Make Your Gift
Supporting the HKIS mission starts with daily effort. Annual Giving, which you can support any time of the year as often as you wish, makes sure that teachers have what they need every day so that students learn every day. Grow every day. Explore every day.
Supporting the Mission
Students learn every day because teachers teach every day. Teachers teach every day because they have the things they need in the classroom. Teachers need supplies and materials—everything from extra crayons for those times when they just didn’t make it to school, to white boards and projectors and lab supplies. Students in the choir need sturdy, safe risers to see the director. Safety equipment makes rugby, soccer and swimming safe and fun.
Teachers also need support from education professionals who make sure everything works, everything is in place, and ready each morning.Support the daily mission of HKIS through Annual Giving today.
Leadership Giving
Leadership Gifts provide significant resources that enable the school to move forward with ambitious new programs, program improvements, and projects in the current school year. A Leadership Gift enables the school’s leaders to take bold moves that make it possible to implement new innovations, technologies, equipment and programs that benefit students and teachers right now. We believe that your children and their teachers should experience the best education available, and Leadership Gifts to the Annual Fund make it possible.
In addition to the impact Leadership Gifts have, the school recognizes and celebrates those who make Leadership Gifts at all levels in our 1966 Annual Giving Society.
1966 Giving Society
Founders Circle: HK$250,000+
Head of School Circle: HK$100,000+
Chung Hom Kok Circle: HK$50,000+
HKIS Circle: HK$25,000+
Repulse Bay Circle: HK$10,000+
Questions? Contact Heath K. Hignight, Chief Advancement Officer
FAQs
Like all non-profit schools and organizations around the world, HKIS generates the funds needed to operate the school through limited revenue sources. Tuition and fees, on average, cover only 90% of the cost of providing an HKIS education. The HKIS Annual Fund helps meet the full revenue needed to operate the school. It supports the Mission and Student Learning Results by providing the means to attract and retain the finest teachers, develop and expand academic and co-curricular programs, and maintain and enhance the school infrastructure.
Everyone in the HKIS community – parents, alumni, faculty and staff – is encouraged to contribute to the Annual Fund each year. Further support is provided by corporations, trustees, and friends.
Yes! Beginning in 2023, you can choose to direct your Annual Fund gifts to the programmatic area of the school that you and your family want to support. You can choose from these core school-wide needs:
- Area of Greatest Need
- Academic Programs
- Arts and Design/Drama and Theatre
- Athletics and After-school Programs
- Music
- Religion and Spirituality Program
- Service & Experiential Learning Programs
Tuition increases are necessary to offset the impact of inflation as well as school initiatives including improvements to or additional programs. The Annual Fund ensures that tuition increases, when necessary, are as reasonable as possible. Past increases have also been reflective of fluctuations in the Hong Kong economy and have been lower than those announced by peer schools.
Everyone is encouraged to contribute, no matter the size of the gift. What is important is participation in the Annual Fund, which demonstrates commitment and support of the school’s Mission and Student Learning Results. Further, broad participation is a key factor when securing grants from corporations and foundations.
HKIS gratefully welcomes your gift any time during the school year. Donations can be made by check or wire transfer, but the most common way parents and alumni make their Annual Fund gifts each year is online with a credit card with our secure online gift form. This secure online gift form accepts gifts in HK dollars.
If you are based in Hong Kong:
You may make a gift in US dollars, too. To make a gift in US dollars, please use this link, and make your Annual Fund gift to HKIS through the Friends of Hong Kong Charities. Based in Hong Kong, FOHKC holds simultaneous Section 88 (Hong Kong charity) and 501c3 (US nonprofit) registrations, and will provide you with a tax receipt for your US tax filing purposes.
If you are based in the US:
You may now securely make a gift in US dollars to the Friends of HKIS. To make a gift using your US credit or debit card, please visit the Giving In The US page!
*Note: all gifts made through Friends of HKIS are in US dollar denominations, and will also receive a tax receipt for your US tax filing purposes. Friends of HKIS is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the US.
Gifts of any amount are gratefully accepted and recognized annually in the Impact Report (link). You’re encouraged to consider what a meaningful gift amount for their family might be. The HKIS community celebrates parents, alumni and donors who choose to make a gift at a leadership level in the school’s Impact Report.
