This Week

Keeping Watch  

What exactly do we do at Edgewood Sailing School? Well, we teach sailing, of course, and a lot of that involves active instruction on and off the water. But a big part of what we do is also keeping watch over our students, to make sure they have having a safe, fun, and fulfilling experience while learning to sail.  KEEPING WATCH requires developing and retaining a top-notch set of instructors, and doing that requires a fair amount of money – instructor wages are by far the number one cost we have in the ESS budget each year. 

Where does that money come from? Mostly from tuitions paid by our student families, but those tuitions don’t cover all of the funds we need each year. And rising costs make it difficult for some families to pay the full tuition cost we require to keep our instructors on the water doing what they do best. That’s where our MACNEIL-WESTCOTT SCHOLARSHIP FUND comes in, allowing donors to help subsidize youth tuitions and, in turn, to help fund the instructors who are the mission-critical component to all that we hope to achieve at ESS.

Please consider being a part of our effort to make youth sailing instruction as broadly available as possible by donating to the MACNEILL-WESTCOTT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM today! Your gift of $25, $50, $100, or more to the MACNEILL-WESTCOTT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM today! Your gift of $25, $50, $100, or more to the MACNEIL-WESTCOTT SCHOLARSHIP FUND will be used exclusively for ESS youth tuition assistance. 

To donate click on www.edgewoodsailing.org/donate, 
or mail a check to Edgewood Sailing School, PO Box 25641, Cranston RI, 02905. 

ESS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and your contributions to the scholarship fund are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.