Start-Up Project Opportunities

Do you want to work with gutsy, determined and dedicated people to open a start-up school which hopes to set new standards for education in the Bay Area? Do you have brains and talent, skills and spirit?

Then, South Bay Prep wants you!

Take a look at the projects below and see what suits you and your family. If the list below doesn't match your situation, then let’s create something. This is a living list and will be changed periodically.

E-mail the contact listed after each project or Stephanie at volunteer@southbayprep.org. You will receive an e-mail with contact information.

Outreach and Enrollment Team
enrollment@southbayprep.org

• Help organize and deliver enrollment meetings to the public
• Help facilitate small group discussion at enrollment nights
• Organize and host South Bay talks for a few families in your home
• Assist with a sample project demonstration for interested SBP students
• Staff tables at fairs and functions in the Valley to attract families to SBP
• Post fliers in shops and organizations in the Campbell Union High School District
• Pass out fliers on the streets, at farmer's markets, fairs, and schools
• Assist registrar with processing applications

Board Support Team
volunteer@southbayprep.org

• Serve on board development team
• Help scout and recruit advisors
• Coordinate parent volunteers, do intake and placement
• Develop volunteer program materials
• Research volunteer management software (databases for volunteers, donors and mentors)
• Research fingerprinting and background check process and present to Board

Logistics Team
info@southbayprep.org

• Seek discount printing options
• Provide storage for furniture donations
• Find or provide free meeting space for volunteer teams to meet volunteer@southbayprep.org
• Copy flyers, brochures and other materials
• Be on call for moving furnishings

Fundraising Team
fundraising@southbayprep.org

• Coordinate and promote eScrip program
• Coordinate and promote OneCause program   volunteer@southbayprep.org
• Research potential individual and business donors
• Research sources of grants; grant writing
• Initiate connections and network with potential individual and business donors
• Nurture and maintain donor relationships through communications
• Organize parent donation program 
• Develop web site tools for communicating with online donors   volunteer@southbayprep.org
• Coordinate and send out receipts and appreciation to donors
• Research and/or set up donor database (volunteers, donors and mentors)

Networking Team
fundraising@southbayprep.org

• Attend SC County Board of Ed meetings to keep abreast of news and report back to SBP Board
• Represent SBP at educational and philanthropic functions

Marketing Team
development@southbayprep.org

• Assist in development of marketing materials for SBP information packet
• Develop marketing materials to give to potential donors for use in fundraising
• Desktop publishing
• Writing, editing, proofreading for various purposes
• Develop signs or displays for public events and teacher recruitment
• Create, distribute and track publicity materials (psa’s, calendar listings, etc.)

Community Building and School Culture Team
volunteer@southbayprep.org

• Develop parent education program on community culture: communications, aiding in the classroom, democracy and restorative justice
• Research and develop before-school gathering/camping trip
• Facilitate dialogue online between parents
• Organize  South Bay family community activities
• Serve as event ambassadors to handle event issues and help families become comfortable
• Facilitate student social and project opportunities
• Research hot lunch program opportunities and present to Board
• Organize Opening of School celebration – yeah!

Programming Team
volunteer@southbayprep.org

• Develop community mentor component of the learning model
• Establish partnerships with community service agencies for community service projects
• Investigate databases for tracking community members (and mentors, volunteers)
• Research and develop after-school care with and for students
• Research physical education programming and equipment needs
• Research science lab needs
• Assist in development of training program for parents as project coaches
• Assist founding teachers to develop curriculum-related materials
• Research middle school/community college opportunities for students and mentors and build partnerships with college departments
• Organize Back to School Coffee/Tea and/or Back to School Night