The Country School Parents' Association (CSPA) organizes several fundraising activities each year that raise money for many of the extras that make the educational experience here at The Country School so rich and varied. These activites include the Rummage Sale, Fall and Spring Book Fairs, Flower Market, and the Auction. In many independent schools these items would be funded out of the general operating budget or tagged on after tuition as extra costs to the family. Here at The Country School we include these extras for all students.
The CSPA provides or has funding for the following:
- Artists-in-Residence
- Assemblies
- Athletics*
- Back-to-School Supplies for Every Student
- Cougar Literary Review
- CSPA Welcome Coffee
- Field Trips
- Graduation Decorations
- Holiday Breakfast
- Ice Machine for Field House
- Library Fund*
- Lower School Nature Presentations
- Lower School Poet-in-Residence
- New Parents' Reception
- Outdoor Education
- Parent Education Speaker
- Room Parent Fund
- Scoreboard
- Small Projects Fund for Teachers
- Teacher Appreciation Luncheon
- Teacher Enrichment
- First Strings Program
- Two Playgrounds
- Upper School Drama*
- Visiting Authors Program
- Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon
- Web Site
*Indicates Partial Funding
The CSPA also supports many other worthy initiatives at the school, which include:
- contributes 10 percent of its net proceeds each year to the endowment
- made a contribution of $100,000 to the Cornerstones for Tomorrow Campaign for Endowment and Capital Improvements
- purchased new Apple computers, mobile carts for wireless laptops, and related software with FUND-A-NEED donations and through a CSPA designated fund.
- funded several scholarships during the 2009-10 and the 2010-11 school years.