F.W. Parker Charter Essential School
Minutes
May 2023 DevComm Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday May 3, 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, G. Tang, J. Churchill, S. Cassat Green
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
Current Families- see previous section
Alumni- a push will happen after the in-person event this weekend
Graduate Families- we need 6 more donor to hit goal
C.
Grant materials
Van proposal feedback
-seems labor intensive, but good marketing opportunity
-Can we get stats on how often there are conflicts and/or what things could happen if we had an additional van?
-could we use this as an option for students on wednesdays?
Courtyard Retreat feedback
-involve students in planning and maintenance of the space
-Switch Parker's courtyard heading with Health and Wellbeing
-Emphasizing Creating and Redefining the heart of our school
-Can we do current photos next to the digital new photos?
D.
Mission Statement
Mission Statement feedback
-Think about this in terms of "here's what we do and this is how I see myself in this work"
-SHould there be two versions? An internal document vs. and externally facing one?
-COmmittee goals #1 and #10 are most important
-The Strategic Planning process is going to inform this work
-Organize the sections with goals, objectives, new projects?
The group went over the statistics from the Current Family Challenge to plan for the next three weeks. We have 14 more new family donors to meet our goal.
Verbiage for weekly email:
-Let's see how far we can go
-Help us Gateway
-We underestimated our goal
-Join brand new families who are giving