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The Development Office and Parents Association share responsibility for community events and fundraisers at the School. The School relies on the parent body for its volunteer efforts to create successful events.
Events for 2009 - 2010:
Fall Picnic
Sunday, September 20, 2009
11am - 2pm
Old Speedway Meadow, Golden Gate Park
This event is a wonderful way to start off the school year and meet other families and members of the SFDS community.
Family Photo Night
Monday, October 26, 2009
4pm-8pm
Please mark your calendars for the 9th Annual Family Photo Night. It is a celebration of our diverse families. Come have your family picture taken and enjoy activities and breaking bread with other SFDS families. This year you will also be able to shop at the Library Party book sale. An exhibit of the pictures will be hung for all to see. Reservations will be required. For information about how to register please see the September newsletter.
Library Party
Monday & Tuesdsay, October 26 & 27, 2009
Shop at the Book Sale & enjoy Family Photo Night
Monday, October 27, 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Shop all day
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Hundreds of exciting book titles to donate to the library and for purchase as well as games, puzzles & activity books!
Author's Luncheon with Melanie Gideon, Author of The Slippery Year
Tuesday, October 27, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (must reserve space by calling 568-3633)
The Library Party is a family event, with readings, food, entertainment, and lots of books that raises funds to benefit the library.All book lovers look forward to the annual Library Party. With an enormous selection of adult and children's books, one can easily spend the entire day in the gym perusing the tables of good reads. Books are available for purchase or for donation to the library collection.If you love books or have always wanted to experience retail work, we've got plenty of volunteer opportunities that begin one to two months before the event.
Each year a committee of volunteers select the "Adult Picks" and the "Children's Picks." Their selections always include classics, fiction, non-fiction, best-sellers, etc. Once the books start arriving at the school, more volunteers come in to sort and chronicle them so they're ready for checkout on the day of the event. We also need parents for data entry, decorations committee, food committee, and sales. If you've got an idea for a speaker, or you know of anyone with amazing talent who may want to come to the Library Party to sign books or share a reading, please let us know.
Grandparents and Special Friends Day
March 12, 2010
For one day each year, we invite grandparents and special friends of lower school students to experience what it's like at the Day School. This is the one day when there are more adults in the building than children! Along with a musical performance, the students invite their guests into the classroom. This is a good opportunity for them to show off all the different things they're studying, their teachers, and classmates. As a souvenir to remember the day, iphotos are taken of students and their grandparents or special friends. We often hear from alums who remind us how meaningful their collection of Grandparents Day photos is.
Because Grandparents and Special Friends Day involves so many people, it's an event that requires many volunteers. Volunteers recruiting begins three to four months before the event. We're looking for help with everything from mailings to food to parking lot assistance and photography.
CultureFest
May 1, 2010
This spring party is the School's largest fundraising and community building event of the year. The auctions and evening party celebrate a different culture each year, and bring the majority of the parents and faculty members together around the cause of discounted tuition. We need both the volunteer efforts of all of our parents and their attendance to make this annual event successful.
In order to have a successful CultureFest, we need volunteers to solicit auction items for our online auction. The School sets up neighborhood task forces to go around to various merchants soliciting donations and gift certificates. We send letters to restaurants, hotels, and any vendor who has donated in previous years. We also look to our own school community’s resources. The soliciting continues over several months.While securing auction items, committees are established for everything from decorations, food, thank you note writing, and entertainment. Simultaneously, we look to the parent body for help with invitation design and program design.
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