SUPPORT HARMONY
PARENTS EXCELLENCE CAMPAIGN

Dear Parents,

As we are approaching to the end another successful year, we would like to thank you for your invaluable support and participation in Harmony Schools' events. Harmony administrators, teachers, and staff recently completed a decade of excellence in service to our communities, and we could not have done this without your support. Our goal is to continue to provide exemplary educational services to our students during regular, after school hours and even weekends at ever expanding levels.

We are requesting financial support from the communities that have been so very generous with us in the past. Your tax-deductible contribution to Harmony will help to ensure that each and every student at Harmony has the tools and assistance needed to be successful in their endeavor to pursue and obtain a university education. To date, every single student who graduates from Harmony has been accepted to a 4-year college or university making our graduation rate 100% and the dropout rate 0%. We would appreciate your contribution, for it would help us to continue to build upon this success.

As a public charter school, Harmony Schools are funded on a per-student basis by the state which pays for essential core academic services. These funds are not designated for extracurricular activities, clubs and robotics classes, field trips. Studies have shown that extracurricular activities are critical to holistic academic development which enrich children’s educational experiences and enhance academic accomplishments.

Please encourage your family members, friends, neighbors, and community members to consider supporting the students who assisting in building first-rate and high performing public schools.

We are most appreciative of your support and partnership and look forward to continuing to provide the best quality education for your child.

Harmony Public Schools

Ways to Support

Please visit our Donation page to make a gift online to Harmony Public Schools.

If you prefer to make a donation by check, please send your gift to:

Harmony Public Schools
Attn: Development
9431 W. Sam Houston Pkwy S.
Houston, TX 77099

To learn how you can invest in the growth of Harmony schools and give more students to opportunity to learn, contact Mark Namver at (713) 343-3333 ext. 119 or mnamverharmonytxorg.

More Schools to Serve More Students

Harmony's reputation for quality learning and college preparatory success continues to grow and so has the demand for more Harmony schools. To meet this demand, Harmony plans to expand its network to serve 24,000 students in 35 schools across Texas by 2012.

By 2012, Harmony will have had 3,000 graduates, and by 2017, an estimated 28,000 students will be enrolled in a Harmony school. But no matter how much we grow, our values for quality education will never change. Central to our growth plan is the vision of continuing to serve more students while diligently maintaining the highest educational outcomes.

Best in Class

Harmony is “best in class” in its ability to reach financial sustainability at both the school and network level. To date, Harmony has developed a lean financial engine with tight fiscal management, resulting in financially sustainable schools.

A financially sustainable school model
A Harmony school breaks even financially in its fourth year of operation. This is because our major cost-management strategies include:

• Optimizing personnel costs by hiring multi-functional teachers and maintaining a lean nonteaching support staff.
• Tightly managing the selection of our facilities.
• Tightly managing our operating expenses by centralizing purchasing and leasing agreements.

A tightly managed network
Harmony tightly manages the financial health of their network by diligently focusing on three areas:

• Tightly managed expenses at the school level, particularly in regards to personnel, operational costs and facility expenses.
• Maintaining low overhead in our central/cluster office as a result of a our distributed leadership model.
• Tightly managed and monitored working capital processes.

A highly leveraged investment opportunity
Harmony’s projected funding gap is $39 million over the next three years. After the three year period, Harmony will no longer require additional funding from private sources.

Harmony’s relatively low fundraising needs, coupled with its goal of financial sustainability by year four, underscores its ability to use investment capital efficiently.  It is this that distinguishes our schools from other charter school operators.