our endowment goals—a significant investment in our future—and allocate funds for the humanities, athletics, and arts facilities envisioned in the 2022–2027 strategic plan.

On behalf of the Realize the Potential campaign committee, I invite each member of our community to help Nueva realize its potential. Together we will blaze Nueva’s path forward and fulfill the vision of this campaign.

CHAIR, RTP

Chair, Realize the Potential

BRUCE COZADD

Circle of Kindness

$1 to $9,999

Circle of Engagement

$10,000 to $24,999

Circle

to $999,999

Circle of Enthusiasm

$25,000 to $49,999

Circle of Creativity

$50,000 to $99,999

Circle

to $1,999,999

Circle of

$100,000 to $249,999

Circle

to $4,999,999

to $9,999,999

Circle

Commitment

$250,000 to $499,999

Nueva lets me be who I am. I get to explore my passions and learn about the things I care about.

Nueva students have the freedom and support to ask questions with abandon. We can explore fearlessly, confident in the guidance from our community and the strength of our connection to our peers and faculty.

I cannot imagine a better place to teach or a better place to learn. That combination is the magic of Nueva.

NUEVA STUDENT

NUEVA TEACHER

NUEVA STUDENT