Simon's Rock Village

About Simon's Rock Village

Simon's Rock Village is an alumni-led non profit. The Simon’s Rock Village Working Group is: • A non-profit entity incorporated as Youbilee, and is comprised of alumni who attended Simon’s Rock between 1980 and 2005. We are united in a wish to continue the Simon’s Rock legacy of critical thinking, free inquiry, and artistic expression. We plan to achieve our goals by building a coalition of state and local elected officials, land trusts, educational institutions and other non-profits interested in establishing a village with public enrichment programs at its core. In addition we will launch an exploratory land purchase fund with the goal of bidding on the campus. (Based on internal fundraising benchmarks, we’ll determine whether to proceed, or scale back our goals to play a meaningful role in shaping the campus’ future.) We believe that Simon’s Rock alumni and the public will support our plan because: • This past January, we conducted the Simon’s Rock alumni survey which received over 100 responses. It showed strong interest among alumni in future educational functions, senior housing, and open space preservation for the campus. • The Simon’s Rock campus in Great Barrington has provided an engine for intellectual, cultural, and economic growth to the Town and the region at large for over half a century. • Numerous Simon’s Rock alumni have settled in Western Massachusetts, Northwest Connecticut and Eastern New York over the last 50+ years. They have helped the region grow, and work as software engineers, lawyers, therapists, professors and teachers. They run farms, businesses, and art studios, and serve as elected officials and environmental stewards. • Repurposing the campus in a meaningful way, which preserves educational functions, will continue to draw talented people to the Berkshires, who can enrich the region’s culture and sustain its economic vitality long-term.

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