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Where The Money Goes... Doesn't everyone always want to know? Well here it is! Most of our funding through donations, grant awards, and fundraising proceeds have been allocated to and concentrated on achieving the $140,000 of cash and in-kind donations needed to install new playgrounds at both the Swift River Elementary (Phase I) and Cold Springs School (Phase 2). To see why these playgrounds are so necessary go to our Playground Project Info Page.
In addition to the playground efforts, we have funded the supplies, program, and requests as outlined below. Our goal in future years once the playgrounds have been successful completed will be to financially support enrichment programming and supplies on a larger scale.
Please note that the following are actual cash expenditures. These figures do not account for the thousands of dollars in goods and services donated by our sponsors, members, community members, and donations through our Wish List Program, nor does it account for the more than 1500 hours that the Executive Board and members donate each year to operate the organization and its programing.
These in-kind donations conservatively have an estimated value of $35,000 in addition to what is listed below.
2006-2007 Restricted Funds
$82,910 which was used toward purchase and installation of new playground equipment and ground cover at Swift River Elementary
$28,575 in approximate value on In-kind that were received as donations as services of playground site prep, site-survey ground analysis, project engineering, installation supervision, volunteer labor, installation equipment usage, and food and beverages, tents, tables, chairs, craft materials for the childcare area, and more!
$111,135 Total
2006-2007 Direct Funding to Benefit Students and Schools
$424 Teacher & Staff Appreciation contribution to events
$200 Parent Resource Library & recess toys for the guidance office
$200 All Grade 3 Classroom for Jacobs Ladder project supplies
$150 Recess Toys for SRE
$150 Recess Toys for CSS
$126 Popsicle Party for ALL 900+ students at their Field Day!
$112 Cash contributions to A Beautiful Future Family Fun Event
$112 2 cases of colored copy paper for SRE office
$100 2 sets of Motorola 2 way radios for Cold Spring School
$100 Help to purchase learning center SRE
$100 Printing of Posters to promote Character Campaign
$94 Cash contribution to Family Sweetheart Valentine Dance
$93 Magnetic White Erase board for SRE Special Ed Classroom
$87 Cash Contribution Family Fun Event, Trevor the Games Man
$50 Shredder for SRE office to help protect confidentiality
$45 Xacto Paper Trimmer for Pre K
$42 Adding machine with tape for Cold Spring School office
$34 Cash contribution to Back to School Party August 2006
$25 Teachers Helper Magazine renewal–SRE Grade 1
$25 Lexmark printer ink cartridge
$25 Sponsorship of "Happy Feet" safety contest, Nurse Janas
$25 The Mailbox teacher helper magazine subscription renewal
$2,319 Total
Attention Teachers and Support Staff
Cold Spring and Swift River School...
If you need supply items that cost less than $25 ea, please visit our Wish List Page to request your supplies.
To request funding for item(s) with an individual cost of $25 or more, click here contact@cssrpto.org.
Please include the following information in your request.
~ Name of item(s)
~ Description
~ Total cost (approximate is fine)
~ Where item(s) can be purchased
~ Reason for request
~ Who and how many the request will benefit
~ If request is for matching or partial funding
~ Date item(s) required by
We review requests monthly and fund items based on need, overall benefit, fair and equitable distribution, and available funds.
2006-2007 Administrative Expenditures
$750 One time IRS application fee for 501(c)(3) charitable certification
$525 Paper supplies & copy costs for the Playground Project Funding Request
presentation packages, Newsletters, promotional materials, and Event Flyer's
$127 Bank and Professional fees
$120 Web site hosting plan (1 yr) and SSL Security Certificate
$60 Booth at Belchertown Fair Sep 2006
$35 Filing fee for Division of Public Charities
$30 Expense for Childcare at General Meetings
$17 Postage for direct mailings
$1,664 Total
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