Annual Giving is the primary and most critical fundraising priority at Harvard-Westlake School. If you make one gift to the school each year, please make it to Annual Giving. Comprising roughly 11% of the school’s operating budget, Annual Giving dollars are purely unrestricted and therefore impact every corner of Harvard-Westlake’s campuses, from financial aid to faculty professional development, academics to athletics, technology to the arts. Annual Giving is also representative of Harvard-Westlake’s diverse and inclusive community in that thousands of families across varied backgrounds make gifts of all sizes to Annual Giving each year. Each of them makes a significant impact on our school.
For additional information, please contact Director of Annual Giving Katrina Sprague at ksprague@hw.com.
To sustain Harvard-Westlake’s excellence, the school must provide the resources necessary to attract and educate the most talented students across Los Angeles, regardless of their families’ ability to afford tuition. With an annual financial aid budget of more than $11 million, 20% of Harvard-Westlake students (about 300 students) receive financial aid annually. Harvard-Westlake’s financial aid package is comprehensive, accounting for all of the extra costs beyond tuition—such as bus fare, athletic uniforms, and travel—to make sure all students have access to the same educational experiences at Harvard-Westlake. President Rick Commons’s goal is to increase the percentage of students receiving aid to 25% in the next decade, which makes new investments in financial aid essential to building for the future.
You can make an impact on Harvard-Westlake’s financial aid program by creating a restricted fund for student financial assistance:
- Named Scholar Endowment: $750,000
This fund endows the equivalent of a full tuition for one student in perpetuity.
- Named Immediate Impact Fund: $300,000
This fund fully supports current-use tuition and fees for a student for the six-year period while that student is enrolled.
- Named Student Assistance Fund: $100,000
This fund endows all the extra costs beyond tuition to educate a Harvard-Westlake student receiving financial aid in perpetuity.
For more information about creating an endowed fund for financial aid, please contact Director of Major Gifts Jim Pattison at jpattison@hw.com.
At the heart of Harvard-Westlake, talented faculty and staff who are experts in their fields inspire curiosity and are committed to helping every student grow academically, socially, and personally. For Harvard-Westlake to recruit, retain, and support such extraordinarily talented educators, significant financial investment is a necessity. Donors who wish to support great teaching and coaching at Harvard-Westlake with a gift to the school may do so by supporting faculty salaries or professional development.
Faculty Salary Endowed Funds
You can help the school to maintain its compensation and benefits package so it can strengthen its allure and aggressively recruit superior faculty and staff candidates via one of the following funds:
- Named Endowed Faculty Chair: $2,000,000
- Named Endowed Senior Faculty Laureate: $750,000
- Named Endowed Junior Faculty Laureate: $250,000
Faculty Development Endowed Funds
These funds encourage lifelong learning by enabling faculty and staff to attend seminars and conferences, pursue advanced degrees, and seize travel-study opportunities during the summer.
For more information about creating an endowed fund for faculty support, please contact Director of Major Gifts Jim Pattison at jpattison@hw.com.
We also offer opportunities to establish an endowed fund to support specific student programs at Harvard-Westlake. Examples of such funds include the Brown Family Distinguished Speakers Fund, which provides an honorarium for notable lecturers and performers to visit Harvard-Westlake, or the Film Festival Endowed Fund, which provides annual funding for the WestFlix Film Festival, a premiere showcase for student filmmakers across California organized by Harvard-Westlake students. Named opportunities also exist to endow academic departments such as Visual Arts, Performing Arts, or Athletics, each of which is valued at $1,000,000 or more.
For more information about establishing endowed funds for program support, please contact Director of Major Gifts Jim Pattison at jpattison@hw.com.