Give or Get Program Choices from Creditable School Activities
(Total 20 Service Work Hours)
The creditable school activities listed below imply active involvement:
- Solicit and collect new donations to Akiva
- Annual Chinese Auction
- Annual Dinner Banquet
- Clerical support for the office
- Assist the principal or another administrator with unscheduled, timely activities
- Building repair and maintenance
- Substitute teacher (guest teacher), tutor, paraprofessional, or recess supervisor (payment of work hours toward Give or Get)
- Library
- Art Smart Program
- Preparation before the event, i.e., development of program, securing auction items/donations, delivering complimentary tickets, decorating
- Service work during the event, i.e., registration table, selling tickets, announcements
- Service work after the event, i.e., clean up, thank you letters
- Preparation before the event, i.e., development of program, $1,000 or more in new patrons/new journal ads
- Service work during the event, i.e., registration table, assisting with program
- Service work after the event, i.e., clean up, thank you letters
- Prepare mailings, assist with making copies
- Calling parents for notifications
- Clear and salt walkways during the winter, remove weeds from flower/shrub beds, trim bushes, plant flowers, etc.
- Inventory, catalog books, move books, restock books
- Room mothers—10 hours maximum
- Bake challahs for Early Childhood
- Student health, i.e., coordinate lice checks
- School activities and fundraisers
- Pushka credit for placement & pick up of cans outside of school—1 hour maximum
- Hot lunch program, including serving lunch
- Student picture program
- Staff appreciation meals
- Grandparent activities
- Back-to-School Picnic
- Welcome new families
- Yom Ha’atzmaut, Lag Ba’omer and Chanuka concert
- High school play and other grade level play
- Coordinating and participating in fundraising activities—each $50 of sales equals 1 Give or Get hour of service work or $25—Bartons Candy, Lands End, box top program, bricks for Path of Honor
- Coordinate Scrip Programs
Give or Get Program Stipulations
- The chairperson of a “group” creditable school activity must have Give or Get pre-approval from the Executive Director, i.e., Art Smart, hot lunch program.
- A parent desiring to do service work on an individual creditable school activity must have Give or Get pre-approval from the Executive Director, i.e., working in the Library, clear sidewalks, pull weeds.
- Parent will submit to the Akiva Main Office his/her amount of time via the pink Give or Get Participation Form at the conclusion of the activity.
- Give or Get payments to be directed to the Executive Director.
- Give or Get obligations (service work time or payment) are not transferable between families.
- Attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors or executive board or similar meetings is not creditable time.
- Give or Get does not cover mystery readers in the classroom, yearbook, fundraisers or programs related to a specific grade level, i.e., 8th grade Washington trip, 12th grade raffle.
- All decisions of the Give or Get Committee are final.