In October 2025, Sidwell Friends School launched the culminating phase of its Together We Shine campaign with a new overall goal of $220 million. This final phase of the campaign will conclude in June 2027.

Thanks to remarkable generosity from the Sidwell Friends community, more than $209.5 million—95 percent—of the cumulative campaign goal has already been raised (as of June 18, 2026). These gifts fuel financial aid, faculty salaries and professional development, and the endowment, which helps fund everything we do.

The ongoing success of the campaign, which launched in 2015, is also making the decade-long dream of reunification of the School’s two campuses a reality. A major milestone in reunification will take place this fall when 9th-12th graders begin their school year in the brand-new Upper School. In 2028, a new Lower School and large open greenspace at the center of campus will open. Once complete, Sidwell Friends will be united on one campus for the first time in 60 years.

As Belinda Nixon P ’17, ’23, co-clerk of the campaign’s culminating phase says, “This final phase matters so much because all of our investments in financial aid, new faculty positions, and facilities only reach their full impact when our whole community can work together as one.”

When we cross the finish line next year, the Together We Shine campaign will have brought our community together in a historic, herculean and joyous effort. Together we will expand access to a Sidwell Friends education and enable our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and families to collaborate across divisions and build community as never before. 

Board of Trustees members Josh Miller P ’27, ’30 and Belinda Nixon P ’17, ’23 are serving as campaign co-clerks for the culminating phase. Honorary Leaders of the campaign include Jason Carroll ‘96, Helen Austern Colson ’53, P ’82, ’84, ’87, Arlene Kogod and Robert Kogod P ’76, ’79, ’80, Charis Menschel P ’25, ’27, ’29, David Milner ’86, and David P. Pearson ’52. 

To learn more about Together We Shine and how you can support the campaign, contact Tara Arras, assistant head of school for advancement, at arrast@sidwell.edu.