M. Adams shared the most recent preliminary fundraising results through 6/30/2021, which have not been reconciled with Finance yet since D. Clayton-Purvis is on vacation. A more finalized report on how much was raised last school year will be shared at the August Development and Board Meetings. M. Adams shared that L. Hancock, E. Dudkiewicz and K. Mines have left the Development Committee. L. Norton will likely be working on the Strategic Planning Committee and L. Borges Ferro is on maternity leave until September. With the limited resources available, the committee decided to table the grants subcommittee for now and focus on Annual Fund. M.. Hayes and L. Clark suggested posting on Volunteer Match and Linkedin to find additional volunteers to help with GLOBE's fundraising efforts. M. Hayes agreed to help with that task.

A new Annual Fund Challenge will launch this school year on August 1 and will run through August 31. The goal of the challenge is to increase participation in the Annual Fund within the school community. Any donation amount counts as participation and the class at each campus with the highest participation rate by August 31 wins a popsicle party and a GLOBE branded surprise. The Committee reviewed the flyer that L. Clark created and agreed it will be passed out at orientation and will be sent home in students' communication folders once school starts. The committee also discussed promoting the challenge during school orientation. M. Adams asked for volunteers to man the tables at each campus. M. Adams will also ask the board members to assist at the table. The Committee will create a separate webpage for the challenge on the website and promote updates on the website, social media platforms and weekly emails throughout August. L. Hise suggested having exclusive prizes at the table for parents who make an Annual Fund donation during orientation. Checks and online donations will be accepted. There will be tiered prizes depending on the amount given, but all donations will receive a prize. The committee brainstormed ideas for prizes and came up with water bottles, notebooks and pens, lunch boxes, pop sockets, lanyards ad keychains. L. Hise will help with getting quotes for prizes. The recommended amount to give to Annual Fund per student is $400 per student and that can be divided up into monthly payments of $34. The committee decided to table working on a video or creating anything that would go in the classrooms due to limited resources and manpower. M. Adams will compile a summary of next steps and send to committee members to review.

The Committee briefly reviewed the fundraising pages on the websites and M. Adams discussed the changes she was planning to make. L. Norton worked on revisions of the Annual Fund page that were distributed to the committee for review. L. Hise suggested adding more visuals and images to break up the text on the page, which the committee will work on over the next year. Any other changes to the pages need to be sent to M. Adams by July 23. She will work with M. Brown on getting the revisions made before the start of the school year.

L. Hise will help delegate the work to start looking for GLOBE Trot sponsors in August while L. Ferro Borges is on maternity leave.

The committee agreed to table the work for this subcommittee until we can find additional volunteers to help.

The entire Development Committee is focused on the Annual Fund tasks since the upcoming challenge is the priority. M. Adams also discussed how she's working on donor recognition tasks and thank you letters to wrap up the last school year before the new one begins.

The Committee's next steps are: 

1. M. Adams to pull together details of Annual Fund Challenge and orientation and send to the group to review and finalize. She will send the volunteer signup request to the Board for orientation. L. Hise to help get quotes for prizes.

2. Committee to review Support pages on website and send any additional changes to M. Adams by 7/23.

3. M. Hayes to assist in posting volunteer opportunities for small Development tasks on Volunteer Match and Linkedin.

The next Development Committee meeting is on August 19 and the next Board Meeting is on August 30.