Excel Academy offers multiple ways to make a gift that will support our efforts and vision of ensuring all students who come through our door, regardless of background or educational level, graduate prepared for college and beyond.
To make a multi-year pledge, a gift through your donor-advised fund, if you have questions, or would like to meet to discuss giving to Excel Academy, please contact Arthur Kaynor at akaynor@excelacademy.org.
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Credit/Debit Card: It’s easy to make a secure credit card gift online! It will take less than two minutes – we promise!
Click here to make a gift to Excel Academy through a donor-advised fund today!
Mail: If you would prefer to make a gift by mail, please contact Arthur Kaynor at akaynor@excelacademy.org. Our mailing address is:
Friends of Excel Academy
58 Moore Street
East Boston, MA 02128
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Excel Academy is always in need of age-appropriate books that we can provide in the classroom and loan to students over the summer. We have set up an Amazon Wish List that makes it easy to purchase books for Excel.
To purchase a book or books, please visit our Wish List by clicking here. (Please note that if possible, three copies of each book is preferred as we have three different middle schools. But all donations are appreciated!)
Friends of Excel Academy is proud to be a GuideStar Exchange Gold Participant.
We raise money because we believe every child deserves access to a high-quality public school in their neighborhood that prepares them for college. Excel’s schools have re-defined what it means to be an urban public school for low-income students. Your support maintains our excellence and helps us to dream about the future of maintaining a model that is among the best public schools in the United States.
Why Give to Excel?
Excel Academy is a publicly funded network of charter public schools. Like all public schools, a significant majority of our budget is provided by the State through its per-pupil tuition reimbursement policy. However, there are three areas where philanthropy makes a huge difference at Excel and where donors’ gifts have a huge impact where there is a funding gap —
- When we launch schools, we add one grade to the school per year. Because of this, we operate with an annual operating deficit until our schools are fully enrolled with all seats filled. Once we are at full enrollment we are sustainable on public funding.
Your gift supports our growth into a larger network of schools serving more students who deserve an Excel Academy education.
- Charter public schools do not have access to public buildings to operate their schools. When we purchase or build a new building to house a school, we have to privately fund the down payment and the long-term financing of the building. Excel owns four buildings, including our newest building for our first school in Rhode Island. Private fundraising is needed to meet Excel’s up-front commitment to make these building projects a reality.
Your gift supports our investment in educational facilities that are learning laboratories for our students.
- Excel Academy has many differentiators to talk about. One of those is our College Access and Post-Secondary Success team. This eight-person team provides services that no other school network of our size invests in. From the time our students leave middle school in 8th grade, they are followed, counseled, and supported by our team of professionals who do everything that is necessary to ensure those students graduate from high school and are on a positive post-secondary path. It’s a game-changer of a program, and it’s a mission-critical investment for Excel that is important to us meeting our goals of closing the opportunity gap for low-income students.
