Harvey Fund
Moving Our Mission Forward
The Harvey Fund supports our school's highest priorities, including academic excellence, faculty development, financial aid, experiential learning, and more. It provides the school the ability to act on unique opportunities as they arise - opportunities that are not covered by tuition alone. Your contributions make every day extraordinary and sustain the hallmarks of a Harvey education, including small class sizes, exceptional faculty, and programs that empower our students to achieve their full potential.
HOW DO I GIVE?
Your gift to the Harvey Fund supports our most immediate funding needs each year, including teacher salaries, financial aid, and student programs. All gifts are spent within the year they are given.
Here are the ways to give:
- Unrestricted gift to the Harvey Fund
- Restricted gift for a specific program
- 8th Grade Gift or 12th Grade Senior Class Gift
- Week of Giving during the winter
- Our Annual Spring Celebration event every spring
HOW DO YOU USE MY GIFT?
Immediate Priorities: Unrestricted Dollars
Your support helps our school to remain agile to respond to immediate needs. Choosing this designation means that your dollars will immediately go toward supporting the greatest needs of the school. The Harvey Fund ensures that classrooms are equipped to support innovative, collaborative, and connected learning and teaching.
Academic Excellence: Experiential Learning
Your support helps sustain the hallmarks of a Harvey education; small class sizes, dedicated and highly qualified faculty, and opportunities for students to grow. Your gift helps ensure a class ratio of 6:1 student/teacher and an average class size of 10 that promotes experiential learning beyond the classroom.
Financial Aid: Accessible to All
Your support helps ensure that a Harvey education remains accessible to everyone. 37% of our student body receives financial aid totaling up to around $3.7M in tuition reduction. Making a gift to the Harvey Fund allows us to continue to offer generous assistance while continuing to provide exceptional learning opportunities.
Community Wellness: Joy Matters
Your support ensures an environment of social and emotional health and wellness that supports all teaching and learning on the Harvey Hilltop. A Harvey education fosters resilience, cultural fluency, and wellness for all our community members.
Beyond the Classroom: No Boundaries
At Harvey, we pride ourselves on offering our students a wide variety of opportunities to learn and grow beyond our core academic, arts, and athletics program. These opportunities include additional expenses that may create a financial burden for some families. Your support contributes to a fund established to provide access for all and helps defray the impact of non-tuition associated costs.
WHY I GIVE TO THE HARVEY FUND
Ashley Foote
P'24, '24, '25
We are beyond grateful for the educational opportunities and experiences that Harvey has provided for our three children. We realize that our children have been and continue to be the beneficiaries of generous donations from earlier years. We are delighted to contribute with a forward-thinking outlook to ensure that future generations continue to benefit from all that Harvey has to offer.
Jerri-Lynn Galgano
P'20 and '23
My family gives to the Harvey Fund because we believe in Harvey's mission and would like to see Harvey's future become even better than its past. Harvey's outstanding programs - the theater program, the robotics competitions, Model UN - and small classes, would not be possible without the Harvey Fund. We want Harvey to remain a creative, strong, and inspiring place for all students.
Beth Visintainer
P'07, Assistant Head of Upper School & English faculty
I give to Harvey because relationships matter. Supporting a place where folks listen, argue with compassion, and grow together is essential because here at our school, we dare to know each other. For over twenty years, I have observed acceptance, kindness, laughter, haikus, friendship, and joy at Harvey - that is why I give.
Wendy Lederer
P'27, '25, '23
We give because we want every student to have those same experiences as our children - to explore their passions, spend time with people who inspire and support them to become curious life learners who give back to their communities, and find their purpose while creating new possibilities.
