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!

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.

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

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!

1. Introductions and Overview
2. Review Minutes
3. District needs – dollar a day, music
4. Treasury report – endowment fund meeting
5. Annual Distribution %
6. Mt. Charlie Challenge Update
7. Business Partnership Program
8. Board Recruitment
9. Other Business
10. Next Meeting -April 15th

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

Members of Scotts Valley Rotary contribute to The Rotary Foundation, along with over 1 million other Rotarians and friends of Rotary.  The Rotary Foundation uses these funds for polio eradication, humanitarian grants, and educational programs world-wide.