(Securing the Promise continued)to be an accessible and diverse teacher cooperative, would lie in the financial stability that only an endowment can give.

Synergy’s financial health is sustained by three sources – tuition, fund-raising, and endowment. Thanks to Russ’ foresight, year by year, our fledgling endowment grew slowly until we launched our first campaign to double its size, from $400,000 to $800,000, in 1983. We did it. Since then it has grown to over 2 million and interest from the endowment helps to fill the gap between tuition and our costs to educate our students. But we are losing ground and the road to securing our mission lies in increasing the amount of non-tuition income in our annual budget. This is why significantly building our endowment is so important.

The math concept is simple, I say as a teacher who loved teaching math. More money begets more money. The money in our endowment is securely invested, and that investment grows over time and yields interest, some of which goes into the budget. Currently this is$90,000 or about 5%. If this campaign increases our 2 million to 4 million by the end of 1213, that $90,000 will be

$180,000. Imagine that 4 million growing to 8 million. It will, and 5% of 8 - here's the math again - is $400,000. Now that is securing our promise. I loved Synergy the minute I walked through the door into the small, shotgun school on Castro Street. Its mission spoke to everything I believe in as an educator. In the 34 years since then, we have grown and flourished and done something many schools do not – hold on to and deepen our core values.

Synergy holds a unique and important place in the world of education in the Bay Area. It is crystal clear to me that building the endowment is the key to our future.  

Save the DateCome to a celebration in honor of Arlene and 26 years of Farm

School at Deergnaw.

April 21, 2011Saturday 3 pm

atSynergy School

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Endowment FactsSynergy’s, founders started the school’s endowment when they opened the school, almost 40 years ago. The endowment is now worth about $2.3 million.

In 1996, Synergy embarked on a campaign to add the middle school and purchase the building we occupy now. By 2000, the community had raised $3 million and made that dream a reality.

Synergy’s endowment is money invested for the long term. A percentage of the endowment flows into the school’s budget every year. By setting that payout around 5 percent, the fund can continue to provide support in perpetuity.

Securing the Promise40th Anniversary Campaign

Our Goal: $2.5million Pledges & Gifts received to date:

$1.1 million

At the school picnic on September 17, parent Ronan Dunlop, a member of the development committee, with co-chair Chas Edwards, explained to the assembled families why the campaign is necessary and what it will mean for parents and alumni.

The 40th Anniversary of Synergy is next year – It’s a terrific milestone.

The funny thing about milestones is that not only do they make you realize how far you’ve come and how much has been accomplished, but they also make you reflect on the road ahead. They make you think about the 50th and 100th milestones that are to come. And we as a community have the power to help Synergy get there today.

We have the power to ensure that the only teacher coop, with the lowest tuition rate, and the highest ethnic, economic, family make-up and gender diversity in San Francisco, will be a thriving community in another 40 years’ time. We are going to do this by raising over 2 million dollars by 2013, thereby more than doubling the school’s endowment fund.

That’s a big number. But we’ve done it before. 15 years ago we raised 3 million dollars to build the school we have

today. What’s more, a lot of work has already happened these last few months and we are thrilled to say that, as of today, over 1 million dollars has already been pledged to Synergy.

That’s not all. You need know something tremendous — you need to know that Synergy’s teachers and staff are already 100% committed to the campaign. Every one who could has pledged $4,000, and everyone has pledged something. Let me repeat that. Your teachers have pledged 4,000 dollars each!

We are reaching out to everyone we know in our community: alumni, local businesses, foundations and more. We’re asking everyone we know and

some we don’t to help us reach this 2.5 million dollar goal.

And Chas and I are standing before you today to say that we’re counting on you, the current parents, to help us raise at least $150,000 and hopefully as much as $300,000.

We’ve already begun talking with a number of families to get us started with our parents’ campaign, and this fall we’ll keep going.  We, the present Synergy families, can do it with our own gifts – especially spread out over a

number of years — and with the help of our friends and relatives.

We’ve done it before, and with your help, we’ll do it again.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

“You need to know that Synergy’s teachers and staff are already 100% committed to the campaign.”

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Securing the Promise: The Parents’ Campaignby Ronan Dunlop

On October 16, Synergy’s Ecoteam held their first gardening day. Our purpose: build a garden of native California plants that will provide habitat to local butterflies. Two years of planning, researching and fundraising have resulted in a beautiful 25 square foot raised bed in Synergy’s soft yard. The workday brought 40 students and family members together to build the planter, decorate and plant pots, clean up the yard, make beaded butterflies to decorate the garden, and, finally, plant a variety of perennials in the new planter.

Since then, Ecoteam students have been watering and tending the new plants.

Ecoteam students and their families arrived eager to participate that fall Sunday with all five Ecoteam advisors on hand to help. Joan directed

volunteers to one of the several activities. Annie taught students how to transplant the small plants. Siri set up paints to decorate the pots and showed children how to make beaded butterflies and flowers that could be placed in our garden. Deirdre carried down castings from Ecoteam’s worm bin that were used to fertilize all our plantings. While the large bed was being constructed, the other adults weeded, pruned and swept around the yard. Students picked ripe apples that were later used to make a celebratory apple crisp.

After the final board was in place, everyone pitched in with wheelbarrows and shovels to fill the planter with soil and organic amendment. We sprinkled in some worm castings and transplanted carefully arranged lupines,

California daisies, asters, buckwheat, yarrow, cow parsnip, yerba buena, blue eyes, and other native California plants. While finishing touches were painted on a sign for the garden, we laid irrigation tubing, mulched and watered. As we were working that day, a butterfly flew into the science room. Tiffany brought it down to us and released it into the soft yard as a sign of butterflies to come.

The idea for the garden was inspired by another Ecoteam event, a screening of “A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW” by filmmaker and Synergy parent Kevin White. The watershed restoration project highlighted in the film began with a teacher and her students deciding to help imperiled freshwater shrimp in Sonoma County. After seeing the movie, students decided to do something to help the endangered Mission blue butterfly.

Students who are now in 7th grade began researching the basics of creating a butterfly garden and the specifics of what Mission blues need to breed and survive – both host and nectar plants. These students put this knowledge into (Continued page 5)

Butterfly Garden Comes to Lifeby Rea Inglesis, Ecoteam Advisor

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“Students decided to do something to help the endangered Mission blue butterfly.”

(Butterfly Garden continued) practice as part of our Farm School program. Arlene chose a spot near her vegetable garden and used students’ research to inform the type of plants she included there. The entire 4/5 class helped build this first Synergy butterfly garden at Deergnaw.

Back at Synergy, the Ecoteam continued their research and decided to broaden the scope of the plantings. We wanted to attract butterflies all year long. We invited a parent landscaper, Elliot Goliger, to come to one of our weekly meetings and give us advice on how to proceed. He gave us lots of advice and donated all the soil for the project.

This generosity was just one of many examples that made the butterfly garden come to life. After doing a presentation to the 4/5 class, Karen Gardner of Tuolumne River Trust offered to help us organize the project. The volunteers that joined her in helping build the garden made invaluable contributions.

The co-chair of the Green Committee, Alan Fleming, happens to be an expert on native plants and was instrumental in selecting and shopping for plants at Bay Area nurseries.

The man responsible for the lovely curved design of the garden is also our construction coordinator, Tim Barritt, a Synergy parent. Tim brought all the materials ready to assemble and all the tools needed to build the garden. He curved each recycled plastic beam in his own backyard and was a can-do leader with our volunteer crew. With help from a Sunroom student, Tim also installed the irrigation lines that will

keep our garden going. In fact, the whole community

stepped up to help make this project happen. In addition to the Ecoteam’s fundraising efforts, the garden was included in the Fund-A-Need at Synergy’s auction. We were able to pay for the building materials and plants through this fund. Lunch was generously donated by local businesses Mission Pie, Papalote’s and Muddy’s.

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Ecoteam and Synergy are grateful to the many people who contributed to the butterfly garden project. It is not just a symbol of Synergy’s commitment to the environment, but a valuable teaching tool. Students over the years will nurture and tend the garden, learn about native plants, butterflies and insects, and, hopefully, be inspired by the vision of a few students becoming a thing of beauty for all to enjoy.

“ It is not just a symbol of Synergy’s commitment to the environment, but a valuable teaching tool.”

This fall the Rainbow Room embarked on a study of communities. We focused on our own classroom community by getting to know one another, learning about the agreement system, and by receiving classroom jobs. The idea was to gain a deeper understanding of how all of us play an important role in holding our own little community together.

Our study led us to discuss our larger school community. As we walked around the building, clipboards in hand, students drew symbols to represent the classrooms on a copy of the school’s emergency map.

It seemed only natural to take our study out in the neighborhood. Before we knew it we were on a mapping expedition on Valencia Street. Again, clipboards in hand, Rainbow Room kids studied the buildings on the east side of Valencia Street from Anthony’s Cookies (well, we had to start somewhere!) all the way to Horace Mann-Buena Vista School. It was a beautiful sunny day, but quite windy. Good thing we had those clipboards to hold our papers in place!

I must say that I was impressed with the observations the Rainbow Room

students made about architecture and how many symbols they were able to find on our short walk. All the while, they were busy drawing buildings and creating symbols for each of the businesses we saw. We even visited our local produce stand and spoke to the owner about his business. He was kind enough to let the entire class roam around inside and ask him questions.

The following week, we began constructing a mural of Valencia Street. Getting the proportions right was probably the hardest part of the project, but once one or two kids started to understand the epic size of the mural,

their models became appropriately large.

Another thing that made this project challenging is that we realized that most of the buildings on Valencia Street are white or gray. How were we going to make a stunning mural made of white and gray paper? Luckily, Ezra’s mom brought in some iridescent paper to make our buildings sparkle.

Our mural really came alive when the students added people and vehicles. One of my favorite pedestrians is a dogwalker and his four or five dogs. One of the trucks driving down the street is labeled “Matt’s Foods”, a tribute to the gracious owner of Valencia Farmer’s Market.

“The idea was to gain a deeper understanding of how all of us play an important role in holding our own community together.”

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Valencia Street Mural: A Project of the Rainbow RoomBy Annie Aguirre, Rainbow Room Teacher

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In November, the Middle School Humanities class celebrated the Indian holiday of Divali, to conclude their study of Hinduism. When I came to participate, the fragrant and pungent smell of simmering lentils and spices showed me the way.

Colorful rangoli, a beautiful art form, are colorful designs traditionally made on floors of living rooms and courtyards during Hindu festivals, and are meant as sacred welcoming areas for the Hindu gods. The patterns are typically created with materials, including colored rice, dry flour, sand or even flower petals. We were going to use colored sand and do it in the passageway between the hard and soft yards. It was complicated and crowded, but Tammy’s seasoned skill kept me on target, and soon each kid found his or her own rhythm. They did some beautiful and collaborative work. There were geometric patterns, lotus-like flowers and even a Ganesh as the elephant … with sunglasses!

Meanwhile, artistry was on display upstairs: there was henna tattooing, an Indian card game, and cooking daal and naan bread. Also, each student had made a small lantern, and we

ceremonially lighted the tea lights inside.

One of the many things I find so inspiring about Synergy is the creativity and color infused into the learning process. I’m constantly inspired and impressed by the quality and scope of the curriculum. To me, just the scent of the lentil stew, wafting though the corridors, somehow touches the kids. Maybe the scent will spark an interest; maybe some day they will be in a yoga class or study Sanskrit… maybe just maybe they will learn to love Indian food and culture!

Synergy Divali CelebrationBy Darya Mead

Hurwitz Scholarshipby Connie Matthiessen

Noah Hurwitz, a longtime friend of the school, established two scholarships to help make a Synergy education possible for two students. One of Hurwitz's scholarships covers the entire K through eighth-grade tuition for one student. The second is a half scholarship that will make Synergy affordable for a middle class family who couldn't afford it otherwise. In Noah’s words:

“I feel very fortunate to give to Synergy, and through that, to give back to the community.  From the age of six to ten my family was on the receiving end of scholarships that had a positive impact on my sister and me.  It was a formative experience for me that could not have happened without the financial aid that we received. I've been on the receiving end of the equation and it's great to be able to be on the giving side. I feel very grateful to be able to give back. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time.

I have seen first-hand the positive and diverse environment that Synergy provides.  Over the years, I've gotten to know several Synergy students and they are all well-rounded, interesting individuals. I know that Synergy played a major role in guiding them, that it had a powerful influence. Kids not only get a great education at Synergy, they get a lesson in values as well, and the results are impressive.

San Francisco has many strong educational programs.  Yet I think Synergy excels in providing a great education and environment at a level of efficiency that very few other programs have. This allows for greater diversity, and also allows for scholarship programs to have a greater impact. With that thinking, my family and I created the Hurwitz scholarship.”

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Nancy and Keith Anding

Tanya Baker

Jana BarberSandy Barra & Peter Dardis

Katherine Bella & John Harris

Marilyn Bancel & Rik Myslewski

Sogolon Best & Nicole Branch

Mahala Bundy & Steve HemingerVincent Campasano & Harris Meyer

Robert Carr & Andrea LoPinto

Chevron Humankind Matching Gift Program

Danielle Conrad & Hemant Shah

Russell Curtis & Mark RussellTammy Damon & Elena Dillon

Deirdre Devine & Al Indelicato

Susanne and Joseph DeRisi

Ronan and Patty Dunlop

David Emanuel & Maria WamsleyAlan Fleming & Claudia Romero

Leslie Fleming & Kevin Wilcock

Rita Franklin

Jill Goffstein Stocks

Glenn GreenbergAmie Haiz & Eric Wilson

Michelle Hecht & Robert Redlinger

Fran Hegeler & Bruce Prescott

Rea Inglesis

Jesse Kitses

Sharon and Bob Kolbrener

Carolyn Kruse

Becky and Bruce Leighton

Alexis LimberakisCynthia Louie & Frni Beyer

Ebony and Ray Manion

Vicky Mauleon

Elizabeth McDonald & Tom Sicurella

Natham MelladoRuss Messing & Arlene Naschke

Estate of Wilma Messing

Judy and Paul Minton

Melanie Moore

Linda Parker & Greg PenningtonJoan Pettijohn

Eliza Robertson & Richard Lawler

Teresa and Carlos Rodriguez

Laurel Schultz & Paul Linde

Jane and Tom SingerSonya and Melvin Smith

Tiffany Tai

Pat Tokunaga & Jeff Moad

Samantha Tripodi & Matt Rolandson

Jill and John WalshKevin White & Annamarie Faro

Carolyn Wilson Koerschen & William New

LeRoy Wise  

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Securing the Promise 40th Anniversary Campaign

Thank you!

Synergy School2010 - 2011 Annual Report

Financial Report 2010-11 Giving

Endowment $ 233,952 Annual Fund $ 147,209Auction $ 88,200CSF Beach Clean-up $ 33,515Hurwitz Scholarship $ 22,200Scrip/Other $ 9,692

Total Giving $ 534,768

Revenues & Expenses

Revenues

Tuition /Fees $ 2,813,859 Fundraising $ 534,768Endowment Allocation $ 90,000Interest Income $ 9,000

Total Income $ 3,447,659

Expenses

Salaries & Benefits $ 1,897,600Financial Aid $ 571,825Program $ 545,124Operating Reserves $ 302,495

Total Expenses $ 3,317,044

Investment in Endowment $ 302,495

Investment in Plant & Equipment $ 30,000

Endowment $ 2,325,632

Gifts and Pledges to the Campaign

Synergy School 2010-11 Annual Report

Gifts to the Synergy Annual Fund

We are grateful for the generosity of our donors who helped to raise $147,209 for the Synergy Annual Fund in 2010-11. Our Board participation in Annual Fund was 100 %, and Synergy families’ participation was 87%.

Thank you for your support.

Ways to Give to Synergy SchoolSynergy School is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and gifts are tax deductible to the

extent allowed by the law. Donations are accepted in the following ways:

Mail your donation to:

Development OfficeSynergy School

1387 Valencia StSan Francisco, CA 94110

Donate online or download a pledge card

at www.synergyschool.org

Gifts of appreciated securities are gladly accepted. For more information, please

contact Liz McDonald at 415 567-6177 orliz@synergyschool.org

Many employers have a matching gift

program that allows an employee’s gift to be matched by 1:1. Ask your employer about

their matching gift guidelines.

For more information about including Synergy School in your estate plans, please

contact Liz McDonald.

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Parents

Synergy School 2010-11 Annual Report

Board of Trustees

AnonymousJackie Adams & Jessica MassAngie Aldana & Sherman ChinKent AndersonLisa Pooley & Rebecca BarmoreValerie Barth & Peter WileyLaura & Emmett BergmanStaci Boden & Alex GologorskyKathy Brennessel

Barbara Brewer & Benson FongCarolyn Brown & Michael ButlerEllen BrunoMolly Burke & Mike ValanPatricia & Julio CaballeroLaura Cashion & Michael HunterChristina Castillo & David SchottElizabeth & Benjamin CeaserAlice ChanDoug ChanAlisa & Darrick ClaytonRussell Curtis & Mark RussellHilary & Ronald DavisJennifer & Mitsuo DeBerryColleen DonovanMarian Doub & Bob ThawleyAudrey Driver & David BoltonErica & Jim DyquistoCynthia EagletonPavlina Eccless & Dar GreenbergTawanna EdwardsJeannette Eisen-OnderdonkSusana Eisen & Vincent WilliamsKeesje Fischer & Steven HorowitzJesse FrancisJames FreemanBianca GalladoraBarbara Gallios & Richard WooAnnelise Goldberg & Aaron RolandCarla Gomez & Sandy FeinlandCat Gratz & Tim BarrittBeth Grossman & Storrs HoenEthel GuevaraSara HassonJ. Daniell HebertRachel Heit & Michael MagnusonMary June HernandezJill & Rem HoffmannSarah Holcombe & Eric WeaverBrenda & Andrew HopewellHeidi HowellValentina Imbeni & Andrew IoannouJoanne & Brian JenningsStacey KaydenBohdanna Kesala & Jason YurasekJenny & David KielyAnton Krukowski & Inga DavisKim & Matthew Krummel

Sylvia KundigAlexis LimberakisJacqui LumerMary Lee MackichanMitra & Faramarz MahdaviGail Mallimson & Elliot GoligerConstance MatthiessenDarya Mead & Douglas CrawfordAlison Kim & Christiane MedinaTrudi Michael & Bruce ColeIlsa & Tony MillerRenata & Alex MillerSusan MiznerElizabeth & Tom MorniniJim Neiss & Marvin Segar de CortezClare & Abner NolanShulee Ong & Lori LaiKathryn & Ed OsawaSumi Paik & Alejandro GutierrezAndrea Palash & Jessica Watson In memory of

Mari F. PalashSimon PargeterMaggie PerkinsElisha PratherJulie and James RiceCynthia Rickert & Michie WongMaria Rogers Pascual & Josh KarlinerDerek Rosenfield & Jenna SchottJessica RoybalTara RyeMaria Sanchez & Domagoj VucicRisa SandlerElizabeth Sandoval-Holland & Safalo HollandDanya & Con ShegoleffLyn Shimizu & Silvia CastellanosAlys & Dan ShinElizabeth SilverCatherine Singstad & Seth DickermanRob Tan & Richard SmithLissa Soep & Chas EdwardsDaniel Angel & Kevin SouzaShannon Thyne & Christopher BenitezCandice & Russell TillittJoAnn Triolo In Memory of Anna AlfieriSamantha Tripodi & Matt RolandsonAya & Ansel Van ZandtThaai Walker & Michael SusorChris Wheaton

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Tanya BakerJana BarberSandy Barra & Pete DardisMahala Bundy & Steve HemingerVincent Campasano & Harris MeyerKatherine CzesakTammy Damon & Elena DillonPatty & Ronan DunlopDavid Emanuel & Maria WamsleyAlan Fleming & Claudia RomeroLeslie Fleming & Kevin WilcockRita FranklinJill Goffstein StocksAmie Haiz & Eric WilsonMichelle Hecht & Robert RedlingerFran Hegeler & Bruce PrescottRea InglesisJesse KitsesCarolyn KruseCynthia Louie & Frni BeyerEbony & Raymond ManionVicky MauleonElizabeth McDonald & Tom SicurellaNatham MelladoRuss Messing & Arlene NaschkeJudy & Paul MintonMelanie MooreLinda Parker & Greg PenningtonJoan PettijohnEliza Robertson & Richard LawlerTeresa & Carlos RodriguezNia RossLaurel Schultz & Paul LindeTiffany TaiPat Tokunaga & Jeff MoadKevin White & Annamarie Faro

Gifts to the Annual Fund

Synergy School 2009-10 Annual Report

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Alumni & Alumni Parents

Foundations & Corporations

Clorox Company FoundationJewish Community Endowment Fund

St. Francis Lutheran Church

The Swig Foundation

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Kevin Kennedy, LLCOracle Corporation

Visa GivingStation

Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign

Frances White & Steve Oddo

Clare Whitlam

Tracy Wong

Greg Yachuk

Brenda Yang & Kevin TsurutomeJinoos Yazdany & Arash Anoshiravani

Diane Zacher & Howard Gelman

Lorena Zertuche & Jorge Martinez

Janet Arnesty & John Good

Marilyn Bancel & Rik Myslewski

Cheryl Barth

Carol & Michael Blecker

Ricki Boden & Andrea LyonsRobert Carr & Andrea LoPinto

Eugene Cash

Susan Caston In memory of Michael Schweizer

Janis Cooke NewmanJulie Graham & Candace Thille In Honor of

Sairus & Spencer Graham-Thille

Donna Guyot Johnson

Estella Habal & Hilton Obenzinger

Gail Fratar KesslerLinda Marietta

Jessica & Eric Metoyer

Kim Ridinger & Nancy Healey

Lois Scott & Bernie Choden

Sol SolomonChristine & Lane Tanner

Helen Wood

Grandparents and Friends

Ruta Allen In honor of Annabel & Sanders Tillitt

Frances Bowes

Theresa Bruno

Joan Campagna & Alan Markle

Katherine CarrollKathleen & Greg Cartine In Honor of Katherine

Czesak

Larry Chazen

Beatrice Coxhead & Gerald Anderson

Patricia Dinner In Honor of Steve Grand-JeanNancy and Jim Edwards In Memory of John

F. Devlin

David Gast In honor of Tammy & Elena

Steve Grand-Jean

Glenn H. GreenbergNoel and Terry Hefty

Beverly Hines

Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch

Ellen Joy

Adela & Joel KarlinerLeslee & Lewis Levey

L.H. Linde

Bonnie Mackenzie & Art Tressler

Mr. & Mrs. G.C. Matthiessen

Tessa McDonaldRichard Mead

Jake Messing In Honor of Wilma Messing

Carolyn Michel & Howard Millman In Honor of Russ Messing

Donors who made gifts to the school between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011 are listed in this annual report. We have tried to provide accurate and complete information for this report. Our apologies for any names omitted or listed incorrectly. Please contact the Director of Development, Liz McDonald, to correct any records.

Thank you

Staff & Former Staff

Deirdre Devine & Al IndelicatoSiri Scull

Sonya & Melvin Smith

Carolyn Wilson Koerschen & William New

LeRoy Wise

Diane Ventre & Mitch Genser

Shirley & Howard Miller In Honor of Emily Miller

Ruth and Ed Mortenson In Honor of Anabella Mortenson

Mary Nee In honor of Harriet DamonMr. John S. Osterweis

Mrs. Dorothy Redlinger

Cecile & Bernard Silver

John Schulz, D.D.S.

Shonni Silverberg & John ShapiroCarolyn Zecca Ferris In Honor of Steve

Grand-Jean

The Annual Fund helps to bridge the gap between tuition and the actual cost of educating a student at Synergy School for a full year.The support we receive from our community of parents, friends, alumni and grandparents helps Synergy to maintain the strength of our program while keeping our tuition affordable and offering financial aid more than a third of our community.

Every gift counts. It’s not too late to contribute to the fund.

If you have any questions about donations, please contact Liz McDonald, Director of Development, at liz@synergyschool.org.

Synergy Annual Fund

The mission of Synergy School is to provide a quality education by empowering children to flourish academically, to blossom as individuals, and to become self-confident, creative learners.

Synergy School was founded in 1973 and is a non-profit teacher cooperative, wherein students, parents, and teachers cooperate together to further a rewarding education for each child. We are a vibrant, diverse community with 190 students in kindergarten through eighth grade located in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Synergy Times is published twice a year by Liz McDonald, Director of Development of Synergy School. Feedback and story ideas are welcome.Editor: Jenna SchottDesign: Sam TripodiPhotography: Russ Curtis, Rea Inglesis,Annie Aguirre, Darya Mead

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