GAC Endowment

Annually sustain and improve GAC buildings and grounds by funding major and minor campus improvements and repairs beyond what the school’s general operations can provide. This mission will free up more GAC operation funds for learning, spiritual, and extracurricular programs that further the school’s total mission.

Annually improve the quality of teacher professionalism and life supplementing GAC teacher salaries, benefits and/or professional improvement beyond which the schools general operations can provide.

Supports the total program of Greater Atlanta Christian School.

Support deserving children and families attending GAC who could not otherwise attend for financial reasons. Further, the endowment shall serve as the collective investment fund for specific scholarships created for GAC. The fund will honor the original purposes of donor-created scholarships and fortify them through the size and strength of the endowment.

Dedicated to funding specific needs related to supporting GAC’s commitment to learning differences including High School Academic Support, Middle School Academic Support, Lower School Academic Support, and the Learning Advocate. This endowment also provides funding for salary and benefits of the Learning Advocate position.

Returns from the endowment foster Financial Aid, Christian Life enrichment programs, Teachers and Student Excellence projects, Academic Support, as well as provide for campus Facility Care and sustainability.

However, there is a common misconception that endowments, including GAC’s, can be accessed like bank accounts, used for anything at any time as long as funds are available. In reality, GAC’s flexibility in spending from the endowment is limited by the fact that it must be maintained in perpetuity and that it is largely restricted (some permanently, some temporarily).

Endowment gifts are intended by their donors to benefit both current and future generations of students.  As a result, GAC is obligated to preserve the purchasing power of these gifts by spending only a small fraction of their value each year. Spending significantly more than that over time, for whatever reason, would privilege the present over the future in a manner inconsistent with an endowment’s fundamental purpose of maintaining intergenerational equity.

In addition, many faithful donors designate a specific purpose for which their fund can be spent. GAC is also blessed by endowment gifts that are undesignated, leaving the opportunity for GAC to use those funds where they are most needed. 

There are three main sources for supporting and growing our endowments: periodical capital campaigns, planned giving, and an individual or family gift.  Any amount of a gift can support your preference of the already established funds, or you may make an unrestricted gift.  As of 2011, GAC requires a minimum principal amount of $100,000 to establish a permanent, named endowment fund.

If you are interested in establishing a named endowment for your family in one of these areas, or another area, please contact:

Dr. Katherine White

Vice President of Advancement

770-243-2206

Tina Bullard

Associate Director of Development

770-243-2207