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[quote=Anonymous]figure out what the school needs and get outside groups in the community (businesses, the ANC, religious congregations, adult sports teams that play in the parks nearby, etc.) to help pay for them.

Keep the PTA primarily about community-building, with one or two low-buy-in fundraisers a year.  Example would be a carnival where PTA buys pizza and drinks, you get a community group to rent a dunk tank and a bounce house, and you sell chances to dunk the teachers for $1 or something.

Think about how you can help the school recruit more lottery applicants and in-bounds enrollees.  Can you organize meet the principal coffees, weekend playground events, happy hours (could also be a fundraiser), or events at someone's house? Can you make/update a school website or facebook page? Get a piece published in the local newspaper or blog? Staff the myschooldc expo this fall? Organize regular open houses?  If the school has a bigger enrollment, it will be easier to raise PTA money in the future even if the same percentage of students give the same amount of money.  And if you recruit just a couple of families who are willing to give big donations to the school, it's a plus![/quote]

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