Capital Campaign
Capital Campaign Updates
October 2009 marked the month in which the Hilltop community reached its fundraising goal—$4.3 million (including nearly $2.9 million in private donations).
How did this happen? Through incremental generosity! It has only been through multiple donations, large and small, that Hilltop was able to design, permit, and build its beautiful new 20,000 square foot school.
Additional gifts to the Hilltop Capital Campaign are always needed, and will be used to pay down our bank loan, further reducing our monthly overhead and interest payments. Capital Campaign gifts will also sow the fundraising seeds for the future renovation of our new Community Arts and Recreation Barn—the final phase of our campus build-out.
For more information about giving to Hilltop’s Capital Campaign, or to sign up for our easy “Dollar-a-Day” Capital Campaign giving plan, please contact the Development Office at 802-257-0500 x 107. Thank you.
November 2009
Many of us thought it couldn’t be done: Organize and launch a capital campaign, raise millions of dollars in a difficult economy, and design, permit and build a new 20,000 square foot school in twenty months. Well…the Hilltop Capital Campaign Committee is pleased to announce YOU DID IT!
February 2009
Our Capital Campaign Committee has traveled far and wide to access the resources needed to raise this school up out of the ground. This past month we were privileged to spend an afternoon in New York at Wolf Kahn's studio receiving a private tour with Wolf and other Hilltop grandparents, alum and special friends. It was a remarkable time spent meeting new friends, reconnecting with old ones, and enjoying a preview of Wolf's 2009 Spring Exhibit. We all send a huge thank you to Wolf for his generosity and time on that wintry afternoon.
November 2008
Since I last wrote the milestones have been numerous: On October 7th Hilltop offered a tour of its future home and held a school-wide meeting at which we reviewed the 18 month timeline leading up to this moment, and presented the building timeline of the project (it's fast). Just one short week later Hilltop's historic ground breaking was attended by well over 150 people including alumni, grandparents, special friends, the entire student body, and folks associated with the building of the school from architects to engineers to town planners.
August 2008
The pressure is on. Not for the Capital Campaign, although it is there too, but for these UPDATES. I have heard from a fair number of you now that you are actually reading these letters, and that you find the informative, sometimes humorous, even inspiring. I have joked in conversations with readers that I can be irreverent and playful because no one is allowed to edit out the jokes (and you'll only know that to be true if this line stays in the update!). Kidding aside, August is proving to be a pivotal month in our Capital Campaign. First, some very good news, our ACT 250 Permits should arrive any day now, and we will then be free to close on the property in September. Whew! Many thanks due to Bob Stevens and Kevin for their hard work on that truly onerous process.
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