Hall 175: About

The Hall 175 Campaign encourages our alumni, families, and friends – as well as foundations and corporate sponsors – to focus on securing the future of Calvert Hall College.

Since 1845, Calvert Hall has established a reputation for excellence in education. Proud of our ability to anticipate our students' needs in an ever-changing world, we look to build the resources required to advance our mission going forward. The imperative is to take strategic steps to ensure we remain one of the leading Catholic college prep schools in the country. What this means is that the chief objective of our $28M campaign is sustainability.

One of the principal findings in our recently completed strategic plan is that our capacity to advance our mission and vision depends on growing our endowment. It currently stands at $21.5M. The endowment’s earnings help support important programs and initiatives. The donors who have helped build the endowment to its present level have blessed Calvert Hall by their generosity.

Our goal for this campaign is to build the endowment from $12M (FY17) to $31.5M.

A bold goal? Yes.

But we believe this objective is reasonable and within our capacity to achieve. Many of our neighboring independent schools have endowments much larger than the level we wish to reach in this campaign. Growing the endowment will help us maintain a vitally important competitive edge among schools in the region.

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Endowment Growth

Not that many years ago, we were offering our students $1.0M in scholarship funds. Today, our total annual commitment to tuition assistance and merit scholarships is $5.5M, with most of these funds coming from annual operational resources. In the Lasallian tradition, Calvert Hall strives to offer our educational experience to students without regard to financial circumstances. We pride ourselves on our diversity – economic, social, racial, and religious. We are committed to providing the many opportunities we offer to all students who seek a Calvert Hall education.

With a larger endowment, we would be better positioned to sustain our scholarship funds in the years ahead.

Looking at our current student body, 50 percent of Calvert Hall students receive some level of tuition assistance. Our goal in this campaign is to secure $10.8M in named endowed scholarships for needs-based tuition assistance. With these new funds, we will be better positioned to meet the financial needs of many more students.

At Calvert Hall, we appreciate the value and importance of recognizing academic excellence and leadership. For this reason, we also look to move our merit-based scholarships from our annual operating budget to an endowment supported fund. A $3.7M fund will help support Calvert Hall’s commitment to merit-based scholarships as we go forward.

Ensuring that we have the resources to sustain our outstanding faculty is another goal for this campaign. Long-tenured faculty are a hallmark at Calvert Hall. We are blessed with faculty Calvert Hall 175 members who believe that their work here is a mission-driven vocation.

We need sufficient resources to recruit outstanding teachers – and, to retain them. Local public school teachers are earning 20-to-25 percent more than our veteran faculty members. We need to close the gap.

We look to add five Distinguished Chairs, at the $500,000 level for each chair. These endowed Chairs will support stipends to recognize outstanding teachers.

Also, a new $2.5M Endowment for Moderators & Coaches will fund larger stipends for faculty members who work with students in our 60 extra-curricular activities and 40 athletic teams.

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Hall 175 Contacts

For more information about Calvert Hall 175, please contact Joe Baker '76, Director of Advancement at bakerj@calverthall.com or 410-825-4266 x163

For more information about major gifts and planned giving, please contact Tom Malstrom '84, Major Gifts & Planned Giving Officer, at malstromt@calverthall.com or 410-825-4266 x147

For more information about Calvert Hall's annual giving program, The Hall Fund, please contact Doug Heidrick '89, Director of Annual Giving, at heidrickd@calverthall.com or 410-825-4266 x167

For more information about the parent campaign, please contact Nichole Regulski, Donor Relations & Community Engagement Officer, at regulskin@calverthall.com or 410-825-4266 x192

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Hall 175: About

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