Named Special Gift Opportunities

A number of special major gift opportunities are made available for specific projects that serve to enhance the educational experience of our children at JPPS-Bialik. Whether it involves facility enhancements or investments in scholarships, bursaries or awards, or technological upgrades to keep JPPS-Bialik up to speed, the focus is always on the students and providing them with opportunities to help them reach their full potential. We know well that the physical environment has a direct impact on the educational process. A well-designed, pleasing-to-the-eye environment can help stimulate and support teaching, whereas a poorly designed or shabby school can inhibit learning.

Endowed Scholarships, Bursaries and Awards

Donors may elect to name scholarships, bursaries, or awards after themselves; celebrate the achievements of a friend, colleague, teacher; or remember a loved one by naming a scholarship, bursary or award in his or her honour. While the intentions of all past naming agreements will be honoured, from now on, the minimum required for naming endowed scholarships, bursaries and awards are outlined below:

A minimum gift of $10,000 is required to endow a named prize or award,
$25,000 for a named bursary and
$40,000 for a named scholarship.

An endowment is perpetual, and only a portion of the growth will be used in order to ensure the present value of the capital in the future. Bursaries and scholarships provide important financial aid to help offset tuition costs for those students who might otherwise not be able to attend JPPS-Bialik. This ensures that JPPS-Bialik remains inclusive and accessible to as diverse a student population as possible—as it has in the past—in spite of rising costs. The founders of JPPS-Bialik believed in the right of every Jewish child to receive a Jewish education. It’s all about our heritage.

Named Endowment Funds are recorded in the “Book of Honour” that is displayed in the lobby of our JPPS campus, on our Web site, and in the Annual Report.