Planning for Money Savvy

Brady, Kwabe, Geoff and Urbany met to discuss current experience with the Money Savvy lessons at Muessel and Perley, anything we need to fix, etc.

The general thrust is that the lessons are going well, always seeking to find ways to engage the kids and encourage participation from all of them.

MATH. Mr. Strunk has offered some ideas to Geoff and John, particularly on the math problems that we can incorporate to help reinforce math instruction to standards. We need to build a portfolio of math problems around each lesson to give our volunteers choices and to accomodate differences across classrooms. We can use the blog for collecting those problems.

FUND-RAISING. Tom Harvey, Director of the Mendoza Masters of Non-Profit dropped in and we discussed fund-raising for next year. Tom had many ideas of folks we need to connect with including Rose Meisner of the Community Foundation, Chris Nanni, Nancy Ikeler of Asante, Mike Vogel (an Irish Angel) and Frank Belatti, an entrepreneur in residence here at Mendoza. One point Tom made was that there may be some organizations who can provide $5 - $7,000 without an arduous review process. We need to develop a plan and then get out there canvassing quickly in preparation for next year.

LEADERSHIP. Kwabe is the overall chair of School, Inc. in 2009-2010. Brady has agreed to be Director of the Money Savvy program. Kwabe and Brady will bring an outline of the business plan for Money Savvy for 2009-10 to lead the discussion at our next meeting, which is Friday, March 27 at 4:00 in Mendoza Room 121.

Thanks !