WELCOME TO INDIANA PTA

A National PTA Update:

Is Your PTA an Outstanding Advocate for Children?

For more than a century, PTA’s members have been a powerful voice for the health and education of children. Your advocacy efforts have ensured that all children continue to have the opportunity to meet their potential in safe and nurturing settings. In recognition of that hard work, the national PTA organization will present the second annual Outstanding Advocacy Awards at the March 2009 National Legislative Conference. The 2009 Outstanding Advocacy Award will be presented to a PTA that, through their dedication and leadership, affected child related policy, regulation, or legislation to support PTA’s mission and goals. Two awards will be presented, one to a state PTA and one to a unit, council, district or region PTA. The state PTA will receive $1,000 and the unit, council, district or region chosen will receive $500. The monetary award may be used only to cover direct expenses for PTA work. In addition, awardees will each receive two all-expense paid* trips to the 2009 National Legislative Conference and be recognized at an awards ceremony on Capitol Hill on March 12. Criteria and application materials are available at www.pta.org/AdvocacyAward. The deadline for nomination for both awards is December 1, 2009, so nominate your PTA soon!

PTA Advocate of the Year Award

Do you know an impassioned and compassionate leader, dedicated to moving PTA forward and committed to ensuring that others would follow? 2008 marked the passing of one of PTA’s greatest child advocate leaders, PTA national president (2001-2003) Shirley Igo. Shirley was a model of public service and volunteerism throughout her life. To honor Shirley, the national PTA organization will present an annual award to one individual who most exemplifies the qualities that made Shirley a true advocate for all children. The nominee must be a current PTA member and submitted by someone other than the nominee. The person chosen to receive this award will receive an all-expense paid* trip to the 2009 National Legislative Conference in Washington, DC and be recognized at an award ceremony on Capitol Hill on March 12. Please visit www.pta.org/AdvocacyAward for details on how you can nominate someone you believe is deserving of this award. The deadline for nomination is December 1, 2009.

Indiana PTA spotlights our units:
We are instituting a new section here on the website to recognize the activities our Indiana PTA members and units accomplish. Please let us know your accomplishments, send us your link to a published press release or the press release itself and we will publish it in our new PRESS ROOM.
We will also highlight those special activities here:

Evansville Area Council PTA Congratulations

on Raising $20,000 for your clothing bank!

2nd ANNUAL GOLF SCRAMBLE FOR EVANSVILLE
AREA COUNCIL PTA

A golf scramble will be at the Eagle Valley Golf Course on July 18, 2008 held by the Evansville Area Council PTA. This event is to raise money for the Evansville Area Council PTA Clothing Bank. Read more here.......

and

Indiana PTA Good News Information can be found here.

Again this year National PTA is asking all units to use the OMDR (Online Membership Data Reporting) for recording membership for PTA. Information & User manual for Local units can be found here.

New link for Parents to use for protecting your children on the Internet.
Click here for more information...

We have recently found out about a site that uses Yahoo search engines but supports nonprofits by giving money to them for each search completed through their website. Please help support Indiana PTA by using this link and setting GoodSearch.com as your default search engine. Instructions are available on the site.

We have learned about a site that helps your teachers with Classroom supplies. Check out the information below.

"Now there's a better way to for teachers to get the classroom supplies they need.
SupportYourTeacher.org is an easy-to-use website that matches teachers' needs for classroom supplies with direct contributions from parents and others. Unlike typical fundraising efforts, 100% of the funds go directly to buying and delivering classroom supplies to teachers.

And – best of all – everything purchased through SupportYourTeacher.org is tax deductible! "

Last updated 12-Nov-2008