Community Day is on Saturday, September 18th. This is a day for our WHOLE community to come together to raise money for Scotts Valley public schools by shopping, dining, and playing at our local businesses. To read more about our Community Day event click here.

Below is a list of the current businesses participating and will be edited frequently as businesses are added and details are determined.

• Aunt Lali’s Treats – 10% of sales
• Baskin Robbins – TBD
• Bruno’s Barbeque – 10% of sales
• Canepa Design – 100% of Group Tours
• Club One, Inc. – TBD
• DVD To Go – TBD
• Elite Martial Arts Academy – 100% of proceeds from Bully Buster “How to Defeat the Bully Without Fighting” seminar. Seminar is from 1:00pm-2:00pm with pizza served afterward. $20 one child, $10 each additional sibling.
• Papa Murphy’s Pizza Take & Bake- $2 from every regular pizza ordered in Scotts Valley (no coupons allowed), when Community Day is mentioned.
• Postal Annex – TBD
• Round Table Pizza – 15% of sales on non-discounted/non-couponed sales in Scotts Valley
• Rub A Dub Dog – 50% of each wash, when Community Day is mentioned.
• Santa Cruz Pasta Factory – 30% of proceeds
• Scotts Valley Carpet Cleaning – Call on September 18th to schedule a carpet cleaning and receive 20% off, with an additional 20% going to the SVEF.
• Scotts Valley Cycle Sport – TBD
• Scotts Valley Market – TBD
• Togo’s – $1 will be donated for every combo (drink and chips) added to an order in Scotts Valley

We have raised $25,300 for Dollar a Day. Thank you to all of you who have contributed, we are a step forward in helping our schools. Those of you who haven’t had a chance to contribute yet, you can send your tax deductible donation to SVEF, 245-M Mt. Hermon Road, Box 150, Scotts Valley, CA 95066.

Have you noticed the new banners outside of each of the schools? Check it out when you get a chance. We will be updating these as our donations increase.

We have reached $22,000. for our Dollar A Day campaign! Lets keep working at it. You will soon see banners posted at each of the schools to show the progress through out the year of where we are on our fundraising goals. We are showing the goal of $950,000 for SVUSD, for the school year 20011_12. Hopefully that will be raised in many ways, not only through SVEF but we still will show the full goal for the district overall.

Tell your friends and neighbors to contribute, if they can. Next year it will only get harder to make cuts to a budget that is already way too low. Help where you can. You can go to our “Help Us” page to donate through PayPal, or send in a check to SVEF, 245-M Mt. Hermon Road, Box 150, Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Thank you to all of SVEF supporters!

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Community Day

When: September 18, 2010

What: A day for our WHOLE community to come together to raise money for Scotts Valley public schools.

How to raise money: Have garage sales, bake sales and boost businesses so they can donate a percentage of their day’s proceeds.

How to help:

1. Have a garage sale and donate some or all of the money to the schools.
2. Donate some of your household items to someone else who would have a garage sale for the school.
3. Be a neighborhood coordinator for garage sales and bake sales
4. If you have a business, consider donating a percentage of your proceeds on for September 18th.
5. Join the Business Partnership Program and get a great value on advertising the all four schools phone directories.
6. Join our committee to make calls and visits to businesses over the summer to get them on board with our community day.
7. Encourage friends and families to donate to the Dollar a Day campaign that day. Remind them to have their company match their donation.
8. Go to www.svef.net and fill in the sign up form for Community Day. Or email the following information to info@svef.net:

a. Name
b. Address
c. Phone number
d. Email address
e. Job or donation you would like to do

Please contact Gina Johnson at ginatjohnson@sbcglobal.net or 334-1640 to help or for more information.

We have raised $14,530 net since we started our current campaign on May 15th. This number includes one time donations and monthly recurring donations.

Thank you everyone, let’s keep it going up!

The community is invited to come help plan a Community Day Fundraiser. A meeting will be held at the Scotts Valley Community Center, 360 Kings Village Road, by the Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday June 1st from 7-9pm in the main room.

A few parents in our district went to a meeting in Saratoga about the Cupertino School District’s “Their Future Is Now!” campaign that demonstrated parent power to work on their education issues. They were very successful and raised $2.2 million for their schools, and were gracious enough to invite others to share information on how they did it. Our parents came away with a wealth of information.

On Tuesday we will focus on planning a Community Day right here in Scotts Valley. We will set a date and sign up people for various tasks to make it happen. We will explain how the Community Day ties into the Dollar a Day Campaign and the Business Partnership Program.

We will send out an agenda meeting reminder to those that want to be included. You can email Charlotte at charlotte@svef.net and ask to be on that distribution.

Hope to see you Tuesday!

Come one, come all! Everyone is welcome!

Agenda

1. Introductions and overview
2. Review minutes
3. Treasury report
4. Funding for 2010_11
5. Dollar a day
6. Board recruiting – open positions
7. Fundraising ideas
8. Business Partnership Program
9. Other Business
10. Next Meeting -June 17th

If you have any changes or additions to this agenda, please email Charlotte or call 334.7279. More information can be found at our SVEF Website.

Mt. Charlie Challenge was a big success!
SVEF has raised about $27,000 net for our schools! Mt.Charlie Challenge Pledge Bike Ride was a smashing success on April 24 thanks to all our riders, sponsors, contributors and volunteers. There was perfect weather, great food, fun family BBQ, and fabulous music from SVHS band, Conniption, and the SVHS drumline. Click on the link here to see a slide show. Special thanks to Aura Clendenen and Mike Rein for running the event.

We would like to also thank all of our sponsors. Please check out our Mt. Charlie Challenge event page to see a listing.

Executive Board Recruiting
Scotts Valley Educational Foundation (SVEF) is currently recruiting executive board members. SVEF provides funding for enrichment programs and education materials to enhance the solid academic curriculum and maintain the high quality of education in the Scotts Valley Unified School District. SVEF is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Typical fundraising events SVEF host each year include Mt. Charlie Challenge, Ice Cream Social, Christmas Tree Lot and Dollar A Day Campaign. We are a 100% volunteer organization, consisting of parents, teachers, school administration, and community members. Excellent schools are the cornerstone of a successful community.

Please consider being a part of our organization, by contacting Charlotte Multer at charlotte@svef.net.

We will have our monthly meeting next Thursday May 20th. Please join us. Scotts Valley Middle School library at 7pm.

Dollar A Day Campaign Kick Off
We finished the Mt. Charlie Challenge and now we are kicking off the Dollar A Day Campaign.
In the past few years, funding for our school district has decreased by close to $1 million a year – a decrease of nearly $1000 per student. To live within the funding allowance, our school district has had to cut positions, services and programs at the district office and all school sites. These cuts include hours of administrators, teachers, counselors, the district nurse, instructional assistants, custodians, secretaries and more. We have increased class sizes at all sites. All administrators have voluntarily taken furlough days to help balance the budget. Experts predict that we will not be back to our 2007 funding level until 2013-14.

We need to bring in additional revenues to lessen the devastating effects of future cuts beginning now.

The Scotts Valley Educational Foundation has volunteered to collect funds from families and friends to offset future cuts of the people and programs that serve our students.

You will be receiving home a letter to help us in kicking off the Dollar A Day Campaign. We hope you will give what you can to make a difference for our students!

____ $30 a month through a PayPal Subscription (see below to sign up for that)
____$365 sponsor (support a single child in our schools)
____$730 sponsor (supports 2 or more children)
____$1000 sponsor (for your family +one other that may not be able to donate)
____other (please specify amount) even a $10. donation helps

You can make a donation to SVEF from any page of our website at www.svef.net. You can also schedule monthly recurring donations using the Subscribe button on the “Help Us” page of the website. Or you may write a check to SVEF and send it to:

Scotts Valley Educational Foundation (SVEF)
245-M Mt. Hermon Road, Box 150
Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Thank you for any contribution you can make!

Remember to check out all of our generous sponsors on our event page.  We couldn’t do this ride without them.

Thank you Mt. Charlie Sponsors!!

The Mt. Charlie Challenge ride is this Saturday and we are stoked and ready! We have decided to keep registration open and let new riders sign up on ride day

• Check-In and Registration is at 7-8am
• Rain or Shine – but we expect a great day!
• Bring all pledges that you have collected in an envelope with your name on it, along with raffle tickets to turn in
• Mass start at 8:00am for the 100k and the 50k will go out right after

Registration Forms
At the check-in and registration area, there will be a table with the information and forms listed immediately below. As part of the County requiring us to obtain a permit this year, the County is requiring our riders to sign a “conditions agreement”. The agreement will be available at check-in for you to sign. It’s also printed at the bottom of this email for your review. Here’s the forms and information you’ll find at the check-in tables:

• Waivers for riders that didn’t send them in yet
• Additional registration forms for new riders
• Maps of each route – they have support phone numbers on them
• Full listing of turns for both routes
• County’s conditions agreement

On the Ride

Rest stops and SAG support:

• The SAG vehicle and all rest stops will have some first aid and water. The SAG can pick you up if you need help or have just had enough.
• Rest stops will have a list of riders, please let them know when you come through.
• Rest stops will have food, drinks and happy faces.
• Rest stops and SAG finish up at 2:00, let them know if you would like a ride back.

Last but not least
Come back to Skypark behind the recreation building and join in our family BBQ, we’ll have live music. Bring the family and friends and have them meet you there. Lunch is served between 11:30 and 3. We will have skirt steak, chicken, hot dogs and veggie burgers, along with salad, garlic bread, drinks and desserts. Additional lunch tickets can be purchased there. We will hold our raffle at 2:00. Cycle Sport will be giving away a brand new cruiser bike and there are quite a few more prizes.

Let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you Saturday for another AWESOME Mt. Charlie Challenge.

Please review the conditions below:

I, as a Mt. Charlie Challenge rider, acknowledge the following:

1. I will abide by all applicable state and local vehicular laws. This includes, but is not limited to, riding as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of roadway and obeying stop signs and traffic signals. Bicyclists riding more than one abreast shall yield to vehicular traffic.
2. I understand certain obstacles exist along the roadways which could cause injury to riders. Attention is hereby directed to the many sign posts, utilities, curbs medians, guardrails, retaining walls, pavement markings, delineators, barricades, road bumps, etc.
3. I will dispose of paper cups, food wrappers, or any other trash generated in the receptacles provided by the event organizer at the designated rest stops.
4. I will use the restroom facilities provided by the event organizers at the designated rest stops. Burrell School Winery, The Frandle’s resident or Aptos Fire Station.
5. I understand I could be cited by law enforcement officials for violating the California Vehicle Code or Santa Cruz County regulations will be automatically disqualified, and could result in enforcement action.