SPOTLIGHT of the QUARTER - Pembroke Pines Charter Schools

City of Pembroke Pines
Charter Schools Newsletter
Third Quarter
March 31, 2015
Committee Members
SPOTLIGHT of the QUARTER
Co-Chair Lauren Dreilinger
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Upcoming Events
April
-Taste of Pines
April 16, 2015
-5K Run
April 26, 2015
June
-Last day of School
June 5, 2015
-End of Fiscal Year
June 30, 2015
Our “Spotlight of the Quarter” goes to an individual, or a group, in our community that has done
something above and beyond to bring awareness and/or raise money to the Support Our
Schools Campaign. This quarter we are shining the spotlight on our Charter School support
staff (Ilene Kornblum, Berta Cuevas, Lola Pitts, Pat Bryant, Leesa Romero, Robyn Battle, Carol
Busk, Carmen Rodriguez, Marisel Delgado, Grace Castillo, Carol Welcher, Diana Perez, Laura
Clahane, Liz Mesa, and Wanda Balaster) for their tremendous cooperation. In addition to their
duties, these ladies take the time out to assist us weekly, if not daily, with all of our fundraising
events. From coordinating and scheduling some of our events, to counting all the revenue
collected, we applaud the efforts of these ladies for their work and for going the extra mile for
the entire charter school family and making it a more efficient one. Thank you for your patience,
and for your continued hard work and commitment to our students. With your leadership, we
can give our students the education we know they deserve.
On-going Events
SOS T-shirts
Go to your campus’ front office and
buy your SOS T-shirt for $5!
Wear it on Spirit Days!
Available in all sizes
If you have not donated, please do so today!
To date, we have raised
$131,931 through
fundraisers, and parent
Snack Shack Fundraiser
donations. We have
The Snack Shack takes place after
collected 209 parent pledge
school at Central Campus. We
encourage parents from all campuses to forms so far. In 2013-2014,
we collected 477 pledge
donate snacks. For more info, contact
forms and received over
your campus’ front office.
$277,000 in parent
SOS Dress Down Days
donations. Our goal for
April 9, 2015
FY2014-15 is $968,400.
May 14, 2015
________________________________ This school year we have had
many fundraising events, in
which the following events are
Where does the money go?
We request each HOUSEHOLD to our top three:

SOS Walk A Thon
make a tax deductible donation of $450!
(raised $14,289.76 in
Money donated to SOS goes directly
proceeds)
into raising the quality of education and

SOS Snack Shack
resources for your children. Funds are
(raised $11,801.61 in
used for:
proceeds)
 Capital Improvements/

SOS Brickz for Kids
Infrastructure
(raised $10,414.75 in
 Increased Costs
proceeds)
 Raising Reserves to Financially
Sustainable Levels. Our goal is Aside from our SOS events,
to raise reserves to 10%;
the City has held other
currently our reserves are at
successful fundraising events
6%.
that have benefitted our
Charter Schools, such as Can
We Make A Deal, raising
approximately $20,000, and
the annual Mayor’s Golf
Tournament, bringing in almost
$90,000.
Pembroke Pines Charter School Foundation, Inc.
CONTACT: (954) 431-4884
Campus
B udget
Pl edged
Recei ved
Academic Village (65)
$312,334
$26,080
$20,255
Central Campus (61)
$200,886
$24,745
$14,707
(# o f Pl edges)
FSU Elem. (24)
$105,248
$12,450
$10,520
West Campus (16)
$194,531
$9,200
$8,617
East Elem. (9)
$105,401
$2,790
$790
$9,165
$9,165
$84,430
$131,931
Other (27)
SOS Fundraising Events
$50,000
To tal
$968,400
$67,877
10100 Pines Boulevard Pembroke Pines, FL 33026
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