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PTA Membership Drive
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"Children come first, last and always with the PTA.

Your children need you! The South Fayette Elementary PTA invites you to join with us to make a difference in the education and quality of life for our children. We know that you love your children and want to do the best for them. PTA can help you do that! We all know that children learn more and have better lives when parents, school faculty, students and the community work together. PTA brings all these groups together to share thoughts and ideas about programs and activities that benefit children. The PTA provides information and resources that strengthen these relationships. A few of the programs that the SFEPTA sponsors to help children and their families are Family Night, Family Reading Night and Story Tellers, Gateway to Music and Carnegie Science Center programs. Our goals for the coming year are to continue these offerings for families and students, expand our Parent Resource Center, increase awareness of what the PTA has to offer and involve more members in the process.

Thank you, The Membership Committee

Annual Activities
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Programs	Events	Fundraisers
School Bus Safety	Meet the Teachers	Magazine Drive
Gateway to Music Carnegie Science Center Pittsburgh Children’s Museum	Classroom Festivities Harvest, Holiday and Valentine’s Day Parties	"Collecting": Giant Eagle Receipts, General Mills Box Tops, Campbells Labels
Dental Health Month	Book Fairs (Oct./Mar.)	Market Day (Monthly)
Read Across America	Holiday Mart	Book Fairs (Nov./Mar.)
Story Tellers	Track and Field Day	Family Night
Family Reading Night/ Book Swap	Family Night
National PTA Offering	Art or Science Fair (w/ Celebrating Excellence in Learning)

Other Support Provided:

Other Funding Support Provided:

THE NATIONAL IS ABLE TO:

Publish and mail Our Children magazine
Give testimony on all federal legislation concerning children and youth
Represent YOU in Washington, D.C.
Maintain a PTA headquarters office in Chicago, IL
Provide information and leadership to the nearly seven million members of the largest grassroots child advocacy association in the world
Provide grants to state PTAs, councils and units for special projects
Hold a National PTA Convention for the purpose of educating its members
Supply each PTA unit with a copy of the Annual Resources for PTAs, a guide for all local units

THE STATE LEVEL IS ABLE TO:

Maintain a state PTA office in Harrisburg
Hold summer leadership training for all members
Print and mail PTA in Pennsylvania, free to local unit and council Presidents
Print pamphlets and informational materials for more than 500 units
Have representation at, and participation in, statewide meetings of agencies and committees
Conduct state board meetings to coordinate PTA’s statewide efforts and programs
Hold a state PTA convention, the governing body of the Pennsylvania PTA
Maintain a nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service
Print and mail the Information Bulletin to units and councils
Give testimony on issues facing the Pennsylvania Legislature

THE DISTRICT LEVEL IS ABLE TO:

YOUR dues help defray the costs of workshops and conferences!

YOUR dues are used to help keep YOU informed!

YOUR dues provide valuable services for children!

OUR DUES can accomplish so much for children and youth!