Introducing Emerge Transformed: The Campaign for Lawrenceville

Today, Lawrenceville launches the largest fundraising campaign in its history, Emerge Transformed: The Campaign for Lawrenceville. With a goal of $425 million, Emerge Transformed also has the distinction of being the most ambitious fundraising effort ever undertaken by an independent school. This Campaign will ensure the School’s strengths and build on its bold vision for the future.

Emerge Transformed rests on four pillars that translate to critical Campaign priorities: Transform Lives, Transform Learning, Transform Community, and Transform the Way Forward.

Transform Lives seeks to raise $100 million to sustain scholarship aid, vital to bringing the most promising students to the Harkness table from all income levels. Lawrenceville is committed to meeting the full demonstrated need of the students it accepts. “Strengthening our capacity to recruit and enroll the most dynamic and talented students we can find, across the socioeconomic spectrum, is one of the greatest responsibilities we have," said Campaign Co-Chair Alex Buckley Voris '96.

Transform Learning, with a goal of $80 million, is focused on faculty and students, emphasizing faculty compensation; the need for additional faculty housing; and expanding opportunities in experiential education, including S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) learning in the Gruss Center for Art and Design, the Big Red Farm, and the Harkness Travel and immersive Scholars programs.

“Lawrenceville fosters and instills excellence,” commented Campaign Co-Chair Glenn Hutchins '73. “It attracts gifted students from widely different backgrounds, training them to be leaders and preparing them to make vital contributions in every walk of life."

Transform Community, with a goal of $175 million, addresses the impact of Lawrenceville’s physical campus and facilities on School culture. “Lawrenceville is about the inspiration you draw from the sense of community here,” said Campaign Co-Chair Joe Tsai '82.  “When cultivated, it’s a gravitational pull that yields a life-changing experience.”

The new Tsai Field House, set for completion in September 2022, will modernize and enhance the School’s existing indoor athletic facilities through renovation and new construction and replace the Irwin Dining Hall to create a unique recreational and dining complex, unlike any other at an independent school. The Getz Sports Complex will feature new artificial turf and upgraded spectator seating, and Keuffel Stadium will become a lighted, multi-use turf field. A carless campus core, enabled by a new “ring road” circling the built area of campus, will encourage socialization, reduce vehicle traffic, and help Lawrenceville preserve its Frederick Law Olmsted-designed landscape.

Transform the Way Forward reflects the fundamental purpose of the Campaign, the need to ensure that Lawrenceville’s extraordinary academic and co-curricular programs, outstanding residential experience, cherished traditions, and landmark campus remain financially sustainable for current students as well as future generations.

President of Lawrenceville’s Board of Trustees Michael Chae '86 reinforced this message. “To support the Campaign is to invest in Lawrenceville's mission and its future; preserving, sustaining, and building on all that is great about the School for future generations,” he said.

Unrestricted gifts to The Lawrenceville Fund, which incorporates the Parents Fund, and to the School’s general endowment, will support the underpinnings of the Lawrenceville experience today and in the years ahead. The goal for these unrestricted gifts is $70 million.

“The Campaign name, Emerge Transformed, describes the influence of Lawrenceville on its students as much as the impact of community support on the trajectory of the School,” said Assistant Head of School and Director of Advancement Mary Kate Barnes. “We invite Lawrentians to join us over the next several years, as Lawrenceville travels in exciting new directions, renews its commitment to its most essential beliefs, and true to its mission, inspires the best in each to seek the best for all.”

The Campaign will conclude on June 30, 2023.

For additional information, please contact Lisa M. Gillard Hanson, director of Public Relations, at lgillard@lawrenceville.org.