BRIDGING THE GAP: Win-Win Collaborative T.E.A.M.
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uring our 98th Georgia Convention Leadership Training (CLT) held in Athens, GA our total 2012 Raffle earnings for our GA PTA Student Scholarship Endowment Fund yielded $1,636.00. Previous earnings were: 2011: ($833), 2010 ($662), 2009 ($1492). THANK YOU to each Raffle Committee member volunteer for your devotion and hard work; as well as to every PTA delegate, Business Sponsor, Partner, and Donor for all of your in-kind (basket, cash, gift card/certificate, etc.) donations and point of sales contributions for the success of this note worth cause.
Community Alliance Partnership – CAP Program 98 PTA Delegates registered for our “Win-Win Collaborative T.E.A.M…Grow Your Mind, Grow Your Money” workshop at this year’s CLT. Dewanna King, GA PTA Resource Development Chair and Randall Ware, Community Alliance Partner (CAP) Coordinator / GA PTA Partner, presented about: • National PTA Standards for Family-School Partnerships (Standard 6: Community Collaboration) • National PTA Phoebe Apperson Hearst Family-School Partnership Awards (PTA Hearst Awards) • Best business practices and strategies for interviewing potential partners • Knowing your PTA target market • Utilizing online methods of marketing your PTA • Ways of staying connecting with partners and parents. Many of the (T)ogether (E)veryone (A)chieves (M)ore win-win strategies for long term PTA partnerships were covered during the CAP presentation; and questions were generated that continue to stir the quest for more work shop give away prizes, and side bar dialogs. If you would like to sign up for your PTA’s FREE CAP account; and, learn more about how the CAP Program can benefit your PTA. Go to http://www.gaptaperks.com/CAP_for_PTAs.html. Dewanna King, Resource Development Chair, Dewanna.King@yahoo.com and Randall Ware, CAP, rware@247econnect.com
“NEW” PTA Membership Card for 2012-2013
The new PTA membership card: • Is printed on upgraded paper stock which will allow handwriting and ease of printing with most basic home printers; • Is produced as four (4) cards per 8.5 x 11 sheet; • Includes fields for member name, local PTA unit name, membership year, and local unit ID number; • Includes both the National PTA Logo and the State PTA Logo; • Includes multiple colors and graphics enhancing PTA’s visual image; • Includes a ‘carrier’ that messages the benefits of membership and explains the activation process; • Reminds members they are a member of their local unit, State PTA and National PTA; • Contains a unique member ID number which must be used to activate the card.
August 2012
2012 Emerging Minority Leaders Conference September 21-23, 2012 • DoubleTree Washington, DC - Crystal City The PTA Emerging Minority Leaders Conference offers the perfect opportunity for you to continue building a national network of peers and to learn how to overcome the challenges you face as a PTA leader, community advocate, parent and/or caregiver. For six years, PTA’s Emerging Minority Leaders Conference has encouraged the development of new PTA leaders who can succeed in building bridges to ethnically diverse families to engage with PTA. Now in its seventh year, this conference has emerged as the premier family engagement program for training ethnically diverse leaders to serve underserved school populations. Destination Leadership VII: Excellence in Action is the leadership conference you will not want to miss. We hope you will join us in Washington, DC September 21–23, and encourage other dedicated parents in your school community to attend. You’ll learn about the issues that face ethnically diverse families in our nation’s school systems, develop your leadership skills, and have a chance share your experiences with others. You want to attend this conference if you: • Are an emerging minority leader • Are interested in increasing your leadership skills to grow as a PTA leader and child advocate • Want an opportunity to share information and resources with fellow emerging minority PTA leaders • Want to learn strategies for engaging ethnic minority communities and schools Learn more at http://www.pta.org/ emerging_minority_leaders.asp.
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