Giving
Annual Fund
When we say
your gift means everything to our school,
we mean it literally.
On both our campuses, across all our curricula, the impact of the GOA Annual Fund runs deep. Each year, charitable donations provide immediate, unrestricted resources that empower us to meet needs and seize opportunities wherever—and whenever—they arise. For students, that means receiving an excellent, one-of-a-kind education.
The Teaching and Learning Dynamism
Across the entire landscape of academia, new fields of study and more precise modalities of teaching are constantly emerging. As educational dynamics shift, the Annual Fund helps keep us on the leading edge, where we can harness the latest, greatest innovations – like social-emotional and project-based learning – and infuse them throughout our curricula.
Student Life as Preparation for Real Life
Outside the classroom, GOA students have access to an impressive range of extracurricular programming that supports their formation as individuals in society. The Annual Fund helps our athletic, theatre, music, and fine arts programs, as well as student clubs, serve as living laboratories for teamwork, respect, creativity, diplomacy, and much more.
Open Hearts and Open Doors: Financial Aid
With Jewish and general studies curricula taught in parallel at each grade level, GOA comprises two schools within one. The cost of our rigorous and rewarding dual education is significant, but so is our commitment to affordability. That’s why we’re proud to have Annual Fund resources to support a robust and equitable financial aid program, which – on average – helps 50 percent of GOA families overcome financial barriers to enrollment.
Jewish Life and Leadership
As a Jewish day school, GOA enables students to access their full membership in our 6,000-year-old peoplehood. In our classrooms, on our bimahs, and during special trips to Israel, they inherit a vast heritage that equips them for lifelong Jewish authenticity, engagement, ambassadorship, and leadership. The Annual Fund supports transformative, immersive learning experiences across the spectrum of Jewish religious, cultural, ethical, intellectual, and linguistic traditions.
Facilities that Facilitate Learning
Time and again, research affirms that physical spaces impact the quality of learning that takes place within them. Settings that promote safety, comfort, wellbeing, and focus help catalyze excellence in the transmission, synthesis, and retention of knowledge. At GOA, the Annual Fund plays an important ongoing role in maintaining classrooms and labs that match the excellence of our curricula and faculty.
Israel Education
Israel education at GOA is a model of excellence. All students receive a 360-degree education about the Jewish state, and experience it for themselves on our signature travel programs for 9th and 12th graders. Ongoing efforts to strengthen and expand our Israel curricula, and train future generations of advocates are supported by the Annual Fund.
Development Leadership 2024-25
Steven Klinghoffer
Chair, Board of Trustees
Pamela B. Davis ’02
Development Chair
Chair, Board of Trustees
Pamela B. Davis ’02
Development Chair
Annual Fund Leadership 2024-25
MAJOR GIFTS
Mindy Schall ’97 Chair
CHAI SOCIETY
Dina & Etan Wiesen Co-Chairs
Rachel & Joshua Reisberg ’00 Co-Chairs
PARENTS
Merisa Fink ’00 Co-Chair
Keren Lebeau ’94 Co-Chair
GRANDPARENTS
Ed Zinbarg Chair
PARENTS OF ALUMNI
Shari Broder Co-Chair
Amy Borg Glickman Co-Chair
Anne Kroll Campaign Chair
ALUMNI
Sarah Schonfeld ’06 Co-Chair
Becky Lustgarten ’04 Co-Chair
Naomi Mullen ’10 Campaign Co-Chair
Dan Shpilsky ’14 Campaign Co-Chair
Mindy Schall ’97 Chair
CHAI SOCIETY
Dina & Etan Wiesen Co-Chairs
Rachel & Joshua Reisberg ’00 Co-Chairs
PARENTS
Merisa Fink ’00 Co-Chair
Keren Lebeau ’94 Co-Chair
GRANDPARENTS
Ed Zinbarg Chair
PARENTS OF ALUMNI
Shari Broder Co-Chair
Amy Borg Glickman Co-Chair
Anne Kroll Campaign Chair
ALUMNI
Sarah Schonfeld ’06 Co-Chair
Becky Lustgarten ’04 Co-Chair
Naomi Mullen ’10 Campaign Co-Chair
Dan Shpilsky ’14 Campaign Co-Chair
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2023-2024 Impact Report
