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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm very active in our PTA (not Janney) and have observed many schools EOTP don't really have function PTAs. What are those of use more fortunate supposed to do: Cut a check to the school front office?

I seriously doubt many of those schools have the facility to handle funds transparently and with reasonable accountability.[/quote]

Work directly with the teachers or a representative from the parents who can manage that.  But then what they need. The first $1,000 is probably the most impactful.[/quote]

Well, as other threads have mentioned, most WOTP schools already do this.

Someone seems to be advocating that a PTA cut an undesignated check of donor money, which was collected under a system to which laws and fiduciary obligations apply, to an individual unrelated to the organization with no fiduciary responsibility to the donors or the ultimate donee, to do ... whatever. Obviously, that can't legally happen, so the whole Kojo show struck me as peculiar since you would expect someone on the show to understand this! We are a city full of lawyers after all. So instead, these schools help to meet the needs of other schools through other legal means, such as the one you suggested. They reach out, identify a need at the school, and then ask their parents to meet that specific need separately, not through previously donated funds that were given for a totally different purpose.

Fundraising is not for "fun" -- it comes with legal strings attached. It is a big part of why PTAs are 501(c)(3) organizations and have insurance too. Going forward, there are legal ways to handle a "sister school" situation, but until that is set up under the bylaws and with proper voting, etc. etc., the funds are claimed.[/quote]

Holy sh!t, this! A hundred times this! [/quote]

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