ASR and admin enforce mandatory fiscal training for clubs to fundraise for 2022-23 school year.
Every year, Roosevelt High School club leaders are supposed to attend a fundraising training lesson led by the Associated Student Body. However in previous years, “Clubs haven’t been showing up,” said Kate Plesha, Roosevelt activities director and language arts teacher. Plesha said she saw only “20% of [Roosevelt] clubs showing up to these ASB trainings.”
Consequently, many clubs didn’t know how to properly raise funds and ended up doing it incorrectly. This gave “myself and the fiscal more work to train these clubs that haven’t come to the initial training at the beginning of the year,” said Plesha. “[It became] exhausting to have to follow up with so many individual groups who just didn’t attend the training in the first place” she added.
Starting this school year, Plesha began requiring meeting attendance in order to fundraise — which has resulted in over 60 clubs attending training as of Dec. 1.
It’s important for clubs to attend these training sessions, “Every single club is responsible for raising their own money. … There are no handouts in ASB.” said Plesha
And also because, “We as a school get audited…every so often and it’s usually not a big deal as long as we’re making sure that everyone is following the rules around school funds which is why the training is so important to me and Ms. Bower and Ms. Brewer.”
To make the club training meetings more accessible, Plesha holds extra training sessions on the last Wednesday of each month.
Many clubs use fundraising, Roosevelt Social Studies Teacher and ASR Advisor Taylor Rainwater said, “I think all clubs should try to do it — because it’s not even necessarily about bringing funds to your club — but you can be raising funds for organizations to donate to and things like that.”
While there is a new change in policy it has not affected established clubs such as Make-A-Wish Club. Club founder and President Marcel Sezgin said, “ I don’t really think it’s changed at all. …It’s always the same sort of routine that once we finish our fundraisers we give the money to the fiscal. we count it up and then that money gets sent to Make-A-Wish.”
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