Funding Opportunities

Overview August 7, 2015

Funding Opportunities

Country Day Scholars Program

The Country Day Scholars Program provides new incoming ninth-grade students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to access the college preparatory curriculum at Sacramento Country Day High School.

This need-based scholarship program’s goal is to bring to the Country Day High School exceptional students with notable potential in one or more of the following areas: academics, leadership, innovation, the arts, and service.

Donations to the Country Day Scholars Program are accepted year-round in addition to being highlighted during the Fund-a-Need portion of our auction. We are proud and incredibly grateful of our community’s generous support.

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Country Day Scholars Program

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Country Day Fund

Each year, all members of our community are asked to make a tax-deductible gift to the Country Day Fund. Contributions make an immediate impact in and beyond the classrooms and supplement the essentials our school needs to maintain our small class size, support our outstanding faculty, and enhance our robust programming.

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Capital Giving

Capital Giving supports costly improvements to the school’s programs and physical plant. As SCDS continues to renovate and replace 1960’s temporary buildings on the Latham campus with handsome, state-of-the-art classrooms, these contributions are essential.

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Endowment and Restricted Giving

Gifts to the Endowment strengthen the financial health and flexibility of Country Day. The SCDS Endowment is comprised of several named endowed funds, some of which were established to honor family members and friends.

Donors may also direct gifts to a particular program, project, or need. If you are interested in restricting your support to any cause not mentioned below, please contact Director of Advancement Rachelle Doyle at 916-481-8811.

ENDOWED FUNDS

Andrew Cochrane ‘97 Libraries Fund
Lifers Scholarship
Geeting Art Scholarship
Barbara MacAulay Ore Faculty Development Fund
Scott Pfaendler ‘87 Scholarship Fund
Daniel E. White Faculty Salaries Fund (PK-8)
Stephen T. Repsher Scholarship Fund
General Endowment
Edward E. Ford Foundation High School Faculty Salaries Fund
J. Wesley Jamison Scholarship for Drama & Science
Class of 2003 Scholarship Fund
James W. Weatherholt ‘06 History Award

RESTRICTED GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

Connor Burns ‘20 Memorial Fund
Francie Tidey Award
Barbara Lazar Music Award

CLICK HERE to contribute to any of our existing endowed funds.

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Planned Giving

Planned gifts are gifts made through estate planning. Around 85% of all planned gifts are made by generous donors who leave a specific dollar amount or percentage of their estate to an institution or charity that is meaningful to them. These types of bequests are incredibly powerful and wonderful statements of support. And yet, they do not cost the donor a thing during his or her lifetime.

Cochrane Libraries Endowment Fund
in memory of Andrew Cochrane '97

The Andrew Cochrane Libraries Endowment Fund was created in 2004, by Mike and Cheryll Cochrane and Alicia Koehnle Cochrane in memory of their son and grandson, Country Day alumnus Andrew Cochrane ’97. Since its founding, the Fund has grown to over $75,000.

The Cochrane family chose this focus for the memorial fund based on an appreciation for the endless pathways to knowledge and opportunities available in the library system.

“Andrew had worked in the Summerbridge Program at Country Day, a program that reached out to under-resourced students in the greater Sacramento community. In keeping up with some of his students during the regular school year he quickly came to appreciate the importance of access to libraries and reference resources for all students,” says Cheryll.

Andrew’s classmates, friends, and family have given generously to the fund in his memory since it was established. This past year, with so much happening in our world, Cheryll and Mike felt there was an opportunity to revisit the focus of the fund to consider the growing needs of our diverse culture. The Cochrane family envisions opportunities for research on issues such as social justice, climate change, and cultural understanding, as these areas of focus relate to the overall concept of literacy at this time in our history. The fund will also continue, of course, to help our libraries maintain their excellence by providing literary, research, and technology resources.

“We feel that Country Day – its students, families, faculty, and staff – have a great deal to offer, learn, and share with each other, and the community. And, in turn that our community has a great deal to offer us in shared visions for the education of our future generations.” Cheryll Cochrane

We invite you to join us by making a gift to the Andrew Cochrane ‘97 Libraries Fund. Your donation will help sustain the long-term fiscal health of the school while building opportunities for Country Day to advance literacy within our school and the wider community. With your support, Country Day’s librarians will be able to invite thought-provoking and engaging speakers, purchase new resources and books, and launch initiatives to reach Country Day students and students all over the Sacramento region.

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Outside Fundraising
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Outside Fundraising Policy

Sacramento Country Day School fundraising should relate to the pedagogy, curriculum, strategic plan, mission, vision, and values of the school.

Fundraising should create opportunities for students, teachers, and parents to work together to accomplish mutual goals.

Recognizing that there are times when it is appropriate and necessary to raise funds that are not covered by the operating budget for classes, community service initiatives, teams and clubs, these activities should strive to promote an environment for learning and service to Country Day and the community at large.

In order to better coordinate the myriad of fundraising efforts at Country Day, the following guidelines have been established:

The Advancement Office will create and maintain a calendar of fundraising events. This calendar will ensure that fundraising endeavors do not compete for time and that the Country Day community is not fatigued or inundated with competing fundraising requests.
Any parent, student, faculty, staff, division, committee, or group that wishes to raise funds during the school year must complete the attached Fundraising Request Form outlining how, when, and for what purpose the fundraising will occur. This should be completed a minimum of two weeks prior to the activity or event.
All fundraisers must have a Country Day faculty or staff point of contact.
All fundraising requests will be considered. There will be a particular effort to minimize the amount of activity during the critical Country Day Fund Campaign.
Fundraisers should not be scheduled within two weeks of each other, in order to allow parents
Fundraisers cannot be publicized prior to the Fundraising Request Form being submitted and approved.

Fundraising Form

Please complete this form and submit it to the Advancement office.

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