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Why we give.

Tuition allows us to run an authentic AMI Montessori school. Our ability to invest in our future is held by the generosity of our community, our families, alumni, and friends. Together, we invest in our spaces, in our educators, in new programs, in financial accessibility, all in service of our mission, to guide children toward their full and unknown potential.

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Where your giving goes

Three places a gift takes root.

Every gift to AMS reaches one of three places. You can let us direct it where it is needed most, or choose the one that moves you.

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Help a family into our community

We believe Montessori should reach every child who belongs here, not only those who can carry the full cost. Roughly a third of our seats are kept reachable through tuition assistance. A gift here is not a line item. It holds a place at the table for a child who will sit beside yours, raised in the same peaceful, purposeful rooms. The years in those rooms are few. What they give a child is for life.

Make a Montessori childhood possible for another family.

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Send a Guide deeper into their training

As part of our dedication to authentic Montessori, our exemplary Guides are sponsored to continue their Montessori training, to study, refine, and return to the classroom stronger. It elevates their Montessori career. It makes our children's education richer. And even if one day our Guide leaves us, they leave with deeper commitment to the Montessori philosophy, carrying it into the world.

Invest in one Guide, and you reach every child they will ever teach.

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Build the next sixty years

For nearly sixty years, Austin Montessori School has put down roots along the tree-lined streets of north and south Austin. Our school was built, in part, by the generosity of the families who came before us. Now we have begun a campaign to grow and maintain our facilities, our work, and our community. A gift of any size has a place here. Together your gifts become new work in classrooms and new programs for children. They become the gardens, the play spaces, and the shaded corners where childhoods happen. Your gifts awaken the next sixty years of Austin Montessori School.

We plant trees whose shade we may never sit in. That has always been the work.

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The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

Maria Montessori
In their words

"Our experience at Austin Montessori School has been extraordinary and life-changing. Our daughter blossomed into a responsible, empathetic, and skilled individual in the Adolescent Community. We believe her experience truly exemplifies education for peace."

Elizabeth & Campbell · AMS family, twelve years
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Every gift, of every size, reaches a child.

Choose an amount, give once or monthly. It takes a moment.

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Austin Montessori School is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Every gift is tax-deductible, and reaches children within the school year.

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