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Giving | Philanthropy | North Bennet Street School Admissions & Financial AidFull-Time ProgramsStudent Life & ResourcesContinuing EducationAlumni & CareersGivingAboutPresidential Search Student & Alumni Login ApplyRequest InfoVisitDonateContactBlog Menu Admissions & Financial AidFull-Time ProgramsStudent Life & ResourcesContinuing EducationAlumni & CareersGivingOverviewAnnual Celebration of CraftPartners in CraftShaw SocietyWorkforce DevelopmentLives & Livelihoods CampaignAboutPresidential Search Giving > Overview Admissions & Financial AidAdmissions OverviewInfo Sessions Student Life Living in BostonFinancial AidFinancial Aid OverviewTuition & FeesGrants & ScholarshipsInternational StudentsCareer CounselorsVeteransFAQsFull-Time ProgramsFull-Time Programs OverviewVideosVirtual ToursProfilesBookbindingCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesCabinet & Furniture MakingCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesCarpentryCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesJewelry Making & RepairCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesLocksmithing & Security TechnologyCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesPiano TechnologyCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesPreservation CarpentryCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesViolin Making & RepairCurriculumFacilitiesFacultyTuitionCareersProfilesStudent Life & ResourcesContinuing EducationOverview & CalendarBook Arts & BookbindingWoodworking & CarpentryJewelry MakingMusical InstrumentsAlumni & CareersOverviewProfiles in CraftCareersAlumni AssociationDistinguished Alumni AwardStudent & Alumni PortalJobs & Commissions BoardBusiness DirectoryGivingOverviewAnnual Celebration of CraftPartners in CraftShaw SocietyWorkforce DevelopmentLives & Livelihoods CampaignAboutOverviewPartnershipsHistoryPeopleEmploymentPublicationsGallery/StoreVisitContact Presidential Search GivingDonors play a crucial role in supporting the School's mission, helping to underpass the gap between tuition income and the forfeit of running a preeminent learning institution.Every souvenir matters, and helps make a difference to our community. As a donor, you help provide students with greater wangle to financial aid and help enrich their educational experience.Increasinglythan 50% of students receive some form of financial aid directly from the School, while small-value, secondary grants indulge students to participate in exhibitions, conferences, and other off-site experiences. Donors moreover ensure our facility, from its workspaces to its classrooms, offers an enhanced learning environment for students. Ways to Give Annual Fund Scholarships Legacy Giving Lives & Livelihoods Scholarship Campaign Annual Fund The Annual Fund is the cornerstone of philanthropic support at NBSS. It makes a direct, positive impact on our students’ educational experience. The Fund supports the School’s daily operations and allows us to protract meeting our upper standards of excellence plane as we grow.Annual Fund gifts go to work immediately:Providing scholarships to studentsSupplying instructors with tools and materialsSupporting efforts to promote public sensation and appreciation of traditional craftsmanshipReducing our reliance on tuition revenue, therefore keeping tuition rates as low as possibleShaw Society: Donors of $1,000 or increasingly to the Annual Fund are recognized among our most generous donors as a member of the Shaw Society. Click here for benefits and increasingly information.In wing to financial support, we moreover welcome objects, real estate, and securities as gifts to our Annual Fund. For increasingly information, please contact our Development Office. Scholarships Donating to a scholarship fund is one of the most uncontrived ways you can make a difference at NBSS. These endowed, private funds help tropical the gap between financial aid and tuition, ensuring that everyone has equal wangle to education.Through the generous support of donors, increasingly than $300,000 in scholarship grants have been awarded to students enrolled in the 2014-2015 school year. There are two scholarship funds to which you can contribute:PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP FUNDGifts to the President’s Scholarship Fund go toward scholarship grants for incoming students in the pursuit year. One hundred percent of the souvenir is given to students who meet the criteria. Current use gifts can go toward a specific program, or you can leave the visualization up to the School.THE WALTER MCDONALD SCHOLARSHIP FUNDWe established the Walter McDonald Scholarship Fund in 2007. The Fund is named without our long-time Associate Director, Walter McDonald, who over 35 years transformed NBSS from a local trade school into a nationally-recognized institution for craftsmanship and fine trades. Since 2007, we’ve raised increasingly than $700,000, including a significant matching souvenir from a generous unrecognized foundation. Today, the Fund stands at increasingly than $1.2 million. Legacy Giving A legacy souvenir is an investment in craftsmanship and our history. It ensures that our School’s educational programs protract to thrive.Providing for NBSS in your will is one of the simplest ways to support the School’s future. You’ll have the flexibility to update or update your plans if your circumstances change. There are several ways to make a bequest:You can bequeath unrepealable assets, a specific dollar amount, or a fraction or percentage of your estate.A throwback may be unrestricted, meaning the property can be used in whole or part for charitable purposes as unswayable by the Board of Directors.Or, the throwback may be left unrestricted as an endowment gift. This ways that the principal will be widow and held with the endowment. The School may use any income the endowment generates for charitable purposes.Lastly, a throwback may moreover be a restricted endowment gift. The principal is held with the endowment, and any income it generates will be used for a specific purpose, such as scholarship assistance. You should describe the purpose of your souvenir as widely as possible.You'll find some recommended language for a variety of bequests here. Please contact our Development Office surpassing making a legacy souvenir to ensure correct wording. Lives & Livelihoods Scholarship Campaign The Lives & Livelihoods Campaign goal is to triple the current upkeep for financial assistance provided to our students, permitting the School to ribbon over $1 million in scholarships each year.Click here for increasingly details and how you can make a difference. We're recognized as an Accredited Charity by the BetterMerchantryBureau, having met all 20 standards of upstanding merchantry practices. We believe in transparency, and that all donors should have wangle to information well-nigh the School, their gift, and any other relevant information. We support the Donor Bill of Rights, and our Annual Report provides a full listing of all NBSS income and expenses. Keep Craft AliveMake YourSouvenirto NBSS Today Contact the Development DepartmentMelissa Gallin, Director of Institutional Supportmgallin@nbss.edu | 617-227-0155 x175Somers Killian, Senior Development Coordinatorskillian@nbss.edu | 617-227-0155 x172 North Bennet Street School 150 North Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109 617.227.0155 info@nbss.edu Contact UsGetting Here Quicklinks Blog Posts CalendarProfilesVirtual ToursVideosTuition Payment FacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInYouTube Jobs & Commissions Board © 2018 North Bennet Street School. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Site Map Powered by Finalsite