Enhancing the Education
of Turtleback Students
L A T E S T U P D A T E ! ! !
Superintendent Don Phillips issued a budget update on February 4th to all parents. Read his very important message here.
New !!! 
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Read the Foundation Urgent Message dated Dec 1st 2009
Read Superintendent Don Phillips Nov 17th 2009 letter
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.
Parent & Child Dance - create a theme, decorations, invitations, activities for the event.
Wine & Cheese Event - 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.
In January we saw a continuation of significant donations, $1,716 was banked in the month. There was no other income from events, the proceeds from the Chuck e Cheese day are yet to arrive. 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:
Year to date income is now $9,368. Two thirds of this comes directly from donations, the balance from recycling proceeds and fundraising events. Soon we hope to be realizing income from our eScrip registration. If you have not already signed up, please follow this link to check it out.
Once again, thank you for your support and generosity!
Working with Principal Dr. Campbell, our goals for the year were established before the school year started. These goals and the progress made to date can be seen in more detail on the Funding Priorities page. The initial target for this school year is to raise $10,000 for instructional supplies for which there are no funds from the school district this year. Beyond this there are other funding needs raising the total objective for the year to $20,000 or more if possible.
A further $1,500 award was made to the school in December bringing the year to date total to $7,000. 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. For October onwards, the recurring donations amount increases with recent commitments from several parents, but we would like to see this number rise further in order to provide a steadier stream of committed funds. Those of you that made one time donations in the last three months, 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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If you are not able to commit to a recurring donation, please consider using the secure payment link on the site to make a one time donation while you are here.
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We are keeping a close eye on progress towards our financial goals and we have made a great start to this school year.
We are almost half way to our goal already, but we're counting on you to help us keep the momentum!
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.