Fundraising

Herzlichen Dank! Thank you so much!

The commitment of the TCGIS community once again shone brightly on Give to the Max Day! Together we raised an astonishing $51,115, surpassing our Give to the Max goal of $45,000!

Gifts to the Annual Fund touch every corner of our school and provide the financial support needed to ensure our students, teachers, staff and interns are able to thrive as we pursue our mission of innovative education of the whole child through German immersion.

Thank you for your generous gifts. Thank you for your commitment to our students. And thank you for being an integral part of the TCGIS community where together, we do more.

Why do we fundraise at TCGIS?

Like traditional public schools, TCGIS receives state and federal funding to operate. However, charter schools do not benefit from local property taxes or levies. This results in a roughly $6,000 per pupil difference at TCGIS compared to local traditional public schools like St Paul Public Schools.

This basic public funding covers our school’s operating costs. However, as a language immersion school, TCGIS has additional expenses that other English language instruction schools do not:

we host native-German-speaking interns each semester;
our students use German-language curricular and library materials we order from Germany;
we hire native-speaking teachers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland which involves financing Visas;
we encourage professional development for teachers specifically around language-immersion education.

For all of these reasons, TCGIS’ annual fundraising goal is a line item in the school’s annual budget.

The majority of TCGIS’s annual fundraising comes from charitable donations made by individual families, many of whom leverage their employer’s matching funds programs or elect to make a recurring monthly donation. Click here to make a one-time or recurring donation online.