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Endowment Challenge Grant doubles the value of your gift

The Endowment First Challenge Grant encourages leadership donors to double the value of their endowment gift to the campaign's financial support and opportunity and teaching and learning priorities.

W. P. Carey Foundation Sets New College Counseling Benchmark for Baltimore Independent Schools

With its $3 million investment to endow the Gilman college counseling program, the W. P. Carey Foundation has made the largest donation to support college counseling received by the School and set a new benchmark for Baltimore independent schools.

Endowed Faculty Chair Created in Memory of Ruth Williams

Robert F. Greenhill ’54 and his late wife Gayle honored the life and influence of one of Gilman’s most inspiring teachers, role models, outstanding educators, and trailblazers, Ruth Weaver Williams, with a $2 million leadership gift to First Things First, which will establish an endowed faculty chair.

First Thing First Campaign Launches

Gilman celebrated the official launch of First Things First: Endowing Gilman’s Promise and People on Saturday, October 7. This comprehensive capital campaign will strengthen Gilman's leadership legacy by giving talented boys access to the School and guiding them to excellent colleges and lives of purpose; attracting and supporting gifted faculty; and providing the programs that allow every boy to discover and develop the best in himself.

Click the blue title above to see photographs and video from the kickoff event.

Foreman Fellowship Advances Burgeoning Teaching Careers

Thanks to the generosity of Anne and Thomas H. (Toby) Broadus III ’86, the Johnnie L. Foreman, Jr. Faculty Fellowship Gilman gives a recent college graduate the chance to explore the profession of teaching at Gilman School.

Gilman Joins Prestigious UPenn Independent School Teaching Residency

Gilman is excited to announce it is an inaugural member of the Independent School Teaching Residency (ISTR), an innovative new collaboration between the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania and a consortium of 10 of the nation's leading independent day schools.