Torch - Spring 2015

Advancement & Community Relations

Giving Ambassadors

By Louise Yearwood, Executive Director of Advancement & Community Relations

The focus of our program is participation rather than total funds raised; however, increasing participation in fundraising means that the school raises more funds with which to deliver and enhance its exceptional educational program. And, due to the success of our Junior School Giving Ambassadors this year, next school year we hope to introduce this component of our Annual Giving Program to the Upper School with the introduction of Upper School Giving Ambassadors. The Havergal website has an area dedicated specifically to this program that tracks the participation by grade: www.havergal.on.ca/ JSGiving . We encourage Junior School parents to visit it weekly to discover how their child’s grade is doing. We thank all those families who have shown—and continue to show—their support for Havergal’s Annual Giving Program with their yearly donations. And we especially wish to thank our Junior School Giving Ambassadors for so generously giving their time and their treasure to promote and support our Annual Giving Program.

Every generation of Havergal students has benefited from the vision and generosity of past supporters. Each year, through our Annual Giving Program, we encourage all members of our community to advance our culture of philanthropy by supporting the school’s strategic initiatives to ensure our students’ success. Havergal’s Annual Giving Program lies at the heart of the school’s fundraising efforts and each year we look to increase our levels of participation across all constituent groups. In fall 2014, we launched a new component to our program in the Junior School—the class Giving Ambassadors. Now, every Junior School grade not only has a Grade Representative but also a Giving Ambassador to help nourish our culture of philanthropy here at Havergal. These Giving Ambassador parents have had a major impact on donations from Junior School families to Havergal; since the inception of the program a few short months ago, the participation rates have increased dramatically across all Junior School grade levels.

Junior School Giving Ambassadors (from left to right): Michael Newton, Heather Colwell (Senior Development Officer), Annette White, Leslie Anne Dexter (Head of Junior School), Heather Partridge, Kevin Daley and Martha Simmons. Absent: John Carrique

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