Supporting the Hurley

Community support makes the Hurley’s success possible. All funds raised by NPHS go directly to the school, providing enrichment programs, facilities upgrades, and academic support. Learn more about how your donations ensure the students are achieving at their highest possible levels, and how you can help:

For Individuals:

Join the conga line of individuals supporting the Hurley. You can help this innovative public school by purchasing tickets to ¡TropiCaliente!, making a donation, inviting your friends, or asking your employer to purchase an ad in the program book.

For Businesses:

Promote your business or goods the TropiCaliente way! Your establishment will be noticed by 350 urban professionals at our event, plus thousands more through posters, the web, and e-mail.

To support the Hurley through Club ¡TropiCaliente!, download the sponsorship, auction donation, & ad package, and mail or fax the appropriate form to us before Friday, March 30.

Your business can support the Hurley School through Club ¡TropiCaliente! in the following ways:

Sponsorship

Sponsors underwrite the event and receive recognition in all promotional materials, an ad in the program book, tickets to the event, and many other benefits. The following levels of sponsorship are available:

• Tito Puente, $10,000
• Celia Cruz, $5,000
• Desi Arnaz, $2,500
• Xavier Cugat, $1,000

Advertising

Each of the 350 guests at Club ¡TropiCaliente! will receive a program book, which will include ads from businesses supporting the Hurley. Ads are available in four sizes:

• Full page color (5"w x8"h), $750
• Full page black & white (5"w x8"h), $400
• Half page black & white (5"w x3.875"h), $200
• Quarter page black & white (2.375"w x3.875"h), $100

For questions about sponsorship or advertising, e-mail Alice O’Neill, Sponsorship Coordinator.

Auction

A donation of goods, services, or a gift certificate to our silent auction will create visibility for your business at the event while enhancing the value of the auction, which is the bread and butter of the event. If you have questions about a donation of goods or services, contact Auction Co-Coordinator Anne Bruntrager.

Why Give

The Joseph J. Hurley K–8 School serves a diverse population of native Spanish- and native English-speaking children, 73% of whom come from low-income families. Money donated to NPHS has helped the Hurley:

• Create a combined, flexible “gym-ateria” to move lunch to a central location;
• transform a cracked asphalt parking lot into an athletic field;
• fund a Director of Enrichment, librarian, science specialist, and literacy coaches;
• increase in-school arts and science programming; and
• create Bodega de Arte, the Hurley’s after school extended learning program.

As a result, 48% of the two-way bilingual third grade classes tested into Boston Public Schools advanced work program, and the middle school test scores were all above 80%. This is proof that the challenging two-way language immersion curriculum and enrichment programming is creating genuine change in the lives of the diverse population of inner-city students at Hurley.

There’s no doubt the Hurley has come a long way thanks to your donations and the direction of our principal. But as the budgets are cut, the responsibility falls to private donations to not only continue funding progress, but to prevent the loss of all the gains we’ve achieved. The percentage of students who have moved up to “proficient” in English Language Arts has increased 5-fold, in Math 10-fold. But still almost half the students at the Hurley are at risk of falling behind — and 73% do not have the financial means to get help on their own. The Hurley is committed to increasing the academic proficiency of those students but to do that takes extra time, resources, and programming. Your support ensures these children can continue to rise.