How You Can Support Our Students, Teachers, and Community

 

Your financial support provides funding and flexibility for RASA’s operating budget. Every gift demonstrates your commitment to RASA, and shows our students the important value we place on giving back to the community. Please join the parents, alumni, grandparents, and friends of the past who have helped provide the best possible educational environment for our students. 

Below are the types of gifts that support the school and its mission:

  • Annual Fund—Your tax-deductible donation to the Annual Fund makes the extraordinary RASA experience possible. Your gift supports signature community partnerships, multicultural curriculum, advanced research programs, enriching educational experiences, and the full range of curricular and co-curricular activities that engage our students.

  • Endowment—Endowment gifts are invested for the long term, creating a permanent source of funding for ongoing priorities, programs, and projects identified by the Board. These gifts support faculty, scholarships, and academic and co-curricular programs. For more information about establishing a new endowed or restricted gift, contact Nicholas Doyle at (507) 206-4646.

  • Memorial and Honor Gifts—This is a meaningful way to honor or remember someone from the RASA community who has made an impact on you, your student, or the RASA community.

Ways to Give

Below are ways to make a gift to RASA:

  • Check—Please make your check payable to Rochester Arts and Sciences Academy, include the words “Annual Fund” on the memo line, and mail your check to 2521 Pennington Dr NW, Rochester, MN 55901.

  • Phone—Please contact Adam Nelson at (507) 206-4646 and he will be happy to assist you in making a gift. 

  • Recurring Gift—To make a recurring gift (e.g., monthly or quarterly), contact Adam Nelson at (507) 206-4646.

Strategic Initiatives

Designated gifts to the following initiatives help guide RASA's strategic direction, ensuring transformational innovation and growth. Donations of $25,000 or more may be directed to the following priorities:

  • Increasing Faculty Diversity—RASA is committed to implementing many strategies to increase faculty diversity to better mirror the diversity of our student body and the world we live in.

  • Financial Assistance—RASA has a long-standing tradition of providing access to students who would otherwise be unable to have a RASA education, ensuring the economic, geographic, and racial diversity that makes the RASA community so strong.

  • Faculty Professional Development—If a school is only as strong as its teachers, then one of our wisest investments is in faculty professional development. From summer grants to visits to schools across the country to sabbaticals, we make sure our faculty keeps learning and growing.