F.W. Parker Charter Essential School

Minutes

October DevComm Meeting

Date and Time

Tuesday October 5, 2021 at 7:30 AM

Location

Virtual-
Katrina Tedstone is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: DevComm October Meeting
Time: Oct 5, 2021 07:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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This meeting will be held virtually via Zoom and can be accessed by committee members and the public at this link: http://parker.school/developmentcommittee

Committee Members Present

D. Osofsky (remote), J. Saxe (remote), K. Tedstone (remote), L. Acton (remote), L. Mitchell (remote), M. Cole (remote), M. McKenna (remote), M. Smith (remote), M. VanderWilden (remote), S. Cassat Green (remote), S. Reinhorn (remote), T. Sumner (remote)

Committee Members Absent

J. Churchill

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

K. Tedstone called a meeting of the Development Committee of F.W. Parker Charter Essential School to order on Tuesday Oct 5, 2021 at 7:30 AM.

C.

Approve Minutes

J. Saxe made a motion to approve the minutes from DevComm June Meeting on 06-02-21.
M. Smith seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.

II. Development 2020-2021

A.

Norms review

Katrina presented the norms that were adopted in October of 2017.  There were no additions or changes made.

B.

Look back to FY21

The group looked at the BOT report with the following three prompts in mind:
1. What I notice is...
2. What I wonder is...
3. Where do I see myself helping?

The largest areas of interest were:
1. Storymining
2. Culture of Giving
3. Leadership Gifts

Notes from conversation:
-Raising current parent participation
-Addressing declining graduate family participation
-Keep working on leadership gifts
-Alumni engagement

C.

Our Essential Commitment Fund

The Fund materials were made available for the group to see.

Katrina outlined the roll-out of the fund and how we are introducing new families to the Fund.

D.

Endowment Exploration

Brief overview given.  Will discuss at a future meeting

E.

Community Conversations

Katrina will send out the dates to see if anyone has availability to attend.

Also the materials used for these conversations were provided for feedback outside of the meeting

F.

Grant Work- Alumni Work

Not enough time- will update in November

III. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 8:30 AM.

Respectfully Submitted,
K. Tedstone