Endowment for Long-term Sustainability & Operations of Summit Charter School
We are nearing our 30th year of educating, and your endowment support will live in perpetuity to ensure Summit’s special spaces and places last for generations!
We are nearing our 30th year of educating, and your endowment support will live in perpetuity to ensure Summit’s special spaces and places last for generations!
Help Summit Charter School sustain continued growth and achieve long-term sustainability
As a public, tuition-free charter school, Summit receives only 75% of what traditional public schools receive from the state and county, and 0% funding for their facilities and capital projects. Annually, Summit faces funding gap challenges, especially regarding their facilities, maintenance, and capital projects.
We have identified three distinct areas in Summit’s operations which embody the school's mission and strategic goals:
- Places (e.g. our facilities)
- People (e.g. our students, faculty, staff)
- Programs (e.g. our curriculum offerings and continual development)
While all three of these are vitally important to who we are and what we stand for, our school would not be able to function without our facilities operating in a safe, dependable manner. Continued preventative maintenance on Summit’s nearly 20 year old campus is integral to the survival of the school, and allows our people and programs to come together on a daily basis.
Therefore, our endowment’s Phase I will be focused on Places. By December 2027, our goal for the first phase of the endowment is $4.2M, of which we have already raised $1.7M. Our gap to raise for this first phase is $2.5M.
Summit Charter School is nearing its 30th year of educating. Your Endowment support will live in perpetuity to ensure Summit’s special spaces and places last for generations.
There’s no better time to join us in keeping the lights on!
If you would prefer to mail a check, please send it to:
Summit Charter School Foundation
Attn: Laura Lamont
P.O. Box 2493
Cashiers, NC 28717
We also happily accept:
- Multi-year pledges
- Gifts of Cash
- Gifts of Securities (appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual funds)
- Gifts In-Kind to Support Construction and FF&E
- Donated labor, materials, services, furniture, fixtures, and equipment
- Gifts of Real Estate
- Matching Gifts (Many companies match donations to nonprofits and schools)
- Planned / Estate Giving
Each gift option has tax benefits to the donor as Summit Charter School Foundation is a 501(c)3 under Federal Tax ID 56-2039872.
