River Valley Charter School
Minutes
Development Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Monday March 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Location
River Valley Charter School, 2 Perry Way, Newburyport. Middle School Great Room
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Committee Members Present
C. Getz, D. Herrera, E. Rankin, J. Evans, L. Sisson, M. Connerton, T. Murdy
Committee Members Absent
A. Hromadka
I. Opening Items
A.
Call the Meeting to Order
B.
Record Attendance
C.
Review Previous Minutes
II. RVCS 25 Anniversary
A.
Update
B.
Next steps in the 25 year campaign
C.
Grounds Project
- Grounds redesign survey offered an opportunity for families to help in the fundraising and Dev Com will reach out to them to see how people want to assist.
- Spring Event to share the design schematics and launch Capital Campaign:
- 2 hr event, speaking program, visual tour of schematics,
- Need location: The Phoenix Room, TITO tent, Mission Oak, Cider Hill, Riverwalk Brewery, Barewolf Brewing....
- Fall event- bigger, celebrate 25 years!
- 2 hr event, speaking program, visual tour of schematics,
- We need a Board Liaison to assist with the grounds redesign committee work- will get a new timeline from Copley to see who has bandwidth.
D.
Read-A-Thon Update
- Started on 3/13 and ends on 3/17- raised almost 14K which is 11K to RVCS
- A little over half students are enrolled, 25K minutes
- 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% commitment 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
- 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
- Does Read-A Thon send out Tax Credit info
- Next Year: Tie read- a thon messaging around RVCS mission
- Development Committee recommends for next year
E.
Founders Event
- small event for founders
- still need to flesh out details
Habits of Learning- 8 C's-
• April - Communication - Participating in "Communicating the Vision" with the LAs- More to come after Thursday's meeting
• May- Critical thinking
• June - Looking back on the year