What kind of “extras” does Annual Giving provide?
When TMI students participated in Jeff Wolfsberg’s four-day interactive drug education and wellness seminar, that was your annual giving dollars at work. They covered his stipend and all the materials. Thanks to contributions last year, we were able to buy starting blocks, training hurdles and relay batons for our Track team. While we’re talking athletics, annual giving provided uniforms for our softball, volleyball, baseball and cross country teams, Middle School P.E. gear, bounce-back goals for lacrosse, baseball resistance bands, and football shoulder pads. Your annual giving dollars pay for things like computer cart headphones, robotics kits and tournament entry fees, Founder’s Day tug-o-war ropes, classroom smart boards, sports awards, the Hugh O’Brien Leadership Workshop, tapestries for All Saints Chapel, and the SIRS Knowledge Source database for the Jones Library. Annual giving also helps fund scholarship and student financial aid to ensure that promising students of modest mea