Our desire is to see every Christian school move from a position of striving to thriving! We help them do this by establishing an INFINITE financial strategy through an ENDOWMENT so that they can further sustain their mission for generations to come.
Here’s how it works!
Your immediate financial strategy is what encapsulates your annual budget. It’s what it takes to keep your doors open from year to year. It’s what you spend the most time on in planning during your board meetings. Finding the right balance of keeping a reasonable tuition rate to keep your current students (with the hopes of adding more) and paying your teachers / staff a fair livable wage. In an ever-competitive market, you want to keep top notch employees and offer programs that help enhance the student experience. Additionally, you want to keep the annual fund facilitating your margin of excellence (value add) and not just keeping your school afloat.
Your intermediate strategy supersedes the annual budget and helps you accomplish the next big goal / vision you have. This could be anything from a building expansion to the implementation of a new offering. It’s the thing that costs a little more than what the annual budget can facilitate and requires careful and often multi-year strategizing in order to attain that goal.
The reality is most schools don’t move beyond the two previous strategies… At Fortify Foundation, we want to help schools move to a position of an Infinite Financial Strategy. Setting aside a little of what God’s given us today in order to provide a more secure tomorrow. We want schools to create an additional revenue stream that will always be there to help them either weather economic downturns OR fully fund some aspect of their organization. This is what will make the difference in helping schools maintain an independent and more financially flexible future.
How It Works
At Fortify Foundation, we use a component fund strategy approach to investing. This allows every school, regardless of its size, to take advantage of a high-level institutional strategy when it comes to their endowment fund. In other words, whether your school is just getting started in endowment, or it has an existing fund, Fortify will provide you with an actively managed top notch prudent fiduciary that will give you the best returns possible. Your school’s fund will be diversified in a way that competes with some of the top notch funds in the country. Additionally, this frees up you and your board to focus on doing what you do best in educating the next generation for Christ. The last thing you need to do is add more to your plate. Who wants to worry about keeping up with all the regulations and ensuring your fund is prudently managed?
Let Fortify Foundation take the headache out of your school’s endowment fund help you pave the way to future financial flexibility!
Fund Option Ideas
General Endowment Fund
With the goal of preserving and growing the principal of the endowment, the school can spigot on and off annual distributions from their fund.
Special Purpose Endowments
Campus Endowment Fund
An endowment exclusively benefiting your school’s campus and facilities.
Faculty & Staff Endowment Fund
An endowment exclusively benefiting your school’s faculty and staff.
Endowed Scholarship Fund
With the same goal of preserving and growing the principle of the scholarship, you can award scholarships based on need, merit, or a combination of both from the scholarship’s annual distribution.
