Fall 2023 Campaign Update

Athletics, Health, & Wellness
We continue to believe in taking a holistic approach so our students can thrive in all of their endeavors while building healthy habits for life. Now we introduce a comprehensive center for teaching, modeling, and inspiring wellness across our campus in every dimension.

Opening in fall 2024, construction is underway for this 33,000 square feet home to our gym with a  bouldering wall and running track, a student commons, athletic training and fitness rooms, a multi-purpose room for meetings and events, studios for yoga, fitness, and dance as well as a modernized Health Care Center with a conference room, counseling offices, exam rooms, and overnight care rooms.

With adequate program spaces for movement, mindfulness, and education, imagine the ways a girl will be able to leverage her knowledge of women’s health and self-care and unleash peak athletic performance. Imagine her confidence after a yoga workshop that steadies her mind for standardized tests. Imagine families who truly want what’s best for their daughters walking through these doors and realizing they’ve found exactly what they are looking for and more.

The design of the building will utilize environmentally friendly and sustainable principles by incorporating geo-thermal heating and cooling. Light-filled spaces, patios, and porches contribute to individual well-being. Surrounded by courtyards, trees, and lawns, the benefit of green space will continue to be a hallmark of the Chatham Hall experience.

We are a school on the move! Join us for a Boundless Potential event in a city near you. This most ambitious project is a once in a generation opportunity to transform the campus footprint for students now and for generations to come. Join us as we raise the next $5 million!

Student & Faculty Living Spaces
Chatham Hall will be positioned to attract and retain top talent by offering modernized comfortable housing. Great teachers choose to establish themselves at an institution that will garner the best opportunities - to teach and to live. In essence, we will establish Chatham Hall as an employer of choice for talented teachers everywhere.

The Boundless Potential campaign began by focusing on our existing community and living spaces. In total, the campaign has received more than $5 million to date. The campaign continues to revitalize our faculty homes.

Currently Under Renovation: Pete Taylor Cottage

Nine More Homes to Complete: Cape Cod House, Charlie Taylor Cottage, Gilmore Cottage, Hanes House, Holt Garden Apartments (2), Mansfield, Mite Box, Rectory

Completed Renovations:

• Halifax Road: Halifax Road House, Waller House
• Chatham Hall Circle: Andrus Cottage, Brush House (2), Calf Barn, Deanery, Faculty House, Faraway Cottage, Halifax Road House, Milk House, Patterson Cottage (2), Shuford Cottage (2), Stable Apartment, Waller House

Students & Community Renovations Completed: Renovated dorm rooms, faculty apartment, and common area in the Walker Buck Wing; updated the Well and Large Drawing Room; new furnishing for the Niche.

Endowment & the Chatham Hall Fund
Enhancing the student experience is at the heart of the Boundless Potential campaign. How Chatham Hall delivers on the student experience is what sets it apart from other schools. With financial aid for families with demonstrated need, we are able to make access to a Chatham Hall education possible. Signature programs, such as Writer in Residence, engage students with role models who inspire and motivate achievement. Creation of the Global Entrepreneurship program, robotics, and Makerspace for design thinking and innovation bring student and faculty ideas to life.

Annual support for the Chatham Hall Fund makes an immediate impact on the School each year. Alumnae, parents, and friends enhance the student experience by adding $1 million every year in support for the Fund with more than $7 million in gifts over the course of the campaign. Every donor and every gift makes a difference.

Gifts for emerging priorities including the Riding Pogram, Robin Peake Stuart Collection of modern art, and other initiatives have provided over $3 million in additional support.

Endowments establish permanent support for our signature programs, financial aid scholarships, and faculty development to ensure that these remain part of the Chatham Hall experience going forward. We have added more than $7 million to the endowment to date.

Members of the Esto Perpetua Society plan for Chatham Hall’s future through planned giving in the form of estate plans, trusts, and beneficiary designations of retirement and life insurance plans. To date, the Boundless Potential campaign recognizes nearly $7 million in designations with a goal of 150 members of the Esto Perpetua Society.