Enhancing the Education
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We continue to hear of measures taken within the school district in their desperate endeavors to balance their budget for the year ahead. Don Phillips, Superintendent of the Poway Unified School District issued a bulletin in May which you can read at the link below:
May 12th, 2010
Previous bulletins from the school district are also available here:
February 4th, 2010
November 17th, 2009
August 21st, 2009
You can also read the letter issued by Renee Resko, Foundation President on December 1st, 2009.
Your continued support can make a difference, please do anything that you can to help.
Volunteers Needed
The foundation needs volunteers to oversee and operate various activities listed below:
Annual Giving - coordinate the annual donation mailing.
Recycling - promotion and operation of a monthly recycling drive, and the redemption of bottles, cans etc.
Events - oversee event planning in conjunction with the selected venue, generate invitations and promotional materials, coordinate silent auction donations and item procurement.
Community Outreach - work with local corporations to secure sponsorship and support for events and annual funding.
If you have some experience in any of these areas, or you would just like to get involved and contribute some time, let us know - tbkfdn@gmail.com
Regular committee meetings are held, in the library at Turtleback Elementary School. The next meeting is at 6pm on October 22nd. We hope you can attend if you are interested in helping.
Recycling Drive
We are raising funds from recyclable items with a collection to be made at the school every Friday. Please save your plastic bottles and aluminum cans and bring them to school on collection days.
Please remove caps from any plastic bottles, and only bring items in a clean condition, seprated into different types as well please since we don't have much resource to sort what people bring along.
We will consolidate everybody's contributions and redeem them at the local recycling center.
Update with May figures is coming soon. You will see the significant benefit of the Wine & Cheese night followed by the McTeacher night. Recurring donations are made using the donation form. You decide the amount and how long the donation period should be. Complete the form and drop it off at the school office or mail it to us at:
In April we recorded the ticket sales and some of the auction sales for the Toast to Turtleback event held on April 23rd at Cafe Merlot. The balance of income for the event will be reported in the May update.
Charted below, most of the income for the month was fundraising proceeds, with $266 from donations.
Fundraising has become a more dominant source of income in the last 2-3 months, with donations levelling off. Year to date receipts are at $13,345 at the end of April, and we have clear visibility of income for the remaining two months of our financial year with remaining balances to post from the Toast to Turtleback event and the McTeacher restaurant night.
eScrip is yet to generate any significant amounts. If you have not already signed up, please follow this link to check it out.
Once again, thank you for your support and generosity!
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Working with Principal Dr. Campbell, our goals for the year were established before the school year started. These goals have recently been re-evaluated and can be seen in more detail on the Funding Priorities page. The target for the next school year is to raise $20,000 for instructional supplies and technical needs. There are insufficient funds from the school district to cover these basic classroom needs.
A final award to the school of $6500 is now scheduled for payment in late May.
Thank you for all you have done to make this possible!
Although we have more fundraising activities planned, we need your help with continuing financial donations. The recurring donations amount has been relatively stable in recent months but some of these arrangements are now reaching their expiration date. We would like to see these renewed along with new commitments in order to provide a steadier stream of committed funds. Those of you that have made one time donations, thank you for your generosity, but please consider repeating your donation on a recurring basis.
Turtleback Education Foundation
15855 Turtleback Road
San Diego, CA, 92127
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We are keeping a close eye on progress towards our financial goals and we are having a great first year!
You can also help
by volunteering your time to fundraising activities.
Email us at tbkfdn@gmail.com
if you have a great idea or you want to get involved.