Final

River Valley Charter School

Development Committee Meeting

Published on March 22, 2024 at 8:46 AM EDT

Date and Time

Monday March 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM EDT

Location

River Valley Charter School, 2 Perry Way, Newburyport. Middle School Great Room

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Agenda

Section Number Topic Number Details Purpose Presenter Time
I. Opening Items 6:00 PM
  A. Call the Meeting to Order   Denise Herrera 1 m
  B. Record Attendance   Denise Herrera 1 m
  C. Review Previous Minutes Approve Minutes Elizabeth Rankin 3 m
II. RVCS 25 Anniversary 6:05 PM
  A. Update FYI Denise Herrera 5 m
   
  • Review the amount collected to date


 

 

 

  
  B. Next steps in the 25 year campaign Discuss Denise Herrera 10 m
   

Habits of Learning- 8 C's- 

  • April - Communication
  • May- Critical thinking
  • June - Looking back on the year

 

 

  
  C. Grounds Project Discuss Denise Herrera 30 m
   
  • Developments participation: Capital Campaign
    • Shift focus to 1 event for 25yr - end of year design reveal
  
  D. Read-A-Thon Update FYI Elizabeth Rankin 10 m
   

Read a thon started on wednesday 3/13 and ends wednesday 3/27

  • a little over half of enrolled students are participating
  • $12,600 raised = $10,100 for RVCS
  • 18,700k minutes recorded reading time
  • CONS while we do see names of donors, we don't get contact information for donors and aren't able to add them to database for further engagement. 20% goes to read a thon
  • PROS donors are once/year and can be "greater rvcs community", relatively light lift 20% committment pays for infrastructure that makes this an easy fund raiser, short duration, community building, repeatable there are additional resources to increase revenue for future read a thons. 
  • Summary - recommend as an annual event if we leverage all read a thon built in tools next year, including starting sooner, and engaging business sponsorhsips.
  • weakest participation is middle school - but hope to remedy by working with Colin who suggested changes next year
  • 2 surveys - one for families and one for staff to see where we can improve
  
  E. Founders Event Discuss Elizabeth Rankin 5 m
   

- Purpose: Reconnection/A reunion gathering

- doesn't focus on JLE but coincides with her departure

- give founders a chance to gather and reflect on how far the school has come and reconnect in some way

- What would this event look like? 

  
III. Closing Items 7:05 PM
  A. Adjourn Meeting Vote

THE ORDER OF BUSINESS MAY BE CHANGED WITHOUT NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the order of consideration of matters on this agenda may be changed without prior notice.

REASONABLE LIMITATIONS MAY BE PLACED ON PUBLIC TESTIMONY The Board Chair reserves the right to impose reasonable time limits on public testimony to ensure that the agenda is completed.