Minutes 1/9/2019
The grant is ending.
Medb Maui Economic Development Board came to help
Multi million dollar grant
Payment from them
Federal grant
Program needs to be self sufficient.
Charge monthly fee as a Last resort.
For all kids to be here after school
Alternative fundraising
Corporate sponsors
6 and 10 thousand donations
Come with proposal to other places like the governor
Governor supports stem
State not #1 place to find money
State corporate fundings
Needs help funding money
List of people to approach
- Maui electric
- Airforce
- Boeing ?
Formal committee
Needs staff like notetaker and money person
stem boosters
https://mwisstem.com/stem-boosters/meeting-minutes/
Signed up for charity walk this year 4,000-10,000 and hopes to get 5,000
Get between 15 – 20 % back in donation grant
Friends of maui waena non profit to take grants and donations
Tantes giving 100% profit
Many auction items
Funding ideas
- Pascual’s catering
- Monsanto ?
- boeing
Ideal sponsors
- Technology companies
- Boeing?
- bank
Cultural grants
Stem exploration days promote culture
Need more connections
Needs 60,000
Melinda white stemworks program person
- Proof of young people becoming better people
- Keep supplies and growth
- Over 4 years Put in 200,000$$
- Potential student pay
- Engages in variety of student important to support
50 kids total
Jon A. volunteered a lot
No reapplied grant
Last January frozen federal funding
- More federal money coming through
- Coming to an end
- Other funding streams
- Supporting for years
- 1000,000 huge
- Grants for stuff easier than staff
- Keeping people here to help
- goal is to have the growth of students
Kids love it at the club and it’d be bad if they couldn’t come
Differences in fees people
Trying to prevent exclusions
Equity most important
120 enrolled
80- 85 come on a regular basis
130 kids at the beginning at te
Different interest impact future decisions
30/mon 50 kids ??
Survey for parents to see if they are willing to pay a monthly fee?
Collection payments and if they dont pay they can’t go
Committee in STEM similar to band boosters
Needs help to run business . doesn’t know how
Finding multi year commitments
- Local foundations
- Key finding a foundation that’s generous
- Goal: 10 companies that give 5,000 each year
- No collect money from kids
- Feel as though 40 kids can pay 100/month
- Doesn’t know how to get to lunch reduce
- 10 business and partial students
- Taking advantage of parents for different committees
- Possible PTSA
- MEDB has served as a pass through for the money that is donated to a club or organization
- With non profits, federal pays and a percent would go to the MEBD
- System of paid hourly and monthly contraters
Form committees
Find someone with the skills to run a business to save money
MEBD is money manager
Use extra money found to give a sort of discount to those who can’t pay a monthly fee
Offset cost monthly and differences
Paypal one time transaction
Need to know foundations that would be interested in helping
Find family members that works for companies
CTE doesn’t count for us
Committees
- Fundraising committee
- Grant fundraisers
- PR Committee – press releases
- Social media committee
- Promoting committee
- Have someone manage small donations and someone to handle bigger donations
Maybe do commercials for companies
Self funding hard to so
Kids who can’t afford to pay can work classes
6th of February @ 5 30 next meeting
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12/12/18 STEM Parent Meeting Minutes – Next Meeting 1/9/19 at 1730
Accounting
- Shannon Robinson – Quickbooks, Grants
- Money collection, Bank Deposits, Updated Funds Available
Fundraising
- Jen and Curtis Omuro – Fundraising letters and mailing list – Google Drive – spice up letters with photos. Different letter for corporations?
o Presentation to corporations – In-person presentations by the kids? 3-5 minute video with alumni (10-30 second video talking about their experience with STEM), STN, HIKI NO, Use old video clips, T-shirt designs, Robotics awards etc.
o Email presentations for corporations that don’t require in-person presentations with links to videos
- Michelle Ota – Email fundraising blast
- Grants – Jen Suzuki to fill in the meat of the grants and Shannon to review
- Applications to Costco, Walmart etc for donations – may be at the beginning of the calendar year
- STEM Exploration Days – pre-registration? At the door fees?
- Website creation for solo practitioners – Kristina
- Charity Walk
- Annual fee per child – this would help raise up to $15,000 if all kids paid $20/month for 125 kids for 9 months. Sliding scale for those kids with free/reduced lunch – ask for more shifts at the fair, or assign tasks – help with stamping letters, or whatever tasks you need done.
- Kids teaching classes to adults – Accept donations
Community Relations
- Newsletters – Jen Suzuki and kids
- Thank yous
- Social Media Posts – Hoot ??
To Do List:
- During STN practices – have kids make 3-5 minute video presentations for corporations showcasing STEM
- Wordpress pitch for website creation
- Letter to all parents – This should compare the price of Kama’aina Kids $120/month to a monthly fee. Tell them there is no grant after this school year. Annual budget is $60,000/year. Need help with fundraising, ….? Kids will need to have letter signed and return a portion to you-tear-off?
- Share Google Drive with group
