Carolina Friends School50 Years of Friends

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For Today, For Tomorrow, Forever

Three years ago, we each said, “Yes!”

“Yes!” for our children’s today. “Yes!” for our children’s tomorrow.“Yes!” for our children’s future. “Yes!” to leading the Building Friends Capital Campaign.“Yes!” to the joy of inviting you to join us, and others, in giving our children and teachers quality spaces in which to learn, thrive, and blossom.

Donations by 356 friends (and counting!) to Building Friends have made possible 11 key improvements to date—with only 2 projects remaining to complete. Our collective gifts to this effort build a solid foundation for brighter tomorrows for CFS students.

Gifts to the Friends of Friends School Annual Campaign are equally important. Our annual gifts help provide the books, lab equipment, sports gear, art supplies, and more so our teachers can nurture 500 students today and all through the year.

Planned gifts to Visionary Friends are absolutely essential. Gifts given through retirement accounts and wills help guarantee that CFS will be here forever. And that the future is bright for thousands of students over many decades.

Please join the hundreds of CFS community members in providing for thousands of children’s todays, tomorrows, and futures. Thank you!

An inv itation

from the co-chairs. . .

Martha Klopfer CFS Co-Founder , Alum Parent, Trustee E mer itaL iz Pungel lo Current & Alum Parent, TrusteeM ike B ishop Alum Parent, Former Trustee

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For Today, For Tomorrow, Forever

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Building Friends is our capital campaign

with a goal of raising $7.75 million to improve and expand teaching and

learning facilities at CFS.

The campaign focuses on enhancements in several areas:

• the sciences• the performing and visual arts

• physical education and athletics• small group and individual learning

• professional work areas

Amount Remaining to Raise before December 31: $940,000

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Success to date looks like this !

Enlarged Upper School art studio!Enhanced Upper School computer lab!Six new tennis courts!Middle School expansion and renovation!Enclosed and enlarged Quaker Dome!New greenhouse!New Chapel Hill Early School teacher work and storage spaces! Roads, water treatment facility, and other infrastructure! New Upper School makerspace and physics lab Regulation-size baseball field

Next Up (with your help!)1. Lower School expansion, beginning Spring 20152. Performing Arts Center, beginning 2016

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In Progress!

Underway!

Building Friends - Phase I Projects

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Representing 5% of the CFS budget,your donations to the Friends of Friends

School Annual Campaign help provide the everyday essentials for our

students, including: books for our libraries; lab equipment;

playground structures; End-of-Year and

Exploratorium expenses; technology; art, music, and

athletic supplies; and more.

The Friends of Friends School Annual Campaign

(Our goal is the equivalent of $770 per student that would otherwise need to be added to tuition.)

Please join our staff and trustees in giving from the heart as generously as you are able. From our Early Schools to the Upper School, every unit receives vital support from the annual fund. With gifts ranging from $1 to $50,000, no gift is too small and every gift makes a difference.

Our 2014-15 Goal: $385,000

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call to actionYou and your family are an essential part of our School’s story and its future. CFS began as the idea of a few and has grown over the last 50 years as a result of the support of many. Now it is our turn to write the next chapter in CFS history.

Your gift or pledge to Building Friends before December 31 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, making your investment go further. The opportunities are large, and no gift is too small.

You can help IMMEDIATELY byusing the enclosed envelope or visiting www.cfsnc.org/donate to make your gift or pledge.

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“At CFS, we’ve celebrated our commitment to stewardship, our shared responsibility to make the most of our resources, including

the physical spaces in which we teach and learn, for 50 years.

Now is the time to fortify our spaces in ways that will summon more from us for the benefit of generations of CFS students to come.

Experiential learning that animates the intellectual, imaginative, and ethical power of students and teachers is our goal.”

Mike Hanas, Principal

For more information, please visit www.cfsnc.org/2014FriendsCampaign or call Anthony L. Clay, Director of Advancement, at 919.383.6602 x268.

C a r o l i n a Fr i e n d s S c h o o l | 4 8 0 9 Fr i e n d s S c h o o l R o a d | D u r h a m N C 2 7 7 0 5QAs a result of the generosity of an anonymous donor who covered

ALL Building Friends campaign expenses (including this mailing),

100% of your gift will benefit students today, tomorrow, and in the future.

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