1. For your campus makeover project: Consider contacting Trees for Houston if any landscaping is on your school's wish list. In some cases they will have available trees, tools, laborers, and know-how for free for planting and maintaining items that beautify a school and help the environment! For more information contact Randi
Cleary,
Marketing
and
Education
Coordinator at 713.840.8733
or
randi@treesforhouston.org.
2. For your Mentors:Lemonade Day 2009 is coming on May 3. During the TMT Module 3 dates, the representatives from Lemonade Day will be presenting information on how you can implement this initiative in your schools. The organization Prepared For Life holds an annual "Lemonade Day" to introduce young people to the disciplines and rewards of entrepreneurship and handling finances. Print the information found at their website and take it to your school's community liaison, or principal, and ask their permission to have Mentors invite their mentee to consider participating in Lemonade Day together. Then provide this resource to the Mentors with your encouragement that they take advantage of this opportunity to deepen relationship with their student and do some experiential mentoring in life skills.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Helpful CSA Resources...
CSA Coaching Tips
Coaching Tips ...
1. CSA Team meetings: Regularly invite key volunteers who are doing a great job to your Team meetings, so you can make heroes of them! And periodically invite potential members of your CSA Team to meetings as one way of guaranteeing a "succession" plan that produces informed, trained future leaders of the Team.
2. Whole & Healthy Children: now is the time to get your principal's wish list of improvements to be made in a Makeover and to schedule that workday date! The school will have further evidence that you are their ally, that we've come to serve, and we're eager to listen and act in response to their hopes and dreams and frustrations. And spring is a great time to schedule a workday - cooler weather than summer, and fewer people on vacations. Getting the tasks and date set now gives you time to recruit both volunteer workers and donors.
3. How are we going to raise $10,000 per School?: Between congregations and businesses in your CSA, we can work together to raise the necessary money for each Whole & Healthy Children school. Please see the attached resource for ideas on how to raise the money from your congregational network. Michael Aceves-Lewis, Development Director for Mission Houston can be a resource to raise money from your network of businesses with your CSA. Please contact Michael directly at michael@missionhouston.org with a shortlist of 5-10 businesses that we could target to assist in this fundraising effort.