The goal is to run a capital campaign to build a new gym that converts into an auditorium with a stage, and add two intervention rooms. This would expand opportunities by reducing hallway congestion, increasing intervention effectiveness, improving teacher satisfaction, enhancing student life, boosting academic outcomes, and shifting school culture. The new gym/auditorium would be used for recreation, performances, and safe student pickup/drop-off, while the intervention rooms would get support staff out of hallways. Research shows such school renovations can increase test scores, motivation, and community involvement. Next steps include approvals, developing a campaign strategy focused initially on large donors, and going public for additional donations.

1. Building Addition
Project: ASPIRE

2. The Goal
Our goal is:
1. Run a capital campaign to build a new gym that converts into an auditorium
with a stage
2. This building will also have two 2 ILP rooms for isolated and supported
intervention
3. Turn our current gym into a fully operating kitchen with increased capacity

3. Why?
Expand opportunities.
We have a field of opportunity available, ripe for harvest. We have the opportunity to
solves some big Issues and expand our capacity:
1. Hallway congestion
2. Intervention Effectiveness
3. Teacher satisfaction
4. Vibrancy of Student Life
5. Academic Outcomes
6. School Culture Shift

4. Gym Auditorium
1. School year
a. Regular access to recreation outside of the classroom for students
(avoid as many push ins as possible)
b. Host theatrical plays and performances for students for cultural shows
and celebrations
c. Provide safe pick-up/dismissal area for students
d. Provides space for centralized lunch area for students
i. to give them safe, open and structure social time;
ii. to give all departmental teachers common planning/lunch time
for cross-grade curriculum development
2. Summer:
a. rent it out to Schools of Arts and Theatre → summer arts program that
is conditional on summer school attendance and proof of engagement
b. rent it out to summer basketball leagues → summer sports program
that is conditional on summer school attendance and proof of
engagement

5. 2 ILP Rooms
Get our ILP staff out of the hallways and away from distractions:
1. increase effectiveness
2. decrease hallway congestion
3. Give students and ILP staff more room to host/share materials and methods

6. Effectiveness of Vision
1. Construction--Effect of School Renovation/Construction on School Outcomes -
New Haven, CT urban school district (Yale University)
a. Sustained increase in reading scores
i. equivalent of about 1 extra month of learning school wide
ii. sustained over 6 years
b. Increase teacher motivation, student engagement, increase in parental
involvement, and effective school culture change
i. sustained change over 6 years
c. Increase in property values around the school area --> generates more
income for schools
2. Effectiveness of Summer Arts and Sports Programs
a. Arts programs have historically improved student performance in
schools (National Endowment for the Arts)
b. Sports programs with focus on character and discipline, managed well,
have improved student performance in schools (provide mentors, too!)
i. Take methods from experimental economists, we can tie
summer arts/sports programs to enrolling into summer schools
ii. ATTACK SUMMER SLIDE (which we know exists)
3. Top it all off with After School Intervention (or during school period intervention
program focused on remediation)
a. make it conditional that summer program only available if you take the

7. a. after school program
b. move kids 3 years in 1 for math (similar gains for reading possible)
c. alleviate teacher stress for differentiation

8. Partnerships
Community Partnerships Already Established:
1. Marvin Davis, Executive Director at Youthbuild, Gary
2. Bridget Haggerty, Executive Director of Donor Engagement at the University of
Chicago

9. Next Steps
Our Next Steps:
1. Approvals
a. School Board Approval of Capital Campaign
b. NHA Corporate Approval of Capital Campaign
c. Ball State Approval of Capital Campaign
2. Capital Campaign Strategy (with advice from Ms. Haggerty)
a. Get estimate of building (final number)
b. Begin Research
i. 30-35 big donors, look through 1099 Nonprofit Tax Forms
c. Find 4-5 big donors to get first 50% of money needed
i. Foundations
ii. Private donors
iii. Government Grants
d. Go public for last 50% of money needed
i. crowdfunding via social media and connections
ii. individual donations/smaller donations
iii. build donor base

10. Vision
Provide each child the
support to succeed.

11. Quick
Sketch