The Big Give!
2023-2024 Goal by midnight on April 22: $35,000.00
Hate it when schools send your kids home with items to sell door- to -door as a fundraiser?
At FLAIM - you don’t have to! The PTO is asking for your support through direct donations. Any amount is welcomed.
Each class will compete, and those with the highest donations will win a special surprise!
Donations must be submitted by midnight on April 22 to be counted for the competition.
The money earned through the Big Give will allow the PTO to continue providing similar items and experiences that support the kids, teachers, and administrators next year. Additionally, your gift will also help fulfil some of the school's wish list for the 2024-2025 which includes:
Hosting an international themed field day
Risers for school productions
Window wraps for the upstairs classroom
FLAIM Step and Repeat
Snowball machine for PBIS and school celebrations
2022-2023 PTO Accomplishments:
The Big Give raised $35,103.25.
Added a pavilion, picnic tables, benches, and storage shed to the playground.
Hosted events like Trunk or Treat, FLAIM Festival, and Pastries with Parents.
Provided yard signs and stickers to families.
Men's Club led work days that cleaned the playground, added strips to mark carpool lines, and built furniture for the school.
BBQ Fundraiser - move those units!
Hosted Kid Appreciation Day (aka Hotdog Day).
Advocated for families at the district level to ensure the school would not be impacted by plans to allow contractors to rent space near the school.
Teacher & Administration Support
Purchased classroom supplies including smartboard, cubbies, storage shelves, and desks.
Teacher Appreciation Week - provides lunches and presents to teachers!
Meals and treats for teachers for all half days and in-service days.
Purchased extra playground equipment.
Language Committee
The Mandarin Committee hosted a Mid-Autumn festival family dinner in the fall and provided red envelopes to teachers for Lunar New Year.
Created and distributed newsletters to celebrate and enhance learning in all targeted languages.
Supported language engagement by bringing in outside speakers and performers.
2021-2022 PTO Accomplishments
The Big Give raised $34,200.
Back to School Park Party
Trunk or Treat & Haunted House
Men’s Club BBQ – moved those plates!
LEAP Testing Information Session
FLAIM Family Workdays
FLAIM Fest
Parent Spring Social
Capital Improvements
Won a grant to upgrade the storage shed on the playground.
Painted the foyer and Ms. McBride’s office.
Power washed front entrance.
Teachers & Administration
Purchased new smart boards and Chromebooks for classrooms.
Purchased new laminator.
Purchased a poster printer.
Teacher Appreciation Week
Language Committee
Continued sending newsletters that encourage engagement with all languages.
Brought in community members to read and talk in the target languages to individual classes.
The Mandarin committee hosted a virtual Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner in the Fall and provided red envelopes for Lunar New Year in the Spring.
2020-2021 PTO Accomplishments
The Big Give raised $24,461.
2018-2019 PTO Accomplishments
The Big Give raised $16,299.
Grand Opening
Donuts with Dad
Tailgate Chicken-Wing Cook-Off
Fall Fest
Holla-Day Party
Muffins with Mom
Silent Auction & Social
Capital Improvements
Purchased new 20x20 tent for fall fest, no more renting or begging for free tents.
Purchased new BBQ pits, UNDER BUDGET so we don't have to borrow pits for day with dads, end of year, any other FLAIM events.
Purchased storage shelves to organize storage spaces above gym, organized storage spaces above gym.
Paid for relocation of K-2 playground from Mayflower (got district to cover cost of mulch!).
Paid for relocation of Project fit America from Mayflower (got district to cover cost of mulch!).
Built outdoor classroom using shade sails and furniture from Polk, Mayflower, bought gravel.
Utilized 4-H grants for gravel, equipment, soil, and planters for garden.
Received donated chicken coop, installed.
Bought traffic signs to help us learn how to use the new campus.
Painted the mural on the entry planters, thanks to a donation of paints from PPG and FLAIM Parent
Nick Tryforos, mulched and cleaned up entry landscaping and trees in parking lot.
Thanks to Kristin Sanders, FLAIM Parent and Fastsigns, we got a STEAL of a deal to reproduce the
Mayflower Mural on a vinyl banner at the carpool drop-off. Shoutout to Brian Pavlich for
photographing and stitching the mural together.
Purchased popcorn machine and cotton candy machine.
Moved bike rack from Mayflower campus.
Worked with BR Green/Cox to get 25 trees donated and planted for Arbor Day (FREE).
Between discounts, donated materials, and things we got the district to pay for, we've saved about $15,000 this year!
Teachers & Administration
Purchased 2 smart boards for classrooms (<$2,000).
Purchased ice machine for cafeteria.
Bought additional speakers for gym sound system, working on finding funding for a full new sound system through the district.
Language Committee
Created a print form newsletter that encourages engagement with all languages.
Brought in community members to read and talk in the target languages to individual classes.
Assisted the teachers in putting on the language cultural days, specifically they solicited a traditional Lion Dance performance and Cajun performers.
The Mandarin committee hosted a Lantern Festival family dinner in the Fall.
2017-2018 PTO Accomplishments
The Big Give raised $14,685.
Due to the upcoming move to FLAIM's new campus, PTO funds have been used for yearly expenses such as Fall Fest, Teacher Appreciation, teacher lunches, etc. All additional fundraising dollars are being saved for new campus improvements. Over the summer and 2018-2019 school, we will accomplish:
Outdoor classroom
Exterior improvements (graphics, murals)
Landscaping at entry
Exterior sport courts
Running track
More bike racks
Fundraising dollars will not cover all of our needs so our Grant Writing Committee is also leveraging dollars through grant writing and public/private partnerships.
2016-2017 PTO Accomplishments
The Big Give raised $10,622.
Mayflower teacher's lounge renovation (storage, new countertop and sink, repainted)
Repainting classrooms at Mayflower
Outdoor classroom at Polk
Speaker system for Mayflower gym
Raised a boatload of money working one of the largest LSU concession stands in Tiger Stadium
Pastries with Parents at both campuses.
Language books for libraries at both campuses
Operation Flood:
Gutted and arranged food for multiple FLAIM families
Flood relief 20 flood-affected families (distributed over $10,000)
