Heartwood College of Art has launched a $100,000 Capital Campaign called "Growing Heartwood."
The college has been offered a matching grant of $50,000 to fund
expansion of its Admissions Department and grow enrollment - a vital
step in its bid for NASAD accreditation.
A generous donor believes that Heartwood College of Art
deserves support, and now it is up to Heartwood to meet that challenge
by raising $50,000 of matching scholarship funds from the community.
We need your help if we are to receive the funding that will
enable us to grow toward our ultimate goal of accreditation.
In 2003, the State of Maine Department of Education licensed Heartwood to offer the
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree.
Since then, word has spread about Heartwood’s exciting BFA
program, exceptional faculty, ideal location and reasonable tuition,
and we have received a growing number of inquiries from prospective
students, making it clear that Heartwood College is an important
alternative for many art students, especially those from rural areas
in Maine and New Hampshire.
Sadly, many of those who would apply to Heartwood cannot afford
to attend the college.
While we offer small scholarships to incoming freshmen, as well as to
our presently enrolled students, our scholarship funds are not
sufficient to allow us to offer the substantial support many of these
students need.
Accreditation not only signifies a quality education in the Visual
Arts, but it also enables our students to obtain loans to help pay for
their education at Heartwood.
Until we have access to the loan programs that are available to
accredited colleges, it is vital that we grow Heartwood’s scholarship
funds to make certain that our students, and prospective students, can
study art at Heartwood College.
We are asking for your support as we reach for the goal of securing
$50,000 before the end of the year. That level of funding will allow
us to grow student enrollment and accept our generous benefactor’s
matching grant. It will
also insure that we can offer our students a helping hand over the
next two years, until student loans are available to them.
Later this fall, as you drive down Route 1, you will see a huge
paintbrush posted in front of the College, marking the progress of our
matching grant campaign.
Let’s fill in the paintbrush together!
Please make a tax-deductible donation to
Heartwood College of Art today, and help us
to fulfill our mission of “educating and inspiring our students and
evoking a passion for the visual arts.”
Thank you for your consideration!
Sincerely