Chapter Activity:
Coordinate an Adopt-a-Class Program

This is a great program on many different levels. It brings publicity to the chapter, raises scholarship money, introduces college aspirations and expectations to elementary students, involves the business and civic community in the work of the chapter and in the lives of local young students, and in general has very positive long-term benefits for the chapter and the community. The chapter and the adopting group work out the terms of the adoption; the chapter then monitors the adoptions to be sure the students and the group stay on track.

· Encourage local businesses and civic groups to “adopt” a class from the local elementary, middle, and high schools.

· Adopt = developing an ongoing relationship with a specified class of students from the time of the adoption to the time of graduation from high school.

· At the conclusion of the program, the “class” will have a scholarship fund that consists of monies raised by the class and the adoptive entity.

· The ongoing relationship can include matching funds the adopted class raises throughout the year, participating in career days, sponsoring one or more fundraisers every year, planning activities and events with the adopted students and their families throughout the adoption period, participating in the graduation of the adopted class.

· Each occasion, event, fundraiser, activity, etc. is an opportunity for publicity for the adoptive entity as well as the chapter and the participating school and class.

· Each business and civic group participating in the program has potential for publicity, plus the chapter gets publicity for each participating class and adopting entity.

· The program can raise scholarship money, awareness of the chapter and its role in the community, and goodwill between the residential community and the business/civic community.

 

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