To sup­port the learn­ing envi­ron­ment at Mitchell, the PTA under­takes sev­eral fundrais­ing activites.

Our Fundrais­ers are:

Direct dona­tion cam­paign: In an effort to alle­vi­ate the time and has­sle of par­tic­i­pat­ing in many small fundrais­ers, we are ask­ing all Mitchell fam­i­lies to make a dona­tion in any amount to the PTA to sup­port the many enrich­ment pro­grams and fund­ing the PTA pro­vides to the school. 100% of your dona­tion will go directly to the PTA and your dona­tion may be tax deductible. We hope this will be our only BIG fundraiser this year! For more info. about where your dona­tion will be spent, see our How PTA Helps Mitchell page.

You can print a dona­tion form or donate online

 

 

Other Fundrais­ers include

• Octo­ber 27th The North Face Speaker Series:  Vital Out­doors in down­town Golden donated 100% of ticket sales from The North Face Speaker Series to the Mitchell PTA and the Shel­ton Ele­men­tary PTSA (split 50/50). Thank You — Vital Outdoors.
• e-books: Order, sell books and col­lect funds. These books are sold as a ser­vice to par­ents, who find the coupons use­ful. We do not offer incen­tives for sell­ing addi­tional books.
• Barnes & Noble Night: Mitchell stu­dents per­form at B&N with the choir, dance groups or the­atri­cal per­for­mances. Stu­dents’ art works are exhib­ited. Barnes & Noble donates a per­cent­age of sales from that day to the PTA.
• Box Tops and Labels for Edu­ca­tion: Col­lec­tion of and coor­di­na­tion of Box­Tops labels (Kleenex, Avery prod­ucts, Ziplock boxes, many cere­als and more) and Labels for Edu­ca­tion (Camp­bells soup, Gold­fish) for fund raising.
• Recy­cle for the Rain­for­est: We col­l­lect empty inkjet/laser car­tridges and old cell phones at school. A col­lec­tion box is located in the atrium. Recy­cle for the Rain­for­est pays us $1 — $15 per piece that we col­lect. We will also help save up to 500 square feet of rain­for­est per car­tridge or cell phone we col­lect in the process. Recy­cle for the Rain­for­est will donate part of the pro­ceeds to rain­for­est con­ser­va­tion. This is an ongo­ing fundraiser. Bring your recy­cle mate­r­ial to school any time. For more infor­ma­tion about Recy­cle for the Rain­for­est call: 303.808.9515.
• Orig­i­nal Works: Turn­ing stu­dents art­work into pro­fes­sion­ally made prod­ucts you can wear and share.

Fundrais­ing Principles

The Mitchell PTA believes in the fol­low­ing prin­ci­ples con­cern­ing fundraising:

Fundrais­ing is not a pri­mary part of the PTA mis­sion. We raise funds to sup­port the mis­sion of the PTA, which is to enhance the edu­ca­tion of our chil­dren. For this pur­pose we pro­vide funds to the class­room and for PTA spon­sored enrich­ment activ­i­ties. How­ever, we believe that the PTA can con­tribute the most to the enrich­ment of our chil­drens edu­ca­tion by sup­port­ing the school with vol­un­teers and get­ting par­ents involved in their childs education.

The PTA advo­cates for ade­quate fund­ing of school equip­ment and sup­plies from those gov­ern­men­tal bod­ies which have the legal respon­si­bil­ity of meet­ing those needs (school boards, county com­mis­sion­ers and the state and fed­eral government.)

We con­duct at least three non-fund-raising projects aimed at help­ing par­ents and chil­dren or advo­cat­ing for school improve­ment for each fund-raising event.

Our fundrais­ers involve no door-to-door sell­ing; we do not offer prizes for num­ber of items sold. We will not sell junk food, candy or other unhealthy items.

We strive to have fundrais­ers which have a pur­pose beyond rais­ing funds. An exam­ple of this: Barnes and Noble Night gives our stu­dents the chance to dis­play their work in pub­lic, and per­form for the community.