Fundraising
SUPPORT BAM!
Individual Giving Campaign - BAM PTA's Individual Giving Campaign began in the 2006-2007 school year. See more on the Giving Campaign page.
Annual Starry Night Silent/Live Auction - BAM's adult-evening fundraiser is an event you don't want to miss. Enjoy delectable food and drinks, bid on a myriad of wonderful items, get-aways, and experiences, all while meeting other BAM parents and friends AND supporting BAM! Join in on this fun community building event. Who knows? Maybe you'll leave with a beautiful necklace, a cooking class or that weekend get-away. Look for the auction catalog in your child's backpack mid - end March. Help solicit donations from the community using this donation letter.
BAM Jam - Each spring, BAM families gather at the school for an evening party of dancing, food and other festivities. Through both a silent auction and a live auction, participants bid on local and national products and services that have been donated. Take this opportunity to party with fellow families and bid for a meal at your favorite restaurant or perhaps one you've never been to; get hair extensions; bid for airplane tickets and tickets to theme parks. Join the fun and raise money for BAM.
eScrip - E-Scrip is a hassle-free way for BAM to raise money through every day purchases. You spend money by credit/debit card as you would normally and a percentage of each purchase is sent to BAM. It's that easy! Just register with eScrip and then just start shopping:
1) Go to http://www.eScrip.com and click where it says "Sign up - it's free!"
2) Designate Berkeley Arts Magnet School, eScrip Group ID 137634981 to receive your contributions.
3) Once you're registered, you can register your grocery club card from a participating merchant and your debit/credit cards. Or, just start shopping at eScrip's online mall. As long as you start your shopping from the eScrip page, BAM will get money. That's it!
Box Tops for Education - You've seen them on your cereal boxes; what are they? Box Tops for Education is a program by General Mills that lets you easily give money to your school by simply cutting out the box top and turning it in. For every one box top we send in, we get at least $.10. That may not seem like much, but if everybody does it, they sure add up. You can find the Box Tops folder in the office, just clip them out and send them in, the PTA will do the rest!
T-shirt sales - BAM PTA will occasionally sell sweatshirts and t-shirts with a design created by BAM students. Get some school spirit for the whole family and support BAM.
Grantwriting - In the 2009-2010 year the Berkeley Public Education Foundation (BPEF) granted BAM $8,941:
Alice Bresnan requested $558 and received $558 for a Garden to Kitchen Project
Chris Colby requested $600 and received $400 for a Poetry Out Loud Writing Workshop
Kristin Collins requested $600 and received $600 for PE Equipment
Kristine Fowler requested $340 and received $340 for HItch Your Wagon to a Star
Pooja Govil requested $600 and received $600 for Engineering Fundamentals
Mary Hamilton requested $140 and received 140 for Current Affairs
Charlene Kalaginan requested $800 and received $600 for Family Visual & Performing Arts
Madhuvanti Khare requested $500 and received $400 for Math, Literacy and Arts Alive
Heather Komure-Chan requested $325 and received $300 for Kindergarten Publishing Project
Mary Beth Sako requested $570 and received $570 for Jeepers Creepers- Science and Writing
Marcie Thomas requested $$1,166 and received $945 for First Grade Book Publishing
Gabriel Tsuei requested $1,090 and received $1,090 for Document Camera.LCD Projector
Adam Weis requested $1,308 and received $1,308 for Marine Headlands Field Trip
Suzanne Wright requested $3,750 and received $1,090 for Quick and Easy Visual Support (Elmo projector).
Other grants in 2009 include a $1,000 IBM grant for printing the directory and a $10,000 grant from the Scully Foundation for BAM Connection (teacher conducted interventions for students performing below grade level).
For more information about Fundraising for BAM, to find out how you can contribute and/or get involved, contact the BAM PTA at ptaexec@bampta.org