Germantown Friends School recently launched a $40 million campaign to help support a new 40,000-square-foot campus project, scholarships, educational programming, and more, writes Lisa Dukart for the Philadelphia Business Journal. 

This marks the school’s largest-ever public fundraising campaign for the 178-year-old institution and its first in two decades. 

So far, the school has raised $27 million of its $40 million goal. 

The new campaign is called “Picture This,” and focuses on four key areas: the ongoing development of the All-School Commons and Center for the Arts, its financial accessibility endowment, community education programs, and the school’s annual fund.

“With this campaign, we want to demonstrate to our community that we can do this all together, especially since they haven’t experienced an outward facing campaign,” said Germantown Friends Head of School Dana Weeks.

When the All-School Commons and Center for the Arts is completed, it will serve as a space that brings students, faculty, staff, parents and members of the community together. 

Half of the project is adaptive reuse of the current Smith Gym, with the other half being new construction.

“We needed this space that literally everybody in the community could either pass through or stop and stay,” Weeks said. 

Read more about Germantown Friends School’s latest campaign to benefit students and the community at the Philadelphia Business Journal.

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