Welcome

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• Does Hamden Hall allow Matching Gift Opportunities?

  Many corporations have a matching contribution program that doubles or even triples the amount of your gift to our school. You can search on our website to learn whether your employer has a corporate matching gift program. You can also contact your company's human resources or benefits office. Corporate matching gifts ensure that your support goes twice as far!  
  
  Click here to view the search box.

• Hamden Hall Fund

  Like most independent schools, Hamden Hall supplements its tuition revenue stream with fundraising, including our Hamden Hall Fund, corporate matching gifts, private and public grantmaking, and more.
  
  We depend on all of our constituents – parents, faculty, trustees, alumni, past parents, and friends – especially given that outside funders look favorably on such all-in participation from a school community. We understand that our donors want to know that their gift will make a difference in an area of campus life that is important to them. And that’s the beauty of the Hamden Hall Fund! It enriches all facets of the Hamden Hall Experience: music, theatre, visual arts, athletics, scholarship, field trips, curriculum, programming, and so much more!
  
  Your support allows us to deliver an outstanding educational experience. Thank you in advance for your gift of any amount.

• Why Give?

  Your support allows us to deliver an outstanding educational experience including talented teachers, small class sizes, dynamic learning environments and unlimited resources, and so much more. The full cost of our programming and enrichment exceeds the amount we charge in tuition. And, because we are a private school, we do not receive funding from our state or federal government.

• Annual Report of Giving

  This ongoing list represents cumulative giving and new pledges for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024 thru June 30, 2025. Hamden Hall extends our gratitude to all of our donors. 
  
  Read more about the Annual Report of Giving here.
  
  If you have any questions, contact the Office of Advancement at 203.752.2616. Note: This list is updated weekly. 

• Learn more about our Office of Advancement

  View our Office of Advancement Brochure

• How can I make a gift?

  It’s simple! Gifts to Hamden Hall can be made in the form of cash, check, credit card, marketable securities, real estate or life insurance. To learn more about these options, please contact our office at 203.752.2616.  
  
  Click here to make a gift online.
  
  Checks may be made payable to: Hamden Hall Country Day School and mailed to the Office of Advancement, 1108 Whitney Avenue Hamden, Conn. 06517 
  
  

  Feel like visiting our office and meeting with us in person? Please do! Stop by anytime to make a gift or to discuss creating your personal legacy or establishing a scholarship or endowed fund in honor or memory of a loved one. 

• Will my gift make a difference?

  Every gift makes a difference! In fact, because of the gifts garnered from parents and families of previous generations of students, as well as alumni who graduated from our halls, today’s students enjoy myriad benefits including our beautiful campuses and the legacy of attending one of the nation’s top independent day schools.

• Planned Giving

  Hamden Hall offers many creative opportunities to support our community - through donations of current gifts or deferring a gift as a future bequest or planned gift through estate planning. Large or small, these gifts enhance our school community and ensure that future generations of students benefit from the vision and philanthropic leadership of today's donors.
  
  Learn more about planned giving here.

• Fund a Future

  Hamden Hall Country Day School has a storied legacy as a nurturing and inclusive community with a dynamic learning environment. From our earliest days as the nation’s fourth country day school, Hamden Hall provided educational opportunities to a diverse student body to ensure academic excellence and to better provide what we now call, The Hamden Hall Experience. So many of our alumni have regaled us with their personal stories of scholarship and thus opportunity. For Carol Nutile Burke, of the Class of 1947, it was a scholarship award that allowed her and her cousins, Reginald 1939 and Fred Jackson 1940, to attend Hamden Hall. “Going to Hamden Hall changed our lives,” said Carol. “We met new people in a world we would have never known, and it inspired us to do something with our lives: to have ambition.” Now decades later, Hamden Hall continues to provide financial aid in the form of scholarship to talented and deserving students. In fact, our school flourishes because we are able to attract more distinguished and motivated applicants. It is important for Hamden Hall to find angels in the Greater New Haven community and beyond who share our vision of providing educational opportunity in order to transform the lives of the most deserving students.
  
  
  If you are interested in sponsoring a student or learning more about our scholarship program, please contact Dawn Miceli, Director of Advancement, at 203.752.2617.

• Endowment, Memorial, and Scholarship Funds

  These allow you to remember or honor loved ones, a special teacher, or classmate anytime throughout the year. You can also mark a special occasion while supporting our school. Gift acknowledgements are sent to honorees.  
  
  Hamden Hall has a wonderful history of philanthropy under the pines.  Because of the commitment and vision of our past donors, the foundation of educational excellence was established and our school community now enjoys the reputation of being one of the finest day schools in the country.
  
  

  Our second headmaster, Herbert H. Vreeland Jr., is credited with having the foresight to view the school as a large family - a basic tenet that has endured over the decades.  But Headmaster Vreeland must also be acknowledged for his philanthropic endeavors on behalf of the school, which included personally purchasing additional land to enlarge our Whitney Avenue campus.

  
  

  These types of charitable pursuits have been the cornerstone of Hamden Hall’s longtime success and enviable curriculum.  Generous donors have also created permanent endowment and scholarship funds to honor alumni, loved ones, faculty, and other members of our school community.  These restricted funds are designated toward financial aid, faculty salaries and professional development, programming, athletics, and much more.

  
  

  Gifts in honor or memory of someone may be made to any of Hamden Hall’s existing scholarship and endowed funds.  To learn more about establishing a scholarship or endowed fund, please contact the Office of Advancement at 203.752.2616. 
  
  

   Click here to make a gift to one of the following funds listed below.
  

   

  Albina Cannavaciolo Fund

  Acquarulo Family Scholarship

  Athletic Hall of Fame Scholarship Fund

  Barbara De Natale Scholarship Fund

  Bea Westerfield Fund

  Betty A. Ippolito 1977 Memorial Fund 

  Betty Lou Blumberg Endowed Chair of English

  Beckerman Family Foundation Fund 

  Bill Hunter Scholarship Fund

  Carl Newton 1987 Scholarship Fund

  Carol Jones Memorial Fund 

  Cecil and Mary Jane Beaupre Scholarship Fund

  Charles C. and Viola M. DeMusis
  Scholarship Fund

  Class of 1973 Citizenship Award

  Curtiss Family Endowment Fund

  David A. Beckerman Scholarship Fund
   Deborah Beitch Jenness 1982 Memorial Fund
   Elizabeth F. Volpe Scholarship Fund

  Equity Endowment Fund

  Eric Santangelo 1987 Memorial Fund

  Ernie Russ Endowment Fund

  Fab Five Scholarship Fund

  General Scholarship Fund 

  Hamden Hall Fund -
  Unrestricted, Appreciation/Honorary/Memorial
  Henry Townshend Scholarship Fund

  James R. Maggart Scholarship Fund

  John R. McCune Fund

  Jon and Katharine Harris Endowed Chair
       of Lower School Music

  Kevin LeBrun 1989 Memorial Fund

  Lee & Nancy Herrington 1952
       Scholarship Fund

  Lisa Deconinck 1991 Scholarship Fund

  The Maria Agulian Fund 

  Marjorie Stewart Scholarship Fund 

  McKeon/Lucey Scholarship Fund

  Michael Musso 1984 Fund 

  Moira Fitzsimmons Art Gallery Memorial Fund

  Nellie and Stanley Pongonis Fund 

  Norma Raccio Fund

  Olson Family Scholarship Fund

  Perennial Pines Scholarship Fund

  Petar Lujic Memorial Fund 

  Porto Family Scholarship

  The Rebecca Paul Sela 1998 and 
       Karen Paul Giblin 2002 Scholarship Fund
  Rick Beitch 1983 Memorial Fund

  Robert Schroeder Scholarship Fund
  Science, Innovation & Design Program Endowment

  Smith Legacy Theatre Fund

  Sonny Coughlin Memorial Fund 

  Susan M. Lewin Scholarship Fund
  Swain Library Fund 

  Teplitzky Family Endowment Fund for Diversity

  Tommus Iampietro Scholarship Fund

  William H. Buell 1929 Scholarship Fund

  Zayne Ali Thomas Endowed Scholarship Fund 

   

• Donor-Advised Funds

  A donor-advised fund is a charitable investment account, for the sole purpose of supporting charitable organizations you care about, like Hamden Hall. When you contribute cash, securities or other assets to a donor-advised fund at a public charity, you are generally eligible to take an immediate tax deduction. Then those funds can be invested for tax-free growth and you can recommend grants to Hamden Hall.
  
  When you give, you want your charitable donations to be as effective as possible. Donor-advised funds are the fastest-growing charitable giving vehicle in the United States because they are one of the easiest and most tax-advantageous ways to give to charity.
  

• Stock Transfers

  A gift of appreciated stock is a convenient and economical way to make a gift to our school. Please call 203.752.2616 to make a stock gift.

• What are other ways I can contribute to Hamden Hall?

  The gift of time and talent is a considerable one that adds to the overall value of our school community. Our volunteers play an important role in enhancing the life of our school. What’s better than having our parents and alumni - in other words, individuals who understand our mission and have an affinity for our school - lend their expertise and creativity? Our volunteer opportunities range from coordinating events and reunions to raising dollars for our Hamden Hall Fund and helping us stay connected to all of our constituents. If you are interested in volunteering at Hamden Hall, please contact our office at 203.752.7616