Please make a gift this holiday season to support your school and help meet our per student fundraising goal of $167
On behalf of the Parent Teacher Association, we are thrilled to thank you for your partnership and support in growing our new school community. Over the past 11 weeks, we have all witnessed such leaps and bounds as our teachers, administrators, students, and parents work tirelessly to realize the powerful promise and potential of BE 456.
So much has been underway to build a strong foundation for our new PTA – from electing the executive team, to creating committees, distributing weekly newsletters, hosting our first school-wide celebration, finding aftercare solutions, and planning long-term projects.
A major goal for our first-ever BE 456 school year is fundraising to cover the 2024-25 PTA operating budget with a surplus that carries us into an even more ambitious 2025-26 school year.
The year’s budget is buoyed by one-time allocations that Malika has built into her own budget, so that our focus can be on unmet administrative and enrichment expenses, like a rooftop garden and Green Studio and closing any gaps in individual classroom needs.
With that in mind, we are setting an ambitious – and highly achievable! – goal of raising $20,000 for BE 456 as a PTA community by June 2025, which amounts to $167 per student.
We are hoping for full participation from every BE 456 family, with a suggested sliding scale starting at $25, which can be given in any increment over the course of the school year. However, for families who are able, we are asking that you make a contribution right now that matches or exceeds our $167 per student goal before the end of this calendar year.
Please make your fully tax-deductible gift here: https://www.konstella.com/open/donations/66aceaf51b5c66110aaa91be
(Note that there is a monthly donation option if you’d like to divide your gift into contributions of $21.)
And be sure to reach out to your extended family, honorary aunts and uncles, and especially to your employer to see if they will match your donation and join you in supporting BE 456’s unique model of progressive, innovative, community-based education for all of our kids!
Every dollar we raise will help us immensely as we enter the next half of the school year – to plan for more community events where we can connect, festivals to celebrate our varied cultures, special programs for learning together, merch to showcase school pride, and so much more!
With immense gratitude,
Your BE 456 PTA Fundraising Committee