Frequently Asked Questions

This year, we will host the Bennett Scholars Breakfast as a Zoom Webinar on Thursday, March 18 at 8:30 am. You can register for the Breakfast using this link.  The day before the Breakfast, you’ll receive an email with a link and instructions on how to join the webinar. Plan on joining the breakfast at 8:25 am. The event will start promptly at 8:30 am.

It costs nothing to register or attend. This year we are happy to invite everyone to attend the Breakfast Webinar for free. In the absence of selling tickets and tables to the Breakfast, your support is critical for us to meet our goal to enroll ten new Bennett Scholars in the GMS Class of 2024. Please consider making a contribution to the Bennett Scholars Program today. Our families support the Bennett Scholars Program at gifts ranging in size from $25 to $220,000. Every gift makes a difference in the lives of our extraordinary girls. You can mail us a check, donate online using a credit card or make a pledge today and pay later. Check out our How to Give page for details on more options such as transfers of stock and ACH payments. 

During the Breakfast, we will have a live chat available and encourage you to say hello! Immediately following the Breakfast, we are inviting everyone to join their friends and classmates in individual Zoom rooms. This will allow people to interact in a smaller setting, catch up with friends, see teachers and staff, and reconnect. We’ll have a Zoom room available for every GMS class year of parents, students, and some rooms for GMS friends. You will be provided with a list of all of the available Zoom Rooms before and during the event. 

Yes! You can drop into as many of the “Class of” Zoom Rooms as you like. And you do not need to sign up for a room in advance. All Zoom Rooms will be open and available to all. 

A host is someone who is attending the breakfast and is willing to do a little bit of community building for it! Specifically we are asking two things of hosts:

• Attend the post-event “Class of” Zoom Room and help facilitate conversation. We will provide conversation-starter ideas, but feel free just to attend with a warm smile and news. We’ll set up the Zoom room. 
• Send an email to your Class to encourage participation. We will provide you with a template to personalize and email addresses.
• Consider attending the webinar as a “panelist.” Panelists will be visible to all attendees throughout the event. This is totally optional. We know attendees would love seeing some familiar faces.

We do not ask for any specific donation from you to be a Host. We, of course, sincerely hope you will support the program however you are able. 

Everyone! The Bennett Scholars Breakfast is a community-wide event. We encourage you to invite family members, friends, colleagues – anyone who supports empowering girls and celebrating women leaders.  The best part of a virtual event is that people can join from anywhere in the world! Just have them register at this link for free.

As many as can comfortably sit around your computer! There is no limit to how many people can watch from your registration link. Current students can log into their registration separately, or you can join on yours and hers.

Yes! For the first time we are thrilled that every GMS student will be attending the Bennett Scholars Breakfast as part of the regular school day. Students are invited to attend with their families on one computer or separately - whatever makes the most sense for your family. Students will be registered automatically by the school. 

Every current student was mailed a copy of our keynote speaker Sylvia Acevedo’s memoir Path to the Stars. Students will read the book in February. We’ll have guided discussions and activities during Cohort time and Advisory prior to the Breakfast and plan to showcase student work and questions during the Breakfast. 

GMS raises approximately $1.2 million every year to fully fund this comprehensive scholarship program. This is in addition to the approximately $750,000 we raise every year through The GMS Fund in support of our annual operating budget. Whether you attend the Breakfast or are unable to, please consider making a gift to the Bennett Scholars Program. We invite you to support the program at a sponsor level that you are able.

You can mail us a check, donate online using a credit card or make a pledge today and pay later. Check out our How to Give page for details on more options such as transfers of stock and ACH payments.