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!

Thanks for supporting our local school, loretod!