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Rooftop Alternative School PTA. All rights reserved © 2006-2007
Rooftop Alternative School is a K-8 School in the SF Unified School District
WHAT IS THE RUN?
There are two big fund raisers at Rooftop, the auction in the spring, and the Rooftop Run in the fall. The Run is styled like a walk-a-thon where friends, relatives and co-workers sponsor our students as they jog around a quarter mile track. Everyone is welcome to run, including family, relatives and friends. The principal and teachers make their way around the track too. The Run is much more then a fund raiser. It's a fun, family day too. After the running , we gather at center field where the entire school shares a potluck picnic. The Run is a perfect day to meet new friends and see old friends.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Each student or family asks sponsors to donate money for the Run. Sponsors may be friends, relatives or co-workers. Or, the family may sponsor its student. Sponsors may donate a flat amount which is turned in before the Run or at the Run, or sponsors may donate "per lap" where the total donation is determined after the laps are run. For example, if Uncle Lou donates $3 a lap for student Charlie, and Charlie runs 20 laps, then Charlie has raised $60 for Rooftop. Donations collected on a per lap basis are due exactly two weeks after the Run. All families are responsible for collecting donations from their sponsors. To download a "Sample Sponsor Letter" and "Pledge Form" please go to the Run Packet page; these forms are also provided in your child’s “Run Packet,” which come home in children's backpacks in September.
WHY DO WE HAVE TO FUNDRAISE?
Proceeds from the Run provide a significant portion of the Rooftop PTA budget. The PTA pays salaries for and funds many programs that make Rooftop special like the full time art teacher at the Mayeda campus, the libraries and librarians at both campuses and its books and computers. The PTA funds the classroom visual arts and Art Coordinators at the Burnett campus and the PTA pays for performing arts at both campuses. The PTA also pays for Burnett’s science in-the-garden project and its teacher, and the Sensory Motor program and its teacher. The PTA makes periodic capital improvements to the school such as Burnett’s outdoor picnic benches and landscape trees and bushes in the play yard during the 2006-07 year. Other improvements include a long overdue garden upgrade that included new benches in the amphitheater, a new retaining wall and a much needed water system installed during the 2007-08 school year.
WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO THE SPONSORS?
Tell your sponsors that federal and state funding is so small that schools have to raise money themselves to pay for basic things like books, a library, an art program and computers.
HOW MUCH SHOULD EACH FAMILY RAISE?
The family goal is $300. With each family doings its best, last year we raised over $60,000. We need to match that amount this year so that our PTA budget remains intact. Rooftop knows that some years families have their own financial burdens and difficulties. Some years families do not. We ask that you simply do your best to help the school.
WHAT SHOULD I BRING TO THE RUN?
a) Pledge Sheet
b) sponsor checks and cash
c) potluck dish (your class rep will tell you what is needed)
d) picnic blanket, folding chairs, sunscreen, camera etc.
AT THE RUN, WHAT DO WE DO FIRST?
Start at the Registration tables. Register your child at the appropriate GRADE table. Registration is between 11:00 and 11:45. Be on time to register, since the running waits for no one. Next, find your grade picnic table at center field to drop off your dish. Listen for announcements of the "race" start. Running starts at 12:00 and ends at 1:00. The picnic starts at 1:00 No eating early off the potluck tables!
WHAT IF I CAN'T COME TO THE RUN?
Although you will be missed, your family can still participate by getting sponsors and turning in donations before the Run.
CAN ANYONE ELSE COME?
All family, friends and relatives are welcome to come and to run. Except the family dog. This is a people-only event.
Run Coordinator: Renee Suttner-Vale / mooseymom@gmail.com
Sunday, October 25th 2009