This year our school's budget was cut drastically. Our Parent Faculty Club raises money to pay for essential school services and expenses not paid for by the school budget. Any donation $5 to $50 to $500, or more, helps!
The first ever Harvey Milk Day was celebrated on May 22, 2010. Friends of Harvey Milk is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization which raises money solely for programs for students at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. Donate any amount to help us reach our $80,000 goal!
We are well into our third week of school and I want to remind parents and everyone else in our community of the many things you can do to support our beautiful school. Our Fall Pledge Drive is ON and we greatly need and appreciate your donations large or small, but there are many other ways YOU can support us today:
With your time – You can volunteer your time to the classroom, to the office, or to many of the events that we put on at the school. See our Volunteer page for more information.
While shopping – Give your Safeway card number (or other card numbers) to eScrip and select the school when you sign up. eScrip is an easy way to shop and have a percentage come back automatically to the school. All you have to do is sign up yearly, choose our school, and everything else is done for you. We also partner with Zazzle and other online stores. Find out more about eScrip and other partners here on the Fundraising Partners page.
By company matching – Friends of Harvey Milk has a company match program. Check with your company today: Your company may match funds automatically as you donate from your paycheck.
Lastly, for parents, showing up at school meetings and events is an excellent and important way to support our school. Tonight is Back to School Night, 6-8pm at the school. Our Home-School connection is really important and we would like to see 100% attendance tonight. New and continuing parents are encouraged to join us! It is a direct opportunity to get information from your classroom and the school as a whole.
Thanks for your support, and I look forward to seeing you all tonight!
Peace,
Christina Velasco, Principal
On June 9, Principal Velasco took to the airwaves on Comcast Newsmakers to discuss school funding and the way the school incorporates teaching standard core curriculum along with empathy, kindness, social and emotional intelligence, being advocates for others, being a learner, and use of “families” of mixed grades/ages so kids can learn from each other. If you missed it, you can watch it here.
Welcome Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy students and families! I am excited to be a part of a beautiful community as I enter my second year as principal. This year’s theme is “Together We’re Better!”
We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear – Unknown Author
This year as we come together we will be both learners and leaders in helping our children be successful. We have a fantastic consistent staff and they are working fervently to make it a great year. We need every member of our community to work together and participate in helping create the best justice learners and leaders of the 21st century. I encourage each of you to find a way to get involved. There is something here for everyone.
Since the day this school year began on August 16 and before, teachers and staff have been taking the opportunity to reflect and create an image for our indoor paper mural – T.E.A.M. The images and words express ways the staff contribute to our school community. All students will be asked to contribute an image and words to this mural. Please plan a time as a family to read the school’s newsleter and regularly review the documents that we send home in the Wednesday folders.
Like many schools, we put a lot of effort into our annual silent auction, and this single event is not only the primary community event of the year, but is the most important in raising critical funds for our school. But organizing these auctions takes enormous effort.
We’re investigating the potential of online auction tools to relieve some of the manual effort, and perhaps combining an online with a live silent auction. We need help to sort through what works and what doesnt. Have you any experience with online auction tools for fundraising, or with the online / offline auction combination? We’d love to hear about it. We’ve put together what we know here:
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