Sponsor Before the First Paycheck

Twice a week · Five weeks · Ages 15–18 · taught by Mr. Thomas Ward

Budget, credit, compounding, taxes and insurance in five weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Built to be finished before a first job starts.

$70 per student · 10 live meetings

How should your gift be used?

Sponsor whole seatsPays the full price of a seat for a family who applies for aid. The clearest impact.Lower the price for everyoneTakes the same amount off each of the next seats until your gift runs out.Add to this class’s aidGoes only to families with verified need, so every dollar goes furthest.

Seats

Your gift stays with Before the First Paycheck across every section of it, and is spent only the way you chose: on whole seats or class aid for families with verified need, or on lowering the price for the next seats. If the class is retired and a successor replaces it, your gift follows and we tell you. If sixty days pass with no section of the class meeting or scheduled, whatever is unused moves to the Lyceum’s general aid fund, which pays for need-based scholarships; we tell you that too. A change of instructor changes nothing, because the gift is to the class. The teacher is paid in full for every sponsored seat; the Lyceum keeps its usual 30% only when your gift pays for a seat. Families who receive help are never named to you, the class or the teacher.

Your gift

$140

$140 sends 2 children to Before the First Paycheck, chosen from families who apply for aid.

Your name

Email for receipt

Give anonymouslyShown as “given anonymously”. Your receipt still has your name.

Show the amount in the record of givingOtherwise your name appears without it.

In honor or memory of (optional)

Shown with your gift in the record, even if you give anonymously.

In the record: Anonymous

Add $4.36 to cover the card feeSo every dollar of your gift reaches the class.

Charged to your card$144.36

A sponsorship never pays for a seat in the sponsor’s own household; a family’s own children enroll at the ordinary price. Paying for your own child’s class is tuition, not a gift.

Your receipt is emailed straight away. Deductibility follows recognition of the Lyceum’s exemption.