Support Your Local Community Public School!

An excellent public school benefits everyone in the neighborhood. No kids? Grown kids? PS 9 still needs YOU!

Are your kids in preschool? Invest in their educational future!

For more info, go to www.ps9brooklyn.org/donate

PS 9 is gearing up for another great year, but the school is still facing the $160,000 yearly funding loss due to our changing demographics and resulting loss of federal Title I funding. The PS 9 PTO must now raise $160K every year. And in order to secure staff and programs for 2013-2014, we need to raise a good chunk of the funding NOW.

PS 9 parents are working hard, but as a community, we don’t have this kind of money. Our school population is still majority low-income. Our socioeconomic diversity is a huge cultural and educational asset. But our enviable demographics are a financial challenge. In order to preserve PS 9’s diversity and academic excellence, we need your help.

We ask Prospect Heights neighbors to invest in the community by becoming PS 9 donors. Many of you pitched in last year. Will you please do it again?

In a 2004 study, Prospect Heights residents listed improving schools as their #1 concern. PS 9 has improved—the DOE now ranks it in the top 30%. It has a fantastic principal. A progressive, inquiry-based curriculum. A G+T approach to education that’s implemented school-wide. A commitment to the arts. A Spanish dual-language program. And a state-of-the-art library and a beautiful new playground—crucial capital improvements that benefit both PS 9 students and the neighborhood.

But to keep growing, PS 9 needs you. Goals include better staffing levels, deeper programs for the neediest students, and more extensive enrichment offerings. To reach its potential, PS 9 needs an infusion of money—NOW.

Please make a one-time donation now, or sign up online to make automatic monthly donations of $5 or more. It’s easier on your cash flow, it adds up, and it’s tax-deductible.

The PS 9 PTO is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.Donations are fully tax deductible and eligible for corporate matching funds.

Donate online via credit card or sign up for monthly donations:www.ps9brooklyn.org/donate

Checks made out to “PS 9 PTO” can sent to 80 Underhill Ave., Room 132-A, Brooklyn, NY 11238. You can also set up automatic monthly donations using your bank's online banking services—that way we avoid service fees!

Come grow with PS 9!