The GLOBE Academy
Minutes
GLOBE Development Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday August 18, 2022 at 1:00 PM
Vision: To develop globally minded citizens who have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effect positive change in our world.
Mission: The GLOBE Academy fosters Global Learning Opportunities through Balanced Education for children of all backgrounds. With a focus on dual-language immersion, an experiential-learning model, and a constructivist approach, GLOBE inspires students to be high- performing lifelong learners equipped to make a positive impact in the world.
Core Values: The GLOBE Academy’s core values are expressed in the acronym, CREST: Community, Respect, Empathy, Sustainability and Trust. These values are expected of the governing board, faculty, staff, parents, and students. They are woven into daily life at GLOBE and incorporated into the curriculum.
Community: We are inclusive, and we nurture and support one another.
Respect: We treat ourselves and each other with kindness and dignity.
Empathy: We strive to understand and share the feelings of others.
Sustainability: We aim to conserve our resources for optimal use in the present and future.
Trust: We are committed to honesty, transparency, and respectfully sharing our thoughts and encouraging others to do the same.
Committee Members Present
D. Clayton-Purvis (remote), L. Clark (remote), L. Ferro Borges (remote), M. Adams (remote), M. Hayes (remote)
Committee Members Absent
A. Rodden, D. Reynolds
Guests Present
orenliati@gmail.com (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
C.
Approve Minutes from 5/19/2022
D.
Fundraising Update
II. General Development Committee Priorities
A.
Annual Fund Campaign
MH provided an update of the annual fund campaign as of today :
- Cash & Checks during orientation $5K
- Bloomerang as of today 8/18 $22K
- LF mentioned that still some donation were being tagged as Annual fund 21/22 . She discovered that the original schedule of the donation needs to be updated in order to get all future donation tagged to Annual fund 22/23. LF is going to work on getting all recruiting donations updated
- MH will be working on updating the participation based on the roaster she recently received from the school . If she has any question DC offered to help with the roaster.
-MA suggested to do some of the same activities she did last year to push the donations including :
-Sending email blast on a different day than the newsletter with the Annual fund campaign update
-Update the website with the details about how the current campaign is doing and participation per class (MH and LC will work on sending updates to Simon)
-Post on Facebook (MA offered to post on both facebook pages)
-Prizes: MH will check the amount of prices she has left from Orientation to see if she has enough for the top 3 classes . 1st place will get popsicle party . MA suggested to contact king of pops as soon as possible. Also the date for the popsicle party needs to be discussed with Head of Schools
B.
Capital Campaign
Presentation did not happen
III. Subcommittee Discussions
A.
Fundraising Events Subcommittee
LF update about GLOBE Trot platform - 3 vendors have been contacted for demos :
- Givebutter: Friday Sep 9th at 3:00 pm
- QGive: Thursday Sep 8th 3:00 pm
- Kindful: They are actually own by Bloomerang and would be the preferred option. They are going to contact us to schedule the demo
LF will be adding next week on the weekly newsletter a quick note about GLOBE Trot and a save the date
B.
Annual Fund Subcommittee
IV. Closing Items
A.
Committee Next Steps
- Next Development Committee meeting Thursday September 15th 1:00pm - Google meets
- Next Board meeting Monday September 29th 7:00pm - Zoom
Fundraising report from QuickBooks shows $306 in annual fund donations so far , however, report is delayed at least a month . As of today Bloomerang shows $22K in annual fund donations
LF: Asked MA about allocation of the Goal. MA suggested to revisit the allocation based on actual donations from Last school year