St. Gerard Majella Catholic School

APT COMMITTEE OPPORTUNITIES 2008-09

COMMITTEE: INNISBROOK GIFT WRAP FUNDRAISER
Committee Responsibility: To manage the Innisbrook Gift Wrap fundraiser
Chairperson�s Role: Usually a three-year commitment. Chairperson helps the first year, runs the fundraiser the second year, and helps as needed the third year. Sets the dates of the sale, comes up with the promotions, and coordinates with the principal. Chairperson plans a presentation for the first Positive Action assembly to create excitement about the fundraiser. They keep track of the money. Makes sure all orders are processed correctly. They communicate to the school and parish. The Chairperson coordinates the proofing of the order forms and the delivery of the product.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 5 to help proof the order forms and sort the boxes when the wrapping paper is delivered.
Contact: Ann Sullivan, Erica McLaughlin

COMMITTEE: BOX TOPS AND LABELS FOR EDUCATION
Committee Responsibility: An ongoing fundraiser; duties include collecting, trimming, counting, and sending Box Tops and Labels for Education in to the company.
Chairperson�s Role: Collect Box Tops and Labels for Education from the back of church and the school office every week. Communicate special offers in the bulletin and school newsletter. Coordinate volunteers and make sure that all turn-in deadlines are observed. Mail the Box Tops and Labels for Education.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 3 volunteers to trim, count, and put labels into baggies.
Contact: Maureen Heidenry

COMMITTEE: SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR
Committee Responsibility: volunteers act as greeters and clerks, help with publicity and setting up the fair, restocking, coordinating games and contests at school, and work with administrators and teachers to encourage reading at home and in the classroom. There are two book fairs scheduled each year one in November and one in March.
Chairperson�s Role: The chairperson schedules, plans, and manages the event. Main duties are to serve as the primary contact between the school, the volunteers and Scholastic, recruit and organize volunteers, promote the fair, and direct the set up and operation of the fair.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: Co-Chair Person, Book Fair Committee Members, and Volunteers needed in two hour shifts to set up and man the book fair.
Contact: Jackie Murphy

COMMITTEE: MAGAZINE DRIVE
Committee Responsibility: To manage the Innisbrook magazine drive. Innisbrook handles the magazine drive, and the committee acts as a liaison between the parents and Innisbrook.
Chairperson�s Role: Select the kick-off and ending dates, provide write-ups to communicate the drive for the newsletter, put in place any rewards/incentives, review with principal, distribute packets, collect packets, review information, and provide completed packets to Innisbrook.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 2 volunteers to assist Chairperson.
Contact: Joyce Bryan

COMMITTEE: RESTAURANT FUNDRAISERS
Committee Responsibility: Organize, promote, and staff various restaurant or retail fundraisers.
Chairperson�s Role: Coordinate volunteers to chair various restaurant or retail fundraisers, for example: McDonalds, Pizzeria Uno, and Casa Gallardo; oversee the promotion of fundraisers in school newsletter and church bulletin.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 4-6 volunteers to work with scheduling the fundraiser date with the restaurant or retail store, promote and advertise for the fundraiser.
Contact: Michele Fitzpatrick

COMMITTEE: MENTOR PROGRAM
Committee Responsibility: To welcome all new families to SGM School, pairing new families of SGM with Volunteer Mentor Families in order to share ideas and ask questions to help families connect and feel comfortable at their new school.
Chairperson�s Role: Solicit volunteers to be mentors to new families: assign new families to their mentor families; organize BBQ luncheon on visiting day; plan get-togethers 1 to 2 times a year; answer questions and coordinate with mentor families� needs.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 6 to 10 people, in addition to mentor families for each new family
Contact: Amanda Wuesthoff, Amy Johnson

COMMITTEE: BAPTISMAL ANNIVERSARIES/SACRAMENT RECOGNITION
Committee Responsibility: Recognizing each student�s Baptismal Anniversary with a card from the APT and a blessing at an All-school Mass. Distributing card from APT to recognize sacramental classes.
Chairperson�s Role: Creating the cards, distributing the cards to the teachers so they can give them out to the students, and publishing the monthly Baptismal Anniversary List in the school newsletter and on a board in the church vestibule. Distributing cards to sacramental classes.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed:
Contact: Kathi Mimlitz

COMMITTEE: HOSPITALITY
Committee Responsibility: provide refreshments for APT meetings
Chairperson�s Role: purchase refreshments, set up refreshment table, and clean up leftovers after meetings; For the Fall and Winter APT meetings provide soda and water. For Spring meeting, call volunteers to bring appetizers, purchase refreshments, cups, plates, tablecloths, etc.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 8-10 volunteers needed to bring appetizers to Spring APT meeting
Contact: Diane Reinhardt

COMMITTEE: MONTHLY PARENT ROSARY
Committee Responsibility: To coordinate dates for the monthly rosary, find volunteers to lead the rosary, and communicate the dates to the school community.
Chairperson�s Role: To communicate the day the monthly rosary will take place in the school newsletter, contact someone to lead the rosary and put a sign out the morning of the rosary to remind parents as they drop off carpool
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 10 volunteers to lead the rosary each month
Contact: Lisa Vienhage

COMMITTEE: SPEAKER COMMITTEE
Committee Responsibility: Work with the school and APT Board to schedule speakers for parent and the entire parish.
Chairperson�s Role: Contact the speaker, schedule with the parish office, promote speakers in bulletin, and contact volunteers to help at the speaking engagement.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 6
Contact: Kathleen Armstrong, Suzanne Smith

COMMITTEE: PICTURE DAYS
Committee Responsibility: Distribute picture ID cards to students, bring each class in for their pictures, and help younger children comb hair, straighten collars, etc. on Picture Day.
Chairperson�s Role: Contact helpers and arrange schedule for working (usually broken up into 2 hour shifts), help to determine which order to get classes, taking into account lunch periods, field trips, etc. Keep the flow of classes moving.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 2-3 helpers
Contact: Peg Petralia

COMMITTEE: TRUNK OR TREAT
Committee Responsibility: To coordinate, promote, organize and put on Trunk or Treat for the parish.
Chairperson�s Role: To advertise through the church bulletin and school newsletter Trunk or Treat date and time. Collect funds for reservations and pizzas. Order pizzas, Purchase prizes, provide music, find volunteers for parking lot detail, MC, and clean up.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 6
Contact: Linda Miner, Angie Ganninger,
Sandy Shea-Bartlett

COMMITTEE: GRANDPARENTS'DAY
Committee Responsibility: setting up refreshment tables for grandparents and students on Grandparents� Day, assisting grandparents with finding parking spots and directing them to the gym, cleaning up afterward.
Chairperson�s Role: coordinate volunteers, purchase tablecloths, paper napkins, and cookies.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 8 (4 for setting up and cleaning up refreshments, and 4 for directing grandparents to parking spots and to the gym)
Contact: Jennifer Martin

COMMITTEE: ADVENT NATIVITY BLESSING PRAYER SERVICE
Committee Responsibility: Plan prayer service; work with parish office to schedule a priest and the church, pick a charity for donations, coordinate announcements in the church bulletin and school newsletter, prepare for hospitality afterwards, clean up, and drop off donations.
Chairperson�s Role: Secure volunteers and coordinate event.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 10 volunteers to provide cookies for social afterwards and 2 volunteers to plan prayer service.
Contact: Madeleine Neuner

COMMITTEE: TEACHER/STAFF CHRISTMAS FUND
Committee Responsibility: collect and distribute funds from school families to be divided among all SGM faculty and staff for Christmas presents.
Chairperson�s Role: Coordinate and implement the following: send a letter through the school newsletter and reminders describing the Christmas Fund and how to contribute, collect contributions, tally them by family name, create a Christmas card with all contributing family names, divide and distribute in cash and TWBs.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 4 volunteers to assist with writing letter/newsletter inserts and collecting and distributing funds.
Contact: Terry Einig

COMMITTEE: PRINCIPAL/SECRETARY APPRECIATION
Committee Responsibility: recognizing the principal and secretary on their individual appreciation days
Chairperson�s Role: Purchase a greeting card and a gift.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 2
Contact: Karen Pollmann

COMMITTEE: CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
Committee Responsibility: provide ideas, activities, and volunteers to assist the school in celebrating Catholic Schools week which usually falls in the last week of January.
Chairperson�s Role: Work with the Coordinator of Religious Education, teachers, and staff to organize activities and events around the theme for Catholic Schools Week. Organize volunteers to help out with Catholic Schools Week events.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 5
Contact: Jennifer Martin

COMMITTEE: KINDERGARTEN SCREENING
Committee Responsibility: provide refreshments and greet families attending screening, have activities for students and/or siblings waiting, answer questions
Chairperson�s Role: secure volunteers to greet parents and children, purchase cookies, juice, cups, and napkins, bring markers and paper for children to color while waiting.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: 6+ volunteers to greet (2 hour shifts)
Contact: Madeleine Neuner

COMMITTEE: UNIFORM EXCHANGE
Committee Responsibility: Collect used uniforms, set them up for display on day of exchange, man the exchange, and clean up what is left.
Chairperson�s Role: Put announcements in newsletter, set up, clean up, secure volunteers, store left over uniforms until next year�s exchange.
Volunteers/Assistance Needed: Co-Chairperson and volunteers needed to set up, work the exchange, and help clean up.
Contact: Julie Pahic, Mini McLaughlin


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