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2025 is Our Year!
2025 is Our Year!2025 is Our Year!
We have the opportunity to pay off the loan on our school building this year, which will allow us to raise teacher salaries and secure the financial future of the school for years to come. This has been a collective dream that began more than 25 years ago when Raleigh Charter opened its doors, and it can become a reality now – but only with your help!
Our founders envisioned a school where experienced, talented, caring teachers would provide excellent education and a supportive learning environment to a student body of citizen-learners. Their original vision relied on high-quality educators, and included compensating faculty at a level that adequately reflects their years of experience and dedication to our students and our school. Our teachers are at the heart of everything we do. Their hard work and steadfast commitment to our students and our school are the foundation of all we have accomplished and all we endeavor to accomplish in the future. Unfortunately, many of our experienced faculty members are being compensated at a level that is lower than what they could make teaching in a traditional local public school.
This is our year to come together as a community to improve this reality for our teachers. The loan on our building is due at the end of 2025. Rather than renegotiate our loan at what will certainly be a significantly higher interest rate than our current terms, we are dedicated to paying it off. A few years ago, we set out to raise $1.5 million to eliminate our mortgage expense, and our community has already generously contributed $550,000 toward this effort. We have $950,000 left to raise! With the end of our loan term in sight, please donate now.
If you would like to discuss opportunities to partner with RCHS in this effort, please contact us. We are excited about this opportunity!
El 4 de abril de 2017, muchos miembros de nuestra comunidad se unieron para ayudarnos a lanzar nuestra nueva iniciativa, el Fondo de la Fundación. Durante esta reunión, revisamos nuestra historia y la creciente necesidad de un vehÃculo de recaudación de fondos adicional más allá del Fondo Phoenix para ayudarnos a enfrentar algunos de los desafÃos difÃciles que enfrenta nuestra escuela y enfrentará en los próximos años.
Apoyar el Fondo de la Fundación es una forma adicional para que nuestras familias apasionadas, actuales y anteriores, y nuestros ex alumnos, ayuden a alcanzar nuestro objetivo a largo plazo de compensar de manera competitiva a nuestra facultad dedicada y asegurar nuestro edificio.
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If you would like to discuss opportunities to partner with RCHS in this effort, please contact Margaret Barnett, Director of Development, at mbarnett@raleighcharterhs.org.
1999: A group of visionary parents and educators founded Raleigh Charter High School, and we opened our doors at Pilot Mill on Haynes Street.
2009: After a decade of rising rental costs, our school leadership determined that it was time to find a permanent home for our school. The RCHS Foundation was established to help with the process of purchasing a building and securing the long-term financial stability of the school. Through a major capital campaign,our community raised over two million towards the purchase of the building. This included an incredible one million dollar anonymous gift.
2011: RCHS moved to its permanent location at 1307 Glenwood Avenue. This move was made possible by our community’s generous financial support as well as hundreds of hours of volunteer work.
2017: We introduced the Foundation Fund to serve as a fundraising vehicle for our goals and aspirations beyond the Phoenix Fund. Gifts to the Foundation Fund support two primary goals: steadily and sustainably increasing teacher salaries and maintaining our school building for the long term. Since its inception, current and past families have provided tremendous support to the Foundation Fund in recognition of our teachers and in appreciation of the education we provide.
Spring 2020: During the extreme anxiety and uncertainty of the pandemic, we received a gift that has truly accelerated our progress towards these goals. This anonymous $2 million gift brought us up to a new level where our goals are within reach.
2021: Reinvigorated by this amazing gift, we launched a special initiative for the Foundation: The Foundation Campaign is focused on raising $1.5 million – the amount needed to pay off the building and free up funds for our teachers.
As of January 2025, in addition to steady support of the annual Phoenix Fund, our community has already raised $550,000 for the Foundation Campaign. We need your help to raise the remaining $950,000 to finish the campaign, pay off our loan, and achieve our forever dream of increasing teacher compensation.
Para donaciones al Phoenix Fund, dirija su donación a Raleigh Charter High School (Identificación fiscal federal: 56-2121381)
Para donaciones al Fondo de la Fundación, dirija su donación a la Fundación de la Escuela Secundaria Charter de Raleigh (Identificación fiscal federal: 26-4266980).