The PBS Annual Fund

Supporting Today’s PBS

Today’s giving benefits every student, every day.

The PBS Annual Fund is PBS’s most critical fundraising initiative, providing unrestricted funding that balances the operating budget and ensures an exceptional education for every child. These funds, which account for approximately 7-10% of the school’s annual operating budget, are utilized in the same fiscal year in which they are raised.

In line with the traditional independent school model, tuition revenue does not cover the full cost of a PBS education. Rather than raise tuition across the board, we look to the generosity of our school community to help close the gap.

Each year, the entire PBS community is invited to contribute, with the goal of achieving 100% participation. School-wide participation in the PBS Annual Fund reflects our core value of "Community" and demonstrates our collective commitment to supporting our students, faculty and staff, and one another.

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Goals for 2024–2025

• 100% participation from families. We hope that the PBS Annual Fund can be a gift from the entire PBS community to our students. We ask that each current family consider a donation that is meaningful to them and that places PBS among their top philanthropic priorities for the year.
• Raise $1 million. Each year we strive to raise over $1 million dollars during our PBS Annual Fund. It supports PBS in recruiting and maintaining our incredible faculty and staff, pays for supplies, and is a vital resource for our school.
• Secure gift commitments by early Fall. The money we raise this year is spent this year, please make your gift or pledge early.

Successfully achieving these goals will provide the necessary resources to ensure that this school year is filled with learning, growing, and playing for each and every one. We are so grateful to all those who have made PBS a top philanthropic priority with a gift to this year's PBS Annual Fund. Please consider joining this generous group as we strive for 100% participation.

Thanks to the generous support of the PBS Annual Fund, the 2023-2024 school year was a period of growth built on our core values. Last year, the 2023-2024 PBS Annual Fund allowed innovation including:

• Updated Barby Little Science Lab: We reinvigorated the space with flexible furniture to better meet the developmental needs of Kindergartners through 5th Graders, creating an environment that supports dynamic, engaging learning.

• Investment in Faculty Development: Over 80 professional development opportunities were provided to our faculty, including courses at the Boulder Journey School, Responsive Classroom advanced training, Orff Schulwerk certification, and the Institute for Social and Emotional Learning, ensuring our educators continue to bring innovative and effective teaching practices to our classrooms.

• Enhanced Field Trips: We added educational field trips to locations such as Bing Music Hall, Chabot Space Center, and Francis Beach to even further enhance our curriculum, deepening our students' real-world learning experiences and making classroom concepts come to life.

• Addition of Inspiring Community Events including: Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month Band “Individúo,” Black History Month Living Museum (visiting astrophysicist, computer scientist, and African Drum Group), Lunar New Year Dragon Dance, Holi celebration, and virtual author visit for Arab American Heritage Month.

In anticipation of the generous support of the 2024-2025 PBS Annual Fund is set to drive continued innovation and academic excellence by investing in:

• New Faculty Positions: Funding the addition of a Math Associate and a Science Associate to strengthen our students' foundational skills.
• Addition of a 3rd Grade Co-Teacher: Expanding our teaching staff to support more differentiated instruction.
• Renovation of Learning Spaces: Creating a designated small-group learning room to facilitate focused, collaborative learning experiences. Spaces have been updated from top to bottom -- new flooring to new paint.
• Increased Small-Group Learning Time: Redesigning schedules to create more small-group work to foster deeper learning through differentiation.
• Children’s Health Council Partnership: Partnering with CHC to offer on-campus consultations for families, including in-classroom observations to support students’ emotional well-being. CHC will also provide faculty and staff education on many topics, including mental health and speech therapy, ensuring comprehensive support for students in and out of the classroom.
• Educating the Whole Family Speaker Series: Fostering family engagement with timely topics relevant to our early childhood and elementary school-aged children.
• Inspirational Engineering Manipulatives: Introducing Tubelox, Fort Boards, and more manipulatives to come that elevate student play with deep, innovative engineering thought, inspiring problem-solving skills, and exploration of real-world applications.
• And so much more!

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