Support Our Mission
When you give to BES, you help us ensure that all children have access to quality education and a future filled with opportunity.
Excellent schools need excellent leaders.
For 25 years, BES has prepared leaders to transform education in their communities. When you invest in BES, your generous donation helps us continue this work and build what’s next for students everywhere. Help us:
Sustain a robust pipeline of talented, committed school leaders.
Support schools founded by BES leaders to grow and replicate.
Change the lives of more and more students, year after year.
Where does your gift go?
Whether you give $250 or $250,000, or more, every donation helps us move closer to our goals. Explore our tiered options below to find the level that’s right for you, and discover featured examples of the meaningful impact your generosity can have.
The giving levels below illustrate the impact of a gift made to BES. If a program is fully funded, we may use your gift for related work that will go towards the same goal of preparing leaders to transform education in their communities.
building donor.
$1 – $99,999
$2,400 – Invest in the professional development of a school leader to receive impactful training and hands-on learning through our Leadership Intensive program.
$3,500 – Equip a BES Fellow with the training, expertise, and peer network to design a high-quality school from the ground up.
$30,000 – Bring a new school to life for families in its community through a year of dedicated launch support for its founding leader.
$90,000 – Ensure a new school thrives for generations of students by supporting its founding leader through their first three years of planning and operation.
building donor.
$1 – $99,999
$2,400 – Invest in the professional development of a school leader to receive impactful training and hands-on learning through our Leadership Intensive program.
$3,500 – Equip a BES Fellow with the training, expertise, and peer network to design a high-quality school from the ground up.
$30,000 – Bring a new school to life for families in its community through a year of dedicated launch support for its founding leader.
$90,000 – Ensure a new school thrives for generations of students by supporting its founding leader through their first three years of planning and operation.
excelling donor.
$100,000 – $299,999
$100,000 – Stand behind a school founder and help to cover their grant and healthcare cost that will fuel them to persist and focus on the important work of building a high-quality school.
sustaining donor.
$300,000 and above
$310,000 – Fuel the design of a transformative school that will change trajectories for generations to come by supporting the full journey of a school founder in the BES Fellowship Build track. This will equip the founder with one year of training and coaching as well as three years of School Launch Support.
$513,000 – Fuel the design of a transformative school that will change trajectories for generations to come by supporting the full journey of a school founder in the BES Fellowship Community Co-Design track. This will equip the founder with two years of training and coaching as well as three years of School Launch Support.
Nearly 3,000 school leaders trained.
220+ schools founded by BES Fellows in 22 states
75,000+ students impacted
Contact
Email us at partners@bes.org
Ways to donate to BES:
- By PayPal, Credit Card, or Debit Card
- By Check
- By Phone
- By Stock or Wire Transfer
- By Qualified Charitable Distribution
- Legacy Giving
