It is time to sign up for the 8th Annual Mt. Charlie Challenge Pledge Ride. Our ride will be held Saturday April 24, 2010.

We have two great routes to choose from and you can find all the details on our Mt. Charlie Challenge event page.

Print and fill out the Registration Form and Release Form and mail it in.

Training rides will start soon, weather permitting.

If you have questions, would like to be a sponsor or donate a raffle prize, please contact Aura Clendenen at 247-4805 clendenen@earthlink.net ,  or Mike Rein at 440-9835 mike@reinlaw.net, should you have any questions.

SVEF is holding a Mt. Charlie Challenge Pledge Ride meeting on Wednesday February 3rd.  It will be at SVMS’s Library at 7pm.  We welcome new volunteers to help with this fun event.  We need persons for the planning, rest stops, food organizing, volunteer coordinating, SAG vehicle drivers – lots of fun stuff.

Stay tune for the registration forms and training rides.  Get out those bikes and dust them off.

1. Introductions and SVEF Overview
2. Approve last months minutes
3. Treasurer’s Report
   • Tree Lot Finalizing
   • Letter Campaign To Date
4. Mt. Charlie Challenge April 24th Update
5. Business Partnership Program Update
   • Need to contact last new BPP
   • Letter to Business this month, combined with raffle prize request?
6. Ice Cream Social – need chairpersons
7. Tennis Tournament
8. Other Business
9. Next Meeting February 18th

We are happy to announce that our Christmas Tree Lot that we had in December brought in almost $15,000 net profit for our schools.

Again, we thank everyone that helped us to make that possible.

Scotts Valley Educational Foundation wishes everyone a Happy New Year!  May 2010 be a wonderful year!

I’d like to thank everyone for supporting our Christmas Tree Lot.  We sold out today, every tree on the lot!  We really appreciate all of our volunteers and customers, we obviously couldn’t do it without you.  We also want to put in a special thank you to the Scotts Valley Kiwanis group for everything they did, and our set up crew for building out the lot and our electricans – the Bustichi’s, Alexander’s and Strattford’s and many many more.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!

Come out and help raise funds for our schools by volunteering at the Christmas Tree Lot at the corner of Scotts Valley Drive and Disc Drive.  The volunteers need for each shift for this weekend are listed below:

• December 4^th 3:30- 6:30pm               1 volunteer needed
• December 5^th 6:30- 9:30pm              3 volunteers needed
• December 6^th 3:30- 6:30pm               1 volunteer needed
• December 12^th 6:30- 9:30pm            4 volunteers needed
• December 13^th 12:30- 4:00pm           4 volunteers needed
• December 13^th 3:30- 6:30pm              2 volunteers needed

Sign up here – mysignup.com

We need some strong adults to help out with the students, it is fun for the whole family.  We hope you can join us.

Thanks to the Press Banner for their recent article on our annual Christmas Tree Lot. Be sure to head over to Scotts Valley Thursday through Sunday any weekend before Christmas. You’ll find more details on the event page here.

Agenda November 19, 2009

1. Introductions and SVEF Overview
2. Approve last months minutes
3. Treasurer’s Report
4. Christmas Tree Lot – need SVEF board members take shifts
5. Kent Kurrus – Music Program Donation
6. Angel Auction
7. Mtn. Charlie April 24th – fill openings
8. Business Partnership Program Update

a. Distributed
b. New Members since Directories
c. Who Will be the BPP Coordinator?
d. Letter in February with Raffle prize request

9. Ice Cream Social – fill openings
10. Other Business
11. Next Meeting – December 17th at Christmas Tree Lot?

Congratulations to our local friends the Santa Cruz Education Foundation on their recent grant from the Packard Foundation. It’s great to see the approaches everyone takes to raising funds to support our local schools.

The Scotts Valley Educational Foundation raises money through events, business partners, and fundraising. We would love to expand our methods to include grants, but we need volunteers with the desire and commitment (and possibly experience) to help make this happen. If you’re interested, please contact us at info@svef.net to get involved.