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GIVE

Every Gift Seats a Boy

Boys Academy for Human Development is opening with twelve founding boys in St. Louis. Whether you give $20 or $20,000, a dollar or a Saturday, you help build the room where these boys learn to lead.

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A Number Small Enough to Know

Our founding cohort is twelve boys. Twelve is small enough that every boy is known by name, watched closely, and held to a standard. Twelve is small enough that no one disappears.

When you give to Boys Academy, you are not one donor among thousands. You are one of a small circle who made the first twelve possible. Your gift becomes a desk, a book, a meal, a field trip, a mentor's hour, or the founding year of a boy whose family could not afford it alone.

CHOOSE YOUR GIFT

Pick the amount that fits, and tell us where you would like it to go.

Every dollar matters.

These amounts show what your gift can make possible for a boy. They are illustrations, not strict line items.

A week of supplies for one boy

$50

A book that will live in his hands all year

$100

A day in the field, learning where it happens

$500

A month of mentorship hours

$1,000

A semester of materials for one boy

$5,000

A founding supporter gift

$10,000

A half-seat for one founding boy

$20,000

A full founding year for one boy

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Tell us your amount

Three Buckets. One Mission.

You choose how your gift is used. Here is what each bucket builds.

A Boy's Education

This is tuition, scholarship, and the full year. Your gift means a boy whose family cannot afford Boys Academy walks in anyway. Mentorship, instruction, field experience, and the calm, rigorous room he needs are all covered. Six of our founding twelve are sponsored seats, and this is how we fill them.

Supplies and Materials

Books, journals, lab tools, art supplies, technology, and everything a boy puts his hands on during the school day. A well-resourced classroom is a quiet promise that he is worth the investment.

Facility and Classroom Costs

Rent, furniture, the small spaces where mentorship happens over shared tea, and the calm rooms that make focused learning possible. Boys learn differently when the environment honors them.

More Than Money

Not every gift is a check. Here are three other ways to back Boys Academy that matter just as much.

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Shop the Store

Wear the work. Every purchase of Boys Academy apparel funds the school and tells the city we are here. Caps, tees, hoodies, and crests built for a founding cohort.

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Host an Immersive Learning Experience

Open your workplace to a Boys Academy student. Host a six-week learning internship at your organization and give a boy real-world projects, mentors, and space to think deeply while he explores your field and practices leadership. You shape a boy by letting him see what is possible.

Refer a Family

You probably know a family who needs this. A boy who is sharper than the system gives him credit for. A mother praying for a calm, rigorous room. Tell them about us, and tell us about them.

RECOGNITION

Every Gift Becomes a Brick

The Founding Wall honors the people who built Boys Academy first. Every donor in our founding year is named on it, by tier, with the option to dedicate their gift to someone they love. The wall lives here on this page now. It will live on a real wall, in a real building, when we have one.

We chose bricks because a school is built one at a time. We chose tiers, not size by size comparisons, because every gift matters and no one’s name should look small next to someone else’s. The grandmother giving twenty dollars and the foundation giving twenty thousand both built this school. The wall says so.

Cornerstone

The foundational anchors of our first physical room.

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Pillar

Structural support for our curriculum and mission.

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Foundation

The collective strength of our shared beginning.

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Friends of Boys Academy

The wider circle of those who believe in our boys.

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Make Your Gift

How did you hear about the academy?

After you give, we’ll invite you to stay close to the story. Join the circle of those who believe.

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