F.W. Parker Charter Essential School
Minutes
April DevComm Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday April 5, 2023 at 8:00 AM
Location
This meeting will be a hybrid in-person/zoom meeting and can be accessed by committee members and the public at this link: http://parker.school/developmentcommittee
Committee Members Present
B. Harrigan, H. Pierpont, J. Saxe (remote), K. Tedstone, L. Acton (remote), L. Mitchell (remote), M. Cole, M. Kosinski-Collins (remote), M. Smith (remote), N. Perrotti, S. Cole (remote), S. Reinhorn (remote)
Committee Members Absent
C. Jaffee, J. Churchill, S. Cassat Green
Guests Present
Ginny Tang (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes
II. Development 2022-2023
A.
Fund statistics
B.
Parker Fund constituency work
Graduate families- email went out 4/3 using quotes from seven graduate parents from through the years. The entire quotes are on Parker's website https://www.theparkerschool.org/support-parker/our-graduate-parents
Current families- appeal details are still being finalized. It will go out early next week.
Alumni- their appeal will go out after the in-person event on 5/6
The group brainstormed ideas around the sticker draft presented. It will be used as a thank you for donations.
Sticker suggestions:
-important to say thank you
-"less is more" in terms of wording
-look into size- 2-3 inch?
-use the year so that we could do others in different colors from year to year
C.
Alumni Council
In person event at Clover Road Brewery in Hudson, MA. Being publicized on social media and through email.
D.
Mission Statement
Did not have time to devote to this. We will put this on the May agenda.
III. Other Business
A.
Grant exploration
Two initiatives that Parker is exploring for funding were explained and feedback was welcomed.
-The Courtyard garden- reimagining the courtyard space
Feedback
- questioning using the word "therapeutic"
- this is responsive to the stress/anxiety teenagers are feeling
-The Transportation project
- could there be DEI philanthropic dollars for a project like this?
- pilot a small version of this using one van
- could be very helpful in making it possible for more families to come to Parker
Katrina updated the group as to the status of the fund. The total is lower than last year at this point because we have decided to do the spring push this year in April instead of March.