2005-2006 Annual Report

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As you will see in the pages that follow, NAISis committed to helping its members reachtheir goals. Current initiatives are diverse, far reaching, and value laden. They includehelping schools find ways to sustainthemselves financially, supporting the training and growth of the next generation of independent school leaders, grappling with shortsighted initiatives to hold schoolsaccountable in ways that threaten theirindependence, and encouraging thedevelopment of values and practices that bestprepare our students for the interconnectedand interdependent world of today.

Much more goes on at NAIS. Conferences,publications, StatsOnline, lobbying efforts,and a host of other important tasks fill thework day. Pat Bassett and his band of hardworking and committed staffers do the heavylifting day in and day out and constantly lookfor ways to improve. The NAIS board isfortunate to have them, and I hope you agreethat the leadership and services provided toyou are helpful, meaningful, and worthwhile.

Our work is like the hukilau, and bycontinuing to work and fish together, we will all enjoy the bounty that lies within our member schools, associations, and NAIS.

Chairman of the BoardVal Iwashita

A traditional way of fishing in Hawaii is the hukilau. A long net is laid on a reef andboth ends of the net are gradually pulled to form a semi-circle. The net is thenslowly moved closer and closer to shore by people who huki, or pull each end.

It is critical that they pull both ends of the net in unison, a difficult task when coordinatingthe actions of the large number of people involved. Pulling only one end of the net, orpulling one end faster than the other, allows the fish to escape and the village goes hungry.

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Our commitment is to a four-prongedapproach to being the “go to” resource for independent schools:

1. Identify and research the challengesfacing independent schools.

2. Create theme-focused issues ofIndependent School magazine to share“best of breed” thinking from thoughtleaders inside and outside of theindependent school community.

3. Load the NAIS website with resourcesand links relevant to the strategic issuesand the operational challenges ofschools.

4. Create new web-based tools for schoolsto make it easier to address the issues.

The Year Past (2005–06) Theme: from Opinion-Rich to Data-Rich Decision MakingIncreasingly, NAIS seeks to provide strategicinformation and trend analysis so that schoolleaders are better positioned to make “data-rich” rather than “opinion-rich” decisions. In2005–06, NAIS added to its advocacy researchon the performance of independent schoolgraduates in college and the workforce, rootedin data gleaned from the National Center forEducational Statistics (the NELS report) andfrom the Higher Education Research Institute(The Annual College Freshman Survey) withits Opinion Leaders Survey: ForecastingIndependent Education to 2025. This piece

has become the “go to” environmental scanresearch for schools undertaking strategicplanning.

The year 2005–06 as well brought additional“NAIS Tools for Schools,” including theremarkable StatsOnline Financing SchoolsCalculator and Dashboard Indicators andAIM, the Assessment of Inclusivity andMulticulturalism, a survey and rubric thathelps school develop a baseline from which to improve their diversity work. Likewise,increased advertising brought more candidatesto the NAIS Career Center to help schoolsmeet their recruitment needs. Finally, NAISexpanded its professional development

Annual Report by the President

T he tradition of the president’s report is to span three-years—the years past, present, and future—to give a better sense of NAIS’s work and scope.

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offerings with a series of workshops thatrecommend or require a school to send ateam, built on the notion that effective schoolleadership is a team activity. NAIS added theLessons in Leadership on the Battlefields ofGettysburg Institute and the Institute forLeadership in Sustainability to our other team-based institutes, the Summer DiversityInstitute and the Financing SustainableSchools Institute.

The Year Present (2006-07) Theme: from Good to GreatNAIS, like many of our schools, has embracedthe insights of Jim Collin’s work, expressed inhis book Good to Great. Collins, our 2007Annual Conference keynote speaker, alongwith a panel of school practitioners whospoke of their applications of the Collinsresearch, all spoke to the benefits of the sixprinciples of Good to Great: selfless “level 5”leadership; “brutal facts” assessments; thehedgehog focus; the “first who, then what”notion of getting the “right people on thebus”; the culture of discipline; and technologyas an accelerator.

NAIS’s Good to Great theme this year is tied to our version of the “new triple bottom line”:People, Planet, Purpose. In the follow up to the book, Good to Great for the SocialSectors, Collins shared with us the liberatingadmonition that non profits are not supposedto be “like a business” because returning aprofit to investors cannot be the metric bywhich they are measured. Rather, greatnessshould be the aim, not profits.

Tying our triple bottom line of People, Planet, Purpose to the vision of 21st Centuryindependent schools focused on sustainability,school missions evolve to be both micro andmacro, to impact each kid…and the world.For NAIS, the theme compels us to lead, andto model all the sustainability themes and tomanifest a higher purpose.

The “NAIS Tools for Schools” we’ve rolled outor improved this year include our newDemographics Center, an amazing resourcethat can help schools determine theircommunity’s demographic trends and destinyas a first step to re-calibrating marketing andmission priorities. Toward that end, this yearas well we released more original research byNAIS, Speaking their Language: Marketing toGeneration X and Minority Families, availablein the advocacy section of our website atwww.nais.org/advocacy (along with newadvertising templates for admissions offices

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to customize and use). Our “green and global”web pages have been substantially enrichedthis year, most recently with a tract called 101 Ways To Go Green…and Global.(www.nais.org/go/sustainableschools)

Other new NAIS tools are governance/leadership oriented, such as the new CaseStudy Film Vignettes and Webinars onGovernance available to download and use at school leadership and board meetings. Themajor StatsOnline initiative this year was our extraordinary and best-of-breed ExecutiveCompensation tool for data and reports:Nothing else out there compares to thedatabase and reporting possibilities in terms of being current and comprehensive, therebyhelping schools and boards to determinecompensation for heads and businessmanagers that is competitive, appropriate, anddefensible should the IRS come knocking.

Finally, we are about to introduce a new toolfor next year: The Independent School SurveyBuilder. With it, you’ll be able to conductbenchmarkable and customizable surveyingon your customer satisfaction of currentconstituents and on impact over time,tracking data on alumni. Your data will serveyou well individually but also it will help uscollectively as NAIS reads the outcomes andutilizes them to advocate for our industry.

The Year Next (2007–08): The School of the Future: Embracing the Educational ReNAISsanceNAIS, over the last three years, has given greatattention to four of the five sustainabilitythemes: demographic, global, environmental,and financial. In 2007–08, we will continue toprovide embellished and new resources inthese areas, but also, we are committing to

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focusing on the fifth arena, programmaticsustainability, to help schools define theirversion of the “school of the future” thatfeatures the 21st Century curriculum.

The message from the marketplace isincreasingly clear: schools must change toeducate students for a radically differentfuture. When public schools address this withdramatic experiments such as Philadelphia’sSchool of the Future (designed in large part by a team from Microsoft), independentschools should pay attention. When the NewCommission on The Skills of the AmericanWorkforce, 2007, publishes the mostamazingly radical manifesto ever written by a “blue ribbon panel” of prominentleaders, Tough Choices or Tough Times (thisdecade’s equivalent of A Nation at Risk),independent schools should pay attention.According to the Commission:

The crucial new factor, the one that alone canjustify higher wages in this country than inother countries with similar levels of cognitiveskills, is creativity and innovation….. Thiscapacity for out-of-the-box and breakthroughthinking will be decisive for large firms andsmall, for individuals as well as organizations,for not just a few but the vast majority—andtherefore for the nation.” …[O]ur schoolsemphasize memory and analytical abilities andtherefore may not benefit creative students.This is not true of the best of our independentschools and suburban schools. But it isemphatically true of most of our schools.”“People who are comfortable in working inartistic, investigative, highly social orentrepreneurial environments are more likelyto succeed…. Schools will have to learn tosimulate those environments….” (pp. 29-31)

NAIS is payingattention. Our last twoissues of IndependentSchool magazine focuson the theme of“What We Teach”: i.e., what we shouldteach in a 21stCentury curriculum.Our new web resource,Ideas@Work, already has 700 innovative andaward-winning independent school projectsand programs identified. Much of myspeaking on the circuit this coming year willbe centered on the “school of the future.” Iflast year’s must read for educators was ThomasFriedman’s The World Is Flat, this year’s mustread is Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind: WhyRight-Brainers Will Rule the Future. Daniel Pink will be a keynoter for the 2008 AnnualConference in New York City, as will the other seminal thinkers who can help us seeour way to that future.

If you haven’t been to YouTube.com yet, gothere to see what all the fuss is about but alsoto view the short advertisement film entitled“Herding Cats.” That’s, of course, what schoolleaders do when they try to lead faculty; andit’s what I do when I try to lead schoolleaders. At the end of this film, the companywho created it, EDS, says, “In a sense, that’swhat we do: We bring information, ideas, and technology together, and make them go where you want.” In a sense, that’s whatNAIS does as well.

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The success of our new initiatives andtechnological innovations over the past few years resulted in an operating surplus at the end of fiscal year 2005-06. Operatingrevenue exceeded operating expenses by$1,090,000. Conferences and workshopsrevenues increased by over $1,190,000 fromthe previous year, and our technologicalinnovations continued to lower costs. Theimplementation of the three-year rollingbudget has enable us to focus, anticipate, and plan for future capital improvements,programs, and contingencies.

With the first dues increases in three years,NAIS increased its investments in technologiesand support of our existing products andservices. These new products include theChallenge 20/20 program, Assessment of

Inclusivity and Multiculturalism (AIM),sustainability workshops, global initiatives,trustee services, and continued commitmentsto the Advocacy Initiative, teacher recruitment,and improvements to StatsOnline. Weimplemented online workshops registrationand book purchasing. New initiatives like theDemographic Center and Independent SchoolSurvey Builder will be launched in this fiscalyear. Less than 40 percent of total NAISrevenue continues to come from dues. The balance of annual operating revenues is generated by conferences, workshops,products, and services.

NAIS ownership of the School and StudentService for Financial Aid (SSS) continues toprovide the organization with significantfunds. In addition, the 2005-06 fiscal year sawincreased attendance at the People of ColorConference held in Dallas, and revenue was significantly higher for the AnnualConference held in Boston in comparison tothe prior year’s conference. In our second yearfor SSS Online, we exceeded our goal of (40) percent of applications being submittedelectronically; so far this year, we continue to exceed our expectations.

Treasurer’s Report, FY 2005-2006Fran Norris Scoble

I t is a pleasure as well as a privilege to give you the financial overview of yourassociation for the past year. NAIS has completed another dynamic and productiveyear in terms of programs and initiatives, and the numbers reflect that success.

The Finance Committee of the board and the staff have worked together to ensure that the NAIS resources are both well managed and well used. Most importantly, we havecontinued to strive to keep association membership affordable and services accessible tomember schools.

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The Finance Committee and the staff arepleased with the current results and see this asconfirmation of an association committed toinnovation, initiative, and a high level ofservice to its membership. If interested, anyonecan go to the NAIS website (www.nais.org) tosee the details of our financial position fromthe audited financial report.

Among other accomplishments in 2005–06,our budget provided for the followingprograms and services:

n The improvements of our web-basedapplication to process SSS applicationsonline.

n Improvements of e-commerce,administrative functions, and userinteraction system for the NAIS website.

n Continued commitment to support the Advocacy Initiative to promoteindependent schools.

n Continued focus on teacher recruitment and retention.

n Continued improvement of the StatsOnlinesystem to make it more user-friendly.

n Our first successful Gettysburg Institute.

n The successful rollout of our Challenge20/20 program, which brings together teamsmade up of two schools each, one in theU.S. and the other from abroad.

n Continued success of NAIS publications.

n NAIS staff use of the Balanced Scorecard,

creating greater transparency andaccountability within the organization.

I hope this snapshot of recent results andaccomplishments gives you some insight intothe many ways NAIS has worked hard toreturn value to the membership and toprovide educational leadership nationally andglobally. Again, thanks and congratulations go to Pat Bassett and the entire NAIS staff fortheir leadership and stewardship. I also want to thank my colleagues on the FinanceCommittee for their wisdom and counsel. In sum: we spent a lot of money, but only 40 percent of it was yours; we made a lot ofmoney, more than we spent.

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Assets 2006 2005

Cash and cash equivalents $ 4,571,735 4,057,271Accounts receivable 71,684 109,027Prepaids, deposits, and other assets 236,961 216,008Dues from Education Testing Service 244,564 —Publications inventory, net of allowance of $70,784 in 2006 and $54,217 in 2005 140,597 100,184

InvestmentsCertificates of deposit 1,415,364 1,309,178Mutual funds 3,967,217 3,043,924Total investments 5,382,581 4,353,102

Furniture and equipment, net 1,432,198 1,651,165Total assets $ 12,080,320 10,486,757

Liabilities and Net AssetsLIABILITIESAccounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 1,377,752 1,190,055Due to Education Testing Service — 88,913Deferred revenue 1,100,982 702,552Deferred compensation 136,705 129,993Deferred rent benefits 425,684 426,060Total liabilities 3,041,123 2,537,573

NET ASSETSUnrestrictedUndesignated 3,427,594 3,143,137Board designated 5,461,148 4,634,756Total unrestricted 8,888,742 7,777,893

Temporarily restricted 150,455 171,291Total net assets 9,039,197 7,949,184

Total liabilities and net assets $ 12,080,320 10,486,757

Statement of Financial PositionJune 30, 2006 and 2005

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2006 2005

Changes in unrestricted net assetsREVENUEMembership dues $ 5,655,864 4,999,333Assessments and Advocacy Initiative 64,834 55,933Financial aid services 4,791,523 4,513,802Conferences 3,091,275 2,135,443Corporate contributions 44,702 11,525Publications 1,024,779 914,538Workshops 999,974 763,332Corporate subscriptions 275,555 214,708Sponsorship 208,500 142,500Interest income 384,220 183,738Net gain on investments 142,957 88,373Miscellaneous 20,885 12,241Total unrestricted revenue 16,705,068 14,035,466

Net assets released from restrictions 125,836 78,489Total unrestricted revenue and other support 16,830,904 14,113,955

EXPENSESParent outreach services 3,264,276 2,740,269Communications and information services 1,912,580 1,502,599Annual Conference 2,345,150 2,111,296Information and research 1,307,205 1,383,195Advocacy services 910,425 887,016Equity and justice initiatives 1,438,984 1,293,280Leadership services 1,399,575] 1,166,523Member services 849,858 534,780Trustee services 265,396 215,207Recruitment and retention services 233,716 216,353Accreditation, standards, and evaluation services 128,142 104,140Total program expenses 14,055,307 12,154,658

Statements of ActivitiesYears ended June 30, 2006 and 2005

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Supporting servicesManagement and general 1,150,512 1,272,812Fundraising 99,292 83,042Membership development 414,944 376,321Total supporting services expenses 1,664,748 1,732,175Total expenses 15,720,055 13,886,833

Change in unrestricted net assets 1,110,849 227,122

CHANGES IN TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETSContributions 105,000 169,000Net assets released from restrictions (125,836) (78,489)Change in temporarily restricted net assets (20,836) 90,511

Change in net assets 1,090,013 317,633

Net assets, beginning of year 7,949,18 7,631,551Net assets, end of year $ 9,039,197 7,949,184

Statements of ActivitiesContinued

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Statements of Cash FlowsYears ended June 30, 2006 and 2005

2006 2005

Cash flows from operating activitiesChange in net assets $ 1,090,013 317,633

Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash provided by operating activitiesDepreciation and amortization 580,770 450,654Loss on disposal of furniture and equipment 3,888 3,694Net gain on investments (142,957) (88,373)

Decrease (increase) in assetsAccounts receivable 37,343 (42,176)Prepaids, deposits, and other assets (20,953) 4,678Due from Education Testing Service (244,564) 80,891Publications inventory (56,980) (46,114) Increase (decrease) in liabilitiesAccounts payable and accrued liabilities 187,697 234,731Due to Education Testing Service (88,913) 88,913Deferred revenue 398,430 (309,803)Deferred compensation 6,712 73,793Deferred rent benefits (376) 13,455Net cash provided by operating activities 1,750,110 781,976

Cash flows from investing activitiesPurchases of furniture, software, and equipment (350,757) (307,653)Proceeds from sale of furniture and equipment 1,633 1,741Purchases of certificates of deposits (1,418,000) (1,923,000)Sales of certificates of deposits 1,311,814 861,575Purchases of other investments (833,862 (547,089)Proceeds from sale of other investments 53,526 145,926Net cash used in investing activities (1,235,646) (1,768,500)

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents 514,464 (986,524)

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year 4,057,271 5,153,788Cash and cash equivalents at end of year $ 4,571,735 4,167,264

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President’s OfficePatrick F. Bassett, President

Darlene Dove, Executive Assistant to the President and Board Administrator

Communications TeamNancy Raley, Vice President, Communications

Kitty Thuermer, Director of Publications

Edward O’Neill Hoyt, Editor of Publications

Cameron Johnson, Director of Web Services

Myra McGovern, Director of Public Information

Shannon Joyce Spaeder, Director of Marketing

Sahar Sulayman, Production Coordinator

Equity and Justice Initiatives TeamHarold Eugene Batiste III, Vice President, Equity

and Justice Initiatives

Jay M. Rapp, Director of Programs, Equity and Justice Initiatives

Finance and Administration TeamCorey McIntyre, Chief Financial Officer

Janyce Bryant, Director of Administrationand Facilities

Netty Ford, Accounts Receivable Manager

Francois B. Innocent, Comptroller

John Hawkins, Director of Conference and Meeting Logistics

Carlos-deShaun Brown, Customer Service Representative

Floyd Smith, Customer Service Representative

Financial Aid Services TeamMark Mitchell, Vice President, Financial

Aid Services

Leslie B. Vorndran, Associate Director for Financial Aid Services

Melvin Rhoden, Sales Manager, SSS Products and Services

Global Initiatives and Leadership DevelopmentBrad Gray, Vice President, Global Initiatives and

Leadership Development

Tina Wood, Director of Team Administration & Institute Logistics

Ioana S. Suciu, Associate Director of Global Initiatives

Amy Ahart, Director of Annual Conference

Government Relations TeamJefferson Burnett, Vice President, Government

Relations

Amy B.Sechler, Director of Legislative Affairs

Debra Wilson, Legal Counsel

Information and Research TeamMonique Rush, Director of Statistical Research

Crystal D. Gay, Information Resource Specialist

Amada Torres, Director of Stastical Survey and Analysis

Martha Lucia Galindo, Director of Research Initiatives

Membership Relations TeamHeather Hoerle, Vice President, Member Relations

Vivian Dandridge-Charles, Director of Membership

Michael Rease, Manager of Corporate Relations

Strategic Initiatives TeamDonna Orem, Chief Operating Officer

Susan Booth, Director of Products and Services Development

John Rodrigues, Director of Information Technologies

George Mendel, Senior Network/Systems and Telecommunication Engineer

NAIS Staff, FY 2005-2006

This list reflects staff as of June 2006. For the most up-to-date staff list, please go to www.nais.org.

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Val Iwashita, Chair (2009)

Headmaster, Iolani SchoolHonolulu, HI

Sandra Theunick, Vice Chair (2009)

Head of School, The Seven Hills SchoolCincinnati, OH

Fran N. Scoble, Treasurer (2007)

Head of School, Westridge SchoolPasadena, CA

Jaqueline Pelzer, Secretary (2009)

Executive Director, Early Steps IncorporatedNew York, NY

David Chojnacki (2008)

Executive Director, Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools

Athens, Greece

John Creeden (2008)

Headmaster, Fountain Valley School of ColoradoColorado Springs, CO

Sarah Daignault (2008)

Executive Director, National Business Officers Association

Boulder, CO

D. Ralph Davison, Jr. (2007)

Headmaster, Greensboro Day SchoolGreensboro, NC

Jayasri Ghosh (2009)

Educational ConsultantTacoma, WA

Edwin Gordon (2009)

Principal of Lower School, The Walker SchoolMarietta, GA.

Richard P. Hall (2007)

Head, The Washington International SchoolWashington, DC

Kristi A. Kerins (2009)

Head of School, The Phillips Brooks SchoolMenlo Park, CA

Henry (Skip) L. Kotkins, Jr. (2009)

Trustee, Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools

Seattle, WA

Meg Milne Moulton (2009)

Executive Director, National Coalition of Girls' Schools

Concord, MA

William New, Jr. (2007)

Trustee, The Putney SchoolPalo Alto, CA

Doreen S. Oleson (2007)

Head of School, Saint Mark’s SchoolAltadena, CA

Lou A. Salza (2007)

Head of School, Assets SchoolHonolulu, HI

Marcia Prewitt Spiller (2009)

Head of School, The Children's SchoolAtlanta, GA

Bruce Stewart (2008)

Head of School, Sidwell Friends SchoolWashington, DC

Peter Tacy (2008)

Mystic, CT

Agnes C. Underwood (2009)

Vice President/Managing Associate, Carney Sandoe & Associates

Cornwall, VT

Jeffrey Wack (2008)

President, JT Wack and Company, LLCNorth Haven, CT

NAIS Board of Directors, FY 2005-2006

This list is valid as of June 2006. For an up-to-date list of NAIS board members, please visit www.nais.org.

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Independent School Magazine Editorial Board

Dulany Bennett, ChairOregon Episcopal School, OR

Elizabeth GriffithThe Madeira School, VA

Sidney BridgesBrooklyn Friends School, NY

Ned SmithSt. Paul Academy and Summit School, MN

NAIS Legal Assistance Advisory Panel

Fran N. ScobleHead of School, Westridge SchoolPasadena, CA

Sandra TheunickHead of School, The Seven Hills SchoolCincinnati, OH

Meg Milne MoultonExecutive Director, National Coalition of

Girls’ SchoolsConcord, MA

George Boggs Dickstein Shapiro, Morin & OshinskyWashington, DC

John LiekwegUnited States Catholic ConferenceWashington, DC

Financial Aid Services Task Force

Dallas JosephBaylor School, TN

Grant L. JacksThe Odyssey School, MD

Nancy BennettAlbuquerque Academy, VM

Eileen Powers, Chair Campbell Hall, CA

Chris TopherTompkins Mercersburg Academy, PA

Terrie Hale ScheckelhoffColumbus School for Girls, OH

David ErdmannRollins College, FL

Nancy ClearyLoomis Chaffee, CT

Marjory NelcoskiEducational Testing Services Liaison

Mark J. Mitchell and Leslie VorndranNAIS Liaisons

Melvin Rhoden, Sales ManagerSSS Products and Services

Advisory Task Forces, FY 2005-2006

This list of advisory task forces is as of June 2006. For an up-to-date list of task forces, please visit www.nais.org.

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Grants and ContributionsU.S. Department of State

Robert Bosch Foundation

Klingenstein Fund

The Edward E. Ford Foundation

The Benedict Foundation

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Carney, Sandoe & Associates

SponsorshipsACH Direct, LLC

Bank of America

Brigham Hill Consultancy

Cal West Educators Placements

The Cloz Companies

Dallas Stars Hockey Club

Educational Records Bureau

Independent School Chairpersons Association

Intern Exchange International LTD

Jules Spotts, Ph.D

Laptop Schools

Laurie Matthews

Manhattan Placements

MBS Direct, LLC

Office Depot Inc

RENWEB School Management Software

SLM Financial Corporation (A Sallie Mae Co.)

Sodexho

Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools

StrateGenius.org

Texas Ranger Baseball Club

Donors, FY 2005–2006

The following companies and foundations generously supported NAIS programs and offerings in Fiscal Year 2005–06.

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NAIS MembersMore than 1,300 independent schools makeup NAIS’s membership. They include thefollowing: single-sex and co-educational;elementary, middle, and high school level;day and boarding; rural and urban; andtraditional and progressive schools. NAISmember schools range in enrollment sizefrom fewer than 30 to more than 5,700students. As a community, NAIS memberschools serve 487,618 students and employ51,295 teachers.

Independent SchoolsIndependent schools are “independent”because they have distinct missions; areprimarily supported by tuition payments,charitable contributions, and endowmentrevenue; meet high accreditation standards;and are held accountable by independentboards of trustees.

Membership Report by Board Vice President (March 2007)As of February 20, 2007, the total membershipfor NAIS is 1,322. The total number ofmembers and subscribers is 1,475. This totaldoes not include the 40 international schoolsthat are affiliated with NAIS through ourNESA partnership. The average studentenrollment at NAIS member schools isapproximately 461.

The growth in our membership has beensignificant in recent years, from 1,092members in 2002-03, to 1,136 in 2003-04, to1,216 in 2004-05 to 1,278 in 2005-06 and to1,322 as of today in 2007, representing a 21percent increase over four years, inclusive ofany attrition, which is very low.

We attribute the high growth and retention to the increased perception of value ofmembership in NAIS and the organization’s“Road Warrior” presence at state and regionalassociation meetings.

What is NAIS?THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLSn serves as the national voice of independent education;n promotes high standards of educational quality and ethical behavior;n advocates principles of equity and justice and affirms accessible and affordable independent

schools; andn develops products, services, and targeted information to strengthen independent school

governance, teaching and learning, and operations.

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