Founders Day - February 13, 2019
We will follow the same format with each unit nominating ONE staff volunteer and ONE parent/grandparent/guardian volunteer that has made an impact in their school through their work with PTA. Middle school and high school units will also nominate ONE student PTSA member to be honored. I will need the nomination forms returned prior to the Christmas break (December 21, 2018) to have time to put the printed program together so start thinking about your nominees. I have created Google Forms to make this easier and to avoid misinterpretation of handwriting/spelling mistakes. Submit one form per nominee. Once submitted you will receive an email with the information you provided.
Parent/Teacher Nominee Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBfRUqSJz2TG25R_JYqQqTtee1B7VrYnPM9zpb8Wq76kU_Pg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Student Nominee Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct4h4iaKGvKoMj8btmVgqJGUPoSHci23hRxBXTyr4AZTSIBw/viewform?usp=sf_link
For those who may be new to PTA and Founders Day, it is our chance to celebrate PTA and everything you do for our schools and students. It involves dinner (and dessert!) and a program honoring the volunteers that are nominated by each unit as mentioned above. Each unit purchases one or more tables to allow the unit's executive board, principal(s) and honored guests to attend and there is a centerpiece contest with prizes.
We will again use the Reflections theme which is 'Heroes Around Me', so I hope you are all thinking of ideas for your amazing centerpieces. We hope to again do a slideshow highlighting all of the amazing events put on by our units so make sure you are taking pictures!
Invitation and RSVP information will be sent soon, but if you have questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Amanda Walworth Founders Day Chairperson
Livonia PTSA Council
Reflections Ceremony - January 15th
Reflections Entries Have Arrived!
Creative students from fourteen Livonia schools have submitted entries in this year's Reflections arts contest. Together, they have created over 120 works of art with the theme of "Heroes Around Me," spanning all six arts categories: visual arts, photography, literature, film production, dance choreography, and music composition.
In the coming days, we'll hand off the projects to our team of judges. Then we'll be finalizing our plans for the district-wide Reflections celebration on January 15th at Franklin High School PAC. Viewing of the projects will begin at 6:30 pm and the awards ceremony will start at 7 pm. Stay tuned for more details about how we'll celebrate the great work of our Reflections participants.
Debbie Yates
Reflections Council Chairperson
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Michigan PTA If you send membership checks to Michigan PTA, please make sure to use this new PO Box address. If you are emailing them documents use membership@michiganpta.org | LPS Education Foundation The PTSA Council was a table sponsor for the LPS Education Foundation. It was a great gathering of people supporting the foundation that supports LPS students. | MI PTA Advocacy Do you ever wonder what the dues you send to MI PTA are doing for you and your kids? Well, a portion goes to advocating for MI students. Samantha Phillips and Barb Anness work tirelessly to meet with legislators to discuss things that PTA members think are important for public education and students. They will be attending LegCon in March to do just that. You can join them. For more information join the Facebook group Michigan PTA Advocacy. |
Michigan PTA
LPS Education Foundation
MI PTA Advocacy
Member Hub Store - A Look Beyond Selling Memberships
DONATIONS - Churchill High School was able to collect $350 from adding a donation button in their store. Parents can donate at any time throughout the year. For example, if you are collecting money to use for Staff Appreciation luncheons. You can add a "Staff Appreciation Luncheon" button to your store and direct people there instead of them writing a check, sending it to the school with a student, in an envelope and then someone from the PTA has to collect all the checks and make a trip to the bank.
FUND RUN- Kennedy Elementary added a Fund Run button to their store and was able to collect donations from family & friends near and far. This is all done without the PTA losing a % of donations to a fun run company. Kennedy's PTA President, Sara Bennett, wrote a review on their experience. (SEE BELOW)
SPIRIT WEAR - If your school has mugs, bags or other items with your logo on them and you have a lot laying around take some pictures and sell them on the MH store.
SELLING TICKETS - If you are selling tickets to a dance or spring BBQ, add a button to the MH store. Add a memo line to include the teachers name so tickets can be sent home with students.
Kennedy's Fund Run & Member Hub
For this year's Fund Run, Kennedy Elementary utilized our MemberHub Store to collect donations. People were able to access the store's website without logging into MemberHub and donate to our school using a computer or phone and their credit card. We were able to create a link so people could donate only to our Fund Run. We were able to denote the $5 increments and allow the person donating to select how many $5's they wanted to donate. It made things super easy for people who are either out of town, not able to write a check, or who do not carry cash on them to donate at their leisure. They were also able to donate to multiple students in one school in one transaction. During our initial set up, we were able to set a date and time when the link was no longer active. That allowed us to automatically have the site shut down when we needed it to without going back into the system to shut it down on our own. When it came time to calculate the amount that was donated through our store's website, it was easy to upload and sort to a spreadsheet. However, there was not an easy way to access a quick total from the website, it needed to be downloaded into a spreadsheet first. In year's past, we had used PayPal and were met with so many headaches. It was extremely difficult to figure out which donation went to which student and for what dollar amounts, and whatnot. Using MemberHub made it so much easier and nicer to account for all of the donations made in honor of specific students. We really enjoyed working with our MemberHub Store to collect donations for our Fund Run, and enjoyed the ease of figuring out which donations went to which student for what dollar amount. We will be using MemberHub again for future use.
Sara Bennett - Kennedy PTA President
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