NES Chromebook Rally
Supporting technology at Newtown Elementary School!
Dear Newtown Elementary Friends and Families,
The NES PTO is kicking off a direct fundraising campaign called the NES Chromebook Rally—and we need your help! Our goal is to raise funds to purchase 30 Chromebooks for Newtown Elementary students. Each Chromebook costs approximately $230, and our financial target is $7,000.
Explaining the Need:
At present, with the loss of the computer lab last year (due to space constraints) and the adoption of in-class Chromebook carts, the technology currently available to NES students looks like this:
- NES has 5 total carts of Chromebooks (30 units per cart).
- Grades 3-6 use 1 cart per grade level. Each cart serves 5 or more classrooms.
- Grades K-2, Humanities and Math Enrichment all share 1 cart.
- Put another way, we have 150 Chromebooks shared by 774 enrolled students.
While we are extremely fortunate to have this technology in our classrooms, sharing carts presents logistical challenges for teachers and limits student access. At our monthly PTO meetings, teachers expressed the idea that having additional Chromebooks would greatly benefit students at NES.
The NES PTO would like to address this need, while also continuing to fund our regularly-scheduled programs. Through monthly events and fundraisers, the PTO will continue to focus on building community, hosting family-fun events, and sustaining programs such as assemblies, the Science Fair, Time for Kids, First in Math, Reading Olympics, the sixth grade mural project, and more. However, we would like to attempt this special direct fundraising effort in order to meet the identified need for additional Chromebooks.
If you are interested in donating funds for the specific purpose of purchasing 30 Chromebooks and a cart, the PTO would welcome your generous donation in any amount. We are sensitive to family budgets, so if this appeal is not appropriate for your family at this time, that is certainly understood and respected. However, if you would like to assist in this fundraising campaign, we know it would directly benefit our students—and we felt it was worth asking!
- To make an online donation via PayPal or credit card, click HERE.
- To make a cash/check donation, please send your gift to school in an envelope marked NES PTO/Chromebook Rally. (Checks made payable to NES PTO.) You may send the envelope to school in your child’s backpack, or mail it to: Newtown Elementary School PTO, 1 Wrights Road, Newtown, PA 18940.
- The NES PTO, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and your donation is tax deductible. Donations are welcomed from parents, grandparents, businesses, co-workers, etc! (We will post an electronic copy of this letter and the donation link to the PTO listserve, Facebook and NESPTO.com, in case you’d like to help spread the word!) Also, check with your employer to see if corporate matching is offered.
Please note that funds raised by the PTO in the NES Chromebook Rally will be reserved explicitly for the purchase of Chromebooks and a cart, as specified above. If we do not reach our goal this year, designated funds will be carried forward until the goal is met. If we surpass this fundraising goal, the distribution of excess funds will be made at the discretion of the NES PTO for the benefit of Newtown Elementary Students.
Thank you for your consideration and support!
With gratitude and best wishes,
The NES PTO
Questions? Please contact the NES PTO at ptones.newsletter@gmail.com
Newtown Elementary School PTO, Inc.
Email: ptones.newsletter@gmail.com
Website: nespto.com
Location: 1 Wrights Road, Newtown, PA, United States