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 SVEF Overview
2. Review Minutes
3. District Needs – What we may fund?
4. Treasurer’s Report
5. Annual Distribution %
6. Mt. Charlie Challenge Update
7. Business Partnership Program
8. Board Recruitment
9. Dollar A Day program
10. Other Business
11. Next Meeting –May 20th

Mt. Charlie Challenge Meeting will be held before the SVEF meeting, from 6-7pm in the library.

1. Riders
2. Permit
3. Sponsors
4. Music
5. Raffle Prizes
6. Training Rides
7. Supplies
8. Poster Distribution
9. Next Meeting, next week

Registration
You can still register on Active.com or through our website.
Registration amount is now $100. since there isn’t much time to get pledges.

Scotts Valley Educational Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit fundraising organization that raises money for Scotts Valley Public Schools.

Who we are

Our board is made up of 17 – 19 members. We have parents of our students, community members, teachers, principals, and administration from within our school district.

Our executives

We’re always looking for more help, and we have some openings available on our current board for next year. The board consists of the following positions: President, Vice President, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Marketing Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator, and Directors.

How we raise our money

We host key fundraising events such as the Mt. Charlie Challenge, Ice Cream Social, Christmas Tree Lot, and Letter Campaign. We also are often a part of other organizations events. For example, the Rotary had Oktoberfest and contributed to SVEF. Kiwanis held Music in the Park in combination with SVEF. San Augustin shared their donations from the Angels Auction with SVEF. The Tutoring Club and Elite Martial Arts donate member initiation fees to SVEF when mentioning us.

What we do with the money

We keep a reserve of cash for operating expenses.  We roll a percentage of our annual income into our Endowment Fund that was created in 2009. The balance we can distribute to Scotts Valley Unified School District to save a program of our choosing.

How we decide what to fund

Every spring we research and analyze what is needed to help the schools. We get recommendations from the principals and we discuss as a board to make our decisions. We traditionally have not funded salaries directly. We have funded saving the Music Program, Libraries, Technology, and the Dollar-a-Day Program. We try to contribute to all four schools in our district evenly.

We occasionally have a donation that is given for a particular school and we just pass it through. As an example, for a few years The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz had a client that wanted to donate a fairly large sum anonymously to Brook Knoll Elementary School and SVMS. There was a few stipulations and we had to handle special reporting on it. For SVEF it was a pass through. We gained community awareness and were able to handle the donations as a non-profit entity.

Going forward

We will continue to have our regular fundraisers. We will handle the Dollar A Day program for our district. Our district needs to raise $950,000 for the general funding for year 2011/12 in order to stay where we will be for year 2010/11. We need to do this through a Dollar A Day campaign in conjunction with the SVUSD moving forward on a Parcel Tax.

To get involved

We are have our next SVEF Meeting on April 15th and there is a collective group of parents, teachers, board members and administration personnel coming up with the plan on what steps to implement for Dollar a Day. Email Charlotte if you would like to be involved in the campaign.

For Parcel Tax campaign you can contact Michael Shulman, to get involved.

Donate now to Scotts Valley Educational Foundation via mail or use the donate button on any page on this website. You may also do a recurring payment through our website through our Help Us page.

Brand New Bicycle from Cyclesport
Some misc bike stuff from Cyclesport
Dude Girl Bicycling jersey
Plantronics Headset
Chaminade Gift Certificate
Scotts Valley Hilton Gift Certificate
Four $15 I-Tunes Card
A Teeth whitening gift certificate
Five $10 certificates Palace Arts & Supplies
Four $10 certificates Sports Basement
Two Deep tissue or Swedish massage gift certificate from Awaken Massage Therapy
Three $25. gift certificate from Sprockets
1/2 lb coffee Peets Coffee and a free drink
Four Energetixs Outdoor Workout package gift certificate
Gift Certificate Scotts Valley Chinese
Two Soy Vay gift baskets
Two pizza at Pizza My Heart gifts
Three Seagate Technology Hardware gifts
20 gallon fish tank from Round Up Pets
Various Wine Gifts

If you are a rider you can still sign up by printing out the forms and mailing them in. Registration is $45. until April 10th, then it jumps to $100. Registration closes two days before the ride. Sign up today!

Meeting tonight!

Wednesday March 24, 2010 at SVMS library at 7pm. Please join us. We will discuss:

1. Riders
2. Permit
3. Sponsors
4. Music
5. Raffle Prizes
6. Training Rides
7. Press
8. Poster Distribution
9. Next Meeting

You can now sign up on Active.com for the Mt. Charlie Challenge Pledge Ride. Our ride is Saturday April 24, 2010.  Make sure you are looking at the 8th Annual SVEF Mt. Charlie Challenge, the 7th Annual on Active is closed.  If you have any questions, contact Aura Clendenen at 247-4805,  or Mike Rein at 440-9835.

We would love for you to come help us in our planning, ride the event or be a sponsor!

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.

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

Our Volunteers were incredible again.  We had our core bike committee group, SAG persons, rest stop persons, and some great volunteers from our Educational Foundation, Kiwanis and Scotts Valley High School Key Club, Century 21 Showcase and many many others.  Thank you all.

Donations can still be mailed into SVEF at 4444 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste 5b, Scotts Valley, CA 95066