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Ambassadors: Thank you for your support!

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Questions We Will Answer Today

-Why Does Lake Oswego get Less State Funding than Other School Districts?

-Where Does the Foundation Money Go?

-How Does the Foundation Raise Money?

-Why We Need Ambassadors?

-The Role of School Ambassadors.

-Brainstorm Breakout Session: How To Accomplish Ambassador Goals

-Wrap-Up

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Foundation Board

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The money we raise this year is for following school year

Need for Grassroots, hyperlocal,school by school, person to person education of our message

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How Do We Raise Money?

Tell, tell, tell

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Tell Parents

What the Foundation Does

Over and Over

Then, Ask

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Ask for donations during the October Phone-a-thon

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Need for Ambassador Program

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  1. Grass roots, hyperlocal,

school by school,

person to person education of

foundation message

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  1. Parents who know each other, influencing their peers about the foundation

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= C RESULT

When we call during phone-a-thon, more parents are prepared to say,

“Yes, I will donate!”

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Foundation Elevator Pitch

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“We fund your kids’ favorite classes.”

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“We fund teachers.”

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Foundation Elevator Pitch:

Make It Personal

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”My daughter’s favorite class is band. She comes home talking about it every day. The foundation funds all of the district’s music programs.

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If Olivia takes Jazz Band, Concert Band, Strings or switches to choir, the foundation funds all of that all through high school.”

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Foundation Elevator Pitch

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�“We all moved to Lake Oswego for the schools.

We need to support them.”

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Ambassadors: Your role

How to get started?

  • Schedule your fall Back-to-School event (i.e. coffee at your house), especially kindergarten families and new families
  • Meet with your principal
    • introduce yourself as foundation ambassador/champion
    • ask about help getting the word out
  • Get on agenda of parent club meeting (ideally before October PAT)
  • Visit the ambassador area on the website - toolkit
  • Meet with this group again in fall Sept 6 @ 1 pm
  • Debrief your fall ambassador activities with board January 15, 2025 board meeting

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Ambassador Support

-Contacts:

Whitney Woolf,

Melissa Williams,

Angela Moneyhan

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-LOSF Board Members From Your School

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-Your Fellow Ambassadors

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***Your Friends! - Enlist your friends to help you host event(s) etc. to make it more fun.

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