Re: Sagamore Hills Elementary Foundation :)

[Dave Allen Barker Jr]

I'd like to suggest we utilize the following while working.

Want to talk?  Email found...@sagamorehillspta.org .  All of the people Lara initially messaged will receive it, and you don't have to keep track of who interested because they can sign up to (or choose not to) receive messages themselves.  See the Sagamore Hills PTA groups for details.

Collect and share documents?  Park them in the Foundation folder of the PTA's Google Drive.

Invite the curious to get up to speed by pointing them at a foundation webpage (anyone can update it).

Please hit me with any feedback.

On 01/28/2015 11:14 AM, Lara Baldwin wrote:

Disclaimer:

I have sent you all this email because I think you might be a lawyer and understand this stuff!? 

Or maybe you have a connection to lawyery-type people?

Or maybe you're good at writing grants?

Or I was thinking you might be interested in getting a foundation started for Sagamore?

Or you don't even have kids here yet, but you might want to get involved already? Right? Why not?!! :)

Yes, I said it. A FOUNDATION for Sagamore Hills Elementary! It's time!

Peter Steckel, who has two children at Sagamore, is a lawyer and has graciously offered to get things started, legally that is. He has foundation templates and can get things going! So let's get this thing going! I've heard people talk about this ever since I've been at Sagamore. I heard there was a committee a few years ago and things were in motion, but it fizzled out because people get busy. LET'S TRY AGAIN! THIS IS OUR MOMENT!

As far as I know, Sagamore is one of the only schools in our area without a foundation. We could use if for many things. For example:

1 - more ipads! more laptops!

2 - better playground, even handicap accessible!

3 - painting the inside and outside of the school!

4 - update the bathrooms!

5 - supplement STEM committee teachers' salaries! (they work after school for free, and they're doing such an amazing job!)

6 - apply and get grants for wonderful things that our school and students and teachers need!

On the committee we would have a person or two who is dedicated to searching for and bringing in grants for our school!

We could have a during-the-school-day FUN RUN (get pledges per lap) this Spring or next Fall as a Foundation Fundraiser to get (from what I hear these fun runs are quite successful) $20,000-$40,000 to help get things going with our foundation funds.

These are just ideas off the top of my head. I don't really know much about foundations or how to get them started, but I do know that my younger daughter at Coralwood is benefiting everyday from things that the Coralwood foundation made possible for its students and teachers. Sagamore could use a foundation too. I think a lot of parents, grandparents, neighborhood folk, etc would be very eager to contribute to Sagamore's Foundation.

Please email me back if you're interested in being on the Foundation Committee or even helping out in any capacity. For now, we would need a committee of five or six (I'm guessing on that number!) to get things going. We will also need someone to head the foundation, so if you're interested in that, please let me know!

Thank you :)

Lara