Scholarships and Initiatives

While gifts to the Newark Academy Annual Fund are vital to daily operations, there are other educational needs that must be funded outside the scope of the annual operating budget. One prominent example of such needs is financial support for highly qualified students whose families cannot afford a Newark Academy education without assistance (see information on the right).

Currently, Newark Academy is seeking support for the following initiatives:

Through generous support and careful management of investments, the Newark Academy endowment has grown to more than $45 million. While the rate of growth has been impressive, it cannot keep pace with the increasing tuition costs and requests for financial assistance from the families of highly-qualified students. In order to meet this need, NA is prioritizing the growth of the endowment. Gifts for scholarship endowment may be directed to:

• the general scholarship endowment;
• an existing endowed scholarship program, such as the Newark Scholars program; or
• the creation of new fully endowed, named scholarship fund.

One of the strengths of Newark Academy is its history and tradition of educational innovation. Thanks to more than 250 years of experience, NA educators have the confidence to avoid passing trends and the courage to change and grow with the changing needs of our students and the world around them.  In order to ensure that our faculty are encouraged to, and capable of, continuing to keep NA on the forefront of secondary private school education, the Board of Trustees created a new endowment fund for Innovations in Teaching and Learning.

The fund will provide current NA faculty members with grants to reimagine classroom education, moving beyond content mastery alone, to focus on the essential skills that every student will need to take his or her place in the 21st century.

To learn more or to discuss how you might support any one of these initiatives, please contact Chief Advancement Officer Rose McSween at rmcsween@newarka.edu or by calling 973-992-7000, ext. 321.