Capital Giving

The current Campaign for Students features a new Science Building on Bissell Campus.

To ensure that facilities are commensurate with the high level of programs offered, the school must continue to make capital investments in facilities and equipment. Since 1990, CCDS has advanced a Master Facilities Plan that has brought dramatic improvements to learning spaces. Three successful capital campaigns over the past 15 years have allowed for continued excellence in academic programming:

Believe and Achieve: Campaign For Tomorrow (1999–2002)
Raised over $33.7 million toward the following projects:

Lower School

• Construction of Claudia Watkins Belk Hall
• Building of new Lower School administrative offices, a guidance suite, and Extended Day offices
• Renovation of Bray Hall classrooms to house the third grade
• Conversion of space in the lower level of the Learning Center into a new Lower School computer lab
• Moving of Lower School science into renovated space in the lower level of Belk Hall
• Conversion of space in the Learning Center for the Educational Resources Program

Upper School

• Refurbishment of foreign language classrooms in the lower level of the Levine Center
• Renovation of space in Barnhardt Hall to create a new Upper School seminar room
• Building of a new Upper School student center at the end of Dickson-Sanger Dining Hall
• Renovation of the Upper School courtyard around the gazebo
• Construction of an Upper School fine arts classroom building

All School

• Renovation of space in Barnhardt Hall to accommodate English-as-a-Second Language program
• Renovation of the Gorelick Family Theater
• Construction of Bruton Smith Athletic Center
• Renovation of space formerly occupied by Lower School science to create a suite to house Information Technology

The Bissell Campus Project (1997)
Raised over $2 million toward the following projects:

• Constructed new Sklut Arts and Activities Center and other Middle School improvements. Sklut Arts and Activities Center houses:
  • Two art rooms
    
  • Computer and general music rooms
    
  • Satellite computer room
    
  • Cafeteria (which quickly converts to an auditorium for band, choir, strings, and other performances. Is also used for visiting speakers, speech contests, parents' meetings, and other special events.
• Former art rooms in Rea Hall converted into administration offices and a nurse's station
  
• Previous cafeteria converted into a room for band, dance, and PE activities
  Former computer room renovated for use as faculty work space

Expanding Future Opportunities/Next Step Forward Campaigns (1993)
Raised over $11.3 million toward the following projects:

• Renovation of Dickson-Sanger Dining Hall, the Cannon Science Building, and Pell Hall
  
• Increased endowments for faculty salaries and student scholarships
  
• Improved athletic facilities (Belk Stadium and a new tennis complex)
  
• Added much-needed classroom space on both campuses
  
• Constructed new playground areas for Lower Schoolers
  
• Established new endowments for the maintenance of Cannon Campus
  
• Built new classroom and administrative complex (Levine Center)

The Campaign for Students:
Today and Tomorrow

Our current campaign, launched in 2005, advances an exciting era in the history of Charlotte Country Day School. With a campaign goal to reach $42.4 million by June 30, 2009, CCDS is poised to:

• Grow endowment by 46 percent to support teachers, a diverse student body, and the operation of new facilities.
• Build facilities on Bissell Campus to relieve space constraints and support our high-caliber science and performing arts curricula.
• Accelerate Annual Fund growth by 56 percent as a short-term alternative to substantial endowment growth.

To learn more about the Campaign for Students, please click here.

Beyond the Campaign
(not in priority order):

• Enhancements to the Lower School Fine Arts Classroom Building to create expanded space for foreign language and music instruction, and Extended Day Programming.
• Middle School Media & Technology Center to create a space suited for twenty-first century learning
• Community & Sports Center as the second component to a planned multi-use complex to support student assemblies, athletic performances, wrestling, and strength/conditioniong
• All-School theater adjacent to the Upper School Fine Arts Building.
• Natatorium as the third and final athletic facility component.