Our Annual Pledge Drive is NOW OPEN, and I want to tell you plainly what we are asking for and why.

We have two goals this year. The first is $200,000. The second matters just as much, and it is 100% participation from our families. Not 100% of a certain amount, simply every family taking part at whatever level is right for them.

Why do we have an Annual Giving Campaign?

Public funding covers the essentials of running a school. It does not cover the programs that set GICS apart, and those programs are what your gift protects:

German dual language immersion. The salaries of our immersion teachers and the curriculum they teach from, including the German-language books and classroom materials that build our students' German steadily alongside their English, year after year, beginning in TK.

International Baccalaureate programming.  Teacher training, authorization costs, and inquiry-based materials that both the Primary Years and Middle Years Programmes ask of us each year.

Visual and Performing Arts. The specialists, classroom spaces, and the supplies that state funding treats as optional and our students experience as essential.

Technology, playground equipment, and outdoor furniture. The devices our students learn on, and the spaces where they play, eat, and gather when they are not in a classroom. These are the things our students need every day and that no one else pays for.

I also want to be honest with you about last year. We set the same goal and came in about $34,000 short, and that gap was not painless. It cost us enrichment opportunities that our students should have had. I would rather tell you that plainly now, at the start, than quietly absorb it again.