Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School

Minutes

Development Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Thursday January 13, 2022 at 5:45 PM

Location

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Committee Members Present

C. Staudenraus (remote), S. Stevens (remote), S. Zephirin (remote), T. McCoy (remote)

Committee Members Absent

C. Billings, M. Bryan, Y. Jones

I. Opening Items

A.

Record Attendance and Guests

B.

Call the Meeting to Order

S. Stevens called a meeting of the Development Committee of Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School to order on Thursday Jan 13, 2022 at 6:02 PM.

C.

Approve Minutes from 12/9/21

S. Zephirin made a motion to approve the minutes from Development Committee Meeting on 12-09-21.
C. Staudenraus seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

D.

Approve Minutes from 11/16/2020

S. Zephirin made a motion to approve the minutes from Development Committee Meeting on 11-16-20.
T. McCoy seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

II. Development

A.

Fundraising Gap and Goals

Sarita has a thermometer.  Will work to build a stand for it with some weather proofing. $45,585 collected in gap donations so far.  Need to confirm our total goal for the year.

B.

Communications Campaign/PR

Group discussed PR around open enrollment. Open enrollment starts tomorrow!  Team discussed that they spoken to people who were unaware you can apply to Arco after kinder.

C.

Grants

Sarita shared spreadsheet today of the grant opportunities.  Team to review and identify some that we could feasibly apply for.  Need to update the data.

 

Sarita shared information on grant from the TrailBlazers. She will email Chris for some ideas of what we could ask for.     
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schoolgrants?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=take_it_to_the_court&mkt_tok=NzQ3LVJSRS0wMTEAAAGBz4WLcKSmb1jzgFiJ1pFxaTaYxszwzvAj4vn6AC3Z8POCve4pDzxAqqAraZ02Bzsv4o8_Bxy0s8Y4v-BSZ6MA7Q8JeHD4XrdMj-uHsoNGKyPz

III. Closing Items

A.

Action Items

-Sarita to work on stand for thermometer
-Team to review grant spreadsheet
-Sarita to email Chris for ideas about TrailBlazers grant.  Tessa to gather updated data.
-Sarah to confirm our school goal for gap donations
-Social media posts regarding open enrollment.  Sarah Nextdoor, Sarita on Facebook groups.
-Next committee meeting on Feb 10th at 6pm
-Feb 3, 6pm  Sarita and Sarah to meet to put together grant application

 

B.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:48 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
S. Stevens