The Campaign for Madeira All The Difference, the Campaign for Madeira

Madeira has a long-held tradition of forward thinking and setting new standards in the education of girls. That tradition continues with the school’s campaign, which reaffirms the importance of an all-girls education, strengthens the impact of Madeira, and ensures that nothing is off limits to a Madeira girl.

Your generous support of these five campaign priorities makes all the difference.

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Residential Life

Better Facilities, Better Experiences

The Madeira experience encompasses much more than our excellent academics. Madeira is committed to providing residential facilities that match the excellence of our academic offerings. These residential initiatives will make it easier for all of our students to participate fully in the Madeira community and forge lifelong friendships.

Expanding community spaces. Extending the adult presence. Enriching campus life.

Modernized dorms and a vibrant campus play a critical role in recruiting bright, motivated students, ensuring their comfort and well being, and remaining competitive with other leading boarding schools.

Learning at Madeira encompasses much more than classroom activities. Through dorm experiences, extracurricular activities, and weekend programs, every Madeira girl benefits from an enriching, around-the clock education.

Along with our work inside the dorm spaces, Madeira has committed to infrastructure improvements, including the installation of a new geothermal heating and cooling system and technology improvements. Additionally, we have completed the hardscaping and landscaping of our iconic Oval.

$42m

RAISED TO DATE
For Residential Life Initiative
$42m Goal

In the first phase of the Campaign, we completed work on three dormitories. Now we look to complete two more. The renovations create contemporary rooms and bathrooms, with inviting communal space for community building, while preserving the buildings’ character and charm.

We are adding new faculty apartments, increasing the number of adults and types of families that can live in the dorms.

Your support ensures that all boarding students have the opportunity to live in renovated spaces and keeps Madeira competitive in attracting students.

Steam

Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning

Madeira students need to navigate a world where the rate of change means education must prepare girls both in jobs that exist today and in those that have not yet been discovered. Education must link abstract concepts with practical applications. Academic space requires maximum flexibility to support an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach.

The new Center will transform our campus in support of a forward-thinking, interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning.

Experiential learning is especially important in the STEAM disciplines, where a hands-on approach enables students to understand complex ideas and make connections between abstract concepts and real-world applications.

New interdisciplinary space with leading-edge technology enables students and faculty to explore new challenges, and positions Madeira at the vanguard of 21st century education, including a true 3D Maker Space.

With today’s project-based learning, teachers are not confined to a single classroom. The flexible spaces reconfigure the way teachers educate and students learn. Today’s workspace integrates multiple disciplines and teachers in a single shared space, which allows for maximum collaboration and transfer of ideas.

$20.2m

RAISED TO DATE
For Steam Initiative
$26m Goal

This new academic space will transform learning on our campus. The facility provides 30,000 square feet of technologically advanced space over three floors, yet fits beautifully into Madeira’s iconic landscape.

Designed to meet LEED standards for environmental sustainability, the building features flexible spaces for both individual and collaborative interdisciplinary learning experiences and inspires new directions.

Your support ensures that Madeira is positioned at the forefront of innovative interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

Co-Curriculum

Madeira’s Signature Differentiator

Madeira celebrated the 50th anniversary of Co-Curriculum in 2017. We want to remember not only how much the program has accomplished over the years, but also how much it will accomplish for generations to come. Co-Curriculum prepares girls in both the classroom and in the real world.

Endowing the Co-Curriculum Program affirms our commitment to prepare girls in experiential settings beyond the classroom.

Madeira recently created the Next Generation Society to preserve and strengthen the School’s signature program for future generations of Madeira girls. Learn more and join today.

Imagine being offered a menu of around 300 internships in fields that include business, education, visual and performing arts, social sciences, law, communications, and technology. Which would you choose?

Capitol Hill internships in the offices of senators and representatives are a hallmark of the junior year at Madeira. Direct exposure to the legislative process and to “real life work” has been the reason that Madeira girls graduate with a solid resume that rivals that of most college students.

Service is one of the pillars of Madeira’s founding, and the sophomore Co-Curriculum is grounded in it. In a girl’s first off-campus internship experience, she will explore her connection to her local community and the concepts of social responsibility and civic engagement.

$1.7m

RAISED TO DATE
For Co-Curriculum Initiative
$5m Goal

50 years of unique internships has produced a legion of young women who personify the brilliance, value and strength of the Madeira program.

Investing in the endowment of Co-Curriculum ensures the future of all Madeira students receiving these one-of-a-kind experiences.

Your support ensures this life-changing experiential learning program continues for future Madeira students.

Athletics

Raising the Bar for Excellence

We’re building new athletic facilities that rival our academic excellence. A new organic turf field brings competitiveness, safety, and pride to Madeira athletics.

To stay competitive among our peer schools and provide our student-athletes with an elite experience, Madeira installed a new organic turf field.

With an eye toward safety, quality and sustainability, Madeira installed a new tournament-sized field that also has the flexibility to convert into two individual practice fields.

Madeira is one of only a handful of high schools in the country to feature a turf field with the newest, technically-advanced infill materials. The field has already become a celebrated spot on campus for athletic events and community gathering.

As Madeira continues to excel in its academic leadership, we must also reaffirm our dedication to deliver robust athletic programming supported by state-of-the-art facilities. An enhanced facility allows for a strengthened community, fostering leadership and relationship building across grade levels.

$2m

RAISED TO DATE
For Athletics Initiative
$2m Goal

To stay competitive among peer schools and provide our student-athletes with an elite experience, the School financed the installation of a new organic turf field.

We must continue to raise money toward funding the field to support the financial sustainability of Madeira.

Your support ensures continued competitiveness and success for our student-athletes.

Madeira Fund

An Immediate Impact

Gifts to The Madeira Fund help balance the budget and are crucial in helping the school meet our short-term annual needs. Recruiting a wonderful new teacher. Producing a theatrical performance. Scholarships. Athletic uniforms. Books. Classroom technology. Annual giving provides for an educational atmosphere that is vibrant – academically, athletically, and socially.

Contributions to The Madeira Fund are put to immediate use, supporting students today.

The Madeira Fund touches all parts of the Madeira experiences. From the classroom to the barn and from the stage to Capitol Hill, every girl feels the impact of your gift. The Madeira Fund provides the operating support that makes all the difference.

The Madeira Fund provides the resources to recruit bright minds as educators and as students. Gifts to The Madeira Fund allow the school to provide financial assistance to 26% of the student body.

$8.85m

RAISED TO DATE
For The Madeira Fund
$10m Goal

Your generosity to The Madeira Fund strengthens every aspect of a student’s experience. It is because of your support that we attract and retain inspiring teachers. It allows for the financial aid pool that gives us the ability to bring together a community of girls who are eager to learn.

Your belief in Madeira makes all the difference between a good school and a great school.

Your support ensures that Madeira’s budget is balanced and crucial, short-term needs are met for today’s students.

THE CAMPAIGN FOR MADEIRA