Every gift to Sunbridge matters. By making a contribution, you play a direct role in enabling us to continue to attract, educate, and develop teachers, leaders, and researchers who will serve in Waldorf classrooms, administrations, and communities nationally and globally. Your financial support allows us to expand our programming, making Sunbridge relevant to new generations and new kinds of students, and to defray our operating expenses, ensuring the future viability of our institute.

Ways of Giving

We encourage you to earmark your gift to one of these funds:

• Annual Fund: Gifts to our annual fund go toward essential operating expenses, including program development, faculty salaries, and outreach activities.
• Norman Davidson Student Support Fund: Inaugurated in honor of our 50th anniversary, the Norman Davidson Student Support Fund pays tribute to Norman Davidson, Sunbridge’s beloved director of teacher training from 1986 until 1998. Gifts to this fund go toward supporting our teacher education students through scholarship grants, mentor visits, and apprenticeship opportunities.
• Sunbridge Diversity Fund: The Sunbridge Diversity Fund was established in 2018 for the purpose of expanding and promoting racial awareness and representation in our teacher education programs, thus increasing the number of demographically diverse Waldorf teacher education graduates fully prepared to take on educational and leadership roles in Waldorf classrooms and schools. Gifts to this fund provide scholarship grants for our teacher education students who are people of color, as well as finance projects and programs that promote awareness of racial differences and viewpoints for all within our classroom settings. Read more about this initiative and what Diversity Fund Co-Chair Linda Williams, ’87 PhD, wrote about diversity in the Waldorf movement in this Renewal article.

How to Give

Online
Make a secure gift by credit card.

Through the Mail
Send your check (made payable to Sunbridge Institute) to:

Development Office
Sunbridge Institute
285 Hungry Hollow Road
Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977

Recurring Gifts/Multi-Year Pledges
Sustaining gifts provide Sunbridge with important financial support we know we can count on. Please use our donation form to set up a monthly donation or contact us at development@sunbridge.edu or 845-425-0055 x11 to discuss terms of a multi-year pledge.

Matching Gifts
Many businesses have employee matching gift programs in which the company matches an employee’s gift. If your employer offers such a program, please complete your company’s matching gift form and return it with your gift.

Commemorative Gifts
You are encouraged to make your gift in tribute to someone or something meaningful in your life. Please specify on our donation form whether your gift is in honor or memory of anyone and use our Notes section to indicate whether you would like us to send a separate acknowledgement of this gift to your honoree (and at what address).

EIN
The Sunbridge Federal Employment Identification Number is 13-3800725.

Previous Campaigns

We want to again thank all those who gave to our 2017-18 annual giving campaign; because of your generous support, we exceeded our goal! All 2017-18 donors will be listed in our Annual Report, which will be published later this fall. We also again offer our warmest appreciation to our 2016-17 supporters.

Questions
If you have any questions about giving to Sunbridge Institute, or if you wish to discuss gifts of security, bequests, or directing a gift toward Sunbridge’s endowment, please contact:

Molly Suggs, Development Coordinator
msuggs@sunbridge.edu
845-425-0055 x11

Thank you.