Endowing Our Future
Endowing Our Future
The Endowing Our Future Campaign addresses the issue that are central to advancing Marin Academy’s mission and securing the resources to ensure it can thrive as a place of great strength and imagination. By endowing a fund, you are securing Marin Academy’s future.
The commitment to a $12 million dollar endowment will provide long-term support for the School’s Institutional mission and offers the means to respond to educational opportunities in the 21st century. The endowment was envisioned by Marin Academy’s Strategic Plan and will target essential areas needed for institutional strength: competitive faculty salaries, scholarships, and community outreach.
Gifts may be designated for a specific campaign goal of particular interest to the donor or left unrestricted. Name endowments may be funded through current gifts, multi-year pledges, and planned gifts and remain as a legacy of the donors’ vision and generosity.
The Marin Academy Board of Trustees has established the following endowment funds with a focus on four strategic objectives:
General Endowment Fund
Unrestricted gifts are particularly valuable, since they give Marin Academy the flexibility to allocate the fund where and when they are most needed. A gift to the general endowment enables increased attention to achieving long-range objectives and fiscal stewardship
Attracting and honoring a remarkable faculty
Endowment for Faculty Support
The fund supports compensation for MA Faculty
Named Faculty Chairs
Honor an accomplished faculty member with a chair named for the donor or the faculty member.
Increasing Access for a diverse student population
Bodie Brizendine Scholarship Fund
This endowment provides need-based financial assistance for a student who would otherwise not be able to attend
Scholarship Fund Honoring MA Faculty
This fund provides individual scholarship for an underrepresented student each year.
Securing Our Commitment to Community Outreach
Endowment Fund for Crossroads
This fund supports Crossroads, a three-year program launched in 2001 for low income students from the Canal neighborhood in San Rafael. The year-round and tuition free program, is designed to provide academic, artistic and personal growth opportunities for bright, motivated students during the critical middle school years.
For Marin Academy, Crossroads offers a great lesson in social activism and exposure to the realities of many issues in our society first-hand. Through their work as teachers, tutors and advocates, MA students are able to participate in a laboratory for education. Gifts for Crossroads may be made to support annual operating costs, or be applied to the Crossroads Endowment Fund.
