This is how funds were budgeted and spent during the 2022-2023 school year.

💵 Fundraising

🪙 Membership Dues

We had 180 members last year, each of whom paid $5 in membership dues, for a total of $900 in revenue. We expect a similar number of members this year.

💵 Donations

This is for open-ended donations made to the PTA.

🍂 Fall Fundraiser

These are the revenues from the Election Day Bake Sale.

📚 Read-a-Thon

We received about $19,000 in revenue from Read-a-Thon in 2021-2022. We also incurred a few expenses, which were mostly rewards for classes who read a lot.

👕 Spirit Gear

Spirit Gear is clothing and accessories with the Abingdon Cardinal logo, like t-shirts and car magnets.

📸 School Pictures

These are funds we receive from our photography vendor for facilitating school photos last year.

🛍️ Mixed bags

The “Mixed Bags” fundraiser is also known as the Boon Supply fundraiser - funds raised from a mail-order catalog program. We received about $1,500 from this fundraiser last year. NOTE: we did not hold this fundraiser in 2022-2023.

📖 Yearbooks & Lovelines

We received about $1,000 in yearbook sales in 2021-2022, while spending about $4,000 to have the yearbooks printed. We sold Lovelines this year (messages from families within the yearbook) to help offset the cost.

💸 Retail Rebates

Retail rebates are programs like Harris Teeter’s “Together in Education” and AmazonSmile in which community members “link” their accounts with the PTA, which receives a portion of money spent at the vendor.

✏️ EduKit

Edukit offers prepackaged school supplies that are tailored to meet the needs of each grade at Abingdon Elementary. The PTA receives a portion of sales.

🌯 Spirit Nights

Spirit Nights are scheduled by the PTA at select restaurants and businesses in our area during which they donate a percentage of proceeds back to the PTA.

🚴 Bike, Walk, and Roll Grant

The PTA applied for, and received, a grant from the Virginia Department of Transportation (a “QuickStart Mini Grant”). The funds are required to be spent on encouraging or enabling students to walk or bicycle safely to school. The PTA purchased reflective keychains and snap bracelets that were mainly distributed on Walk, Bike, and Roll to School Day on October 12, 2022.

🎓 Educational Programs

🔔 After School Enrichment Scholarships

We provided after-school enrichment classes to students whose families would not otherwise be able to afford such classes.

🍅 Garden

We financially supported our school garden to ensure that it has sufficient supplies. These include tools, seeds, and potting soil.

🎭 School Play

Abingdon teacher Ms. Kerry Abbott puts on a wonderful school play every spring. Last year we purchased costumes for the play, which cost about $725. We have earmarked a similar amount for this year. NOTE: these funds were reprogrammed as the school play did not take place this year.

👨‍👦 Cardinal Kids Mentoring Program

The Cardinal Kids Mentoring Program matches students with staff members. The goals of the program are to build school connections, support academic success, increase self-esteem, and have fun. The funds expended last year were mostly spent on food and t-shirts for mentoring events. The program is managed by Ms. Caty Branco, Abingdon’s bilingual parent liaison.

🌼 Hispanic Heritage Month

The PTA funds a breakfast each year that celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month.

🎨 Art Enrichment

The PTA pays for a few art-related needs:

• Supplementary supplies for art classrooms
• The Reflections program, for ribbons and certificates for participating students
• Support for Abingdon’s annual art show

💦 Field Day

Abingdon’s physical education teachers organize an excellent Field Day every spring, in which students participate in a number of fun outdoor activities.

🚶 Let’s Go Club

The Let’s Go Club is a walking club that focuses on health and exercise. The program is managed by Ms. Caty Branco, Abingdon’s bilingual parent liaison.

🏃‍♀️ Girls on the Run

Girls on the Run is a running program for girls in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

📚 Book Fair

The PTA organized a book fair, which raised funds for the school library.

🧧 Cardinal Chinese Club

Volunteers operated an after-school Chinese club, which used donations from parents to purchase supplies.

🏫 Staff Grant Fund

The Staff Grant Fund is new this year. Funds are intended to directly benefit as many students as possible. This allows us to identify new, worthwhile expenditures as the school year progresses.

Community Relations

🥧 Adopt a Family

The PTA collaborates with the Student Services Team to feed needy Abingdon families during Thanksgiving and December. Most food is donated by the community.

🍲 Food Pantry

The PTA operated a food/snack pantry with donated funds this year.

☕ Coffee Events

The PTA intended to hold meet-and-greets with coffee to build community and to raise awareness of the PTA’s activities and mission. NOTE: these did not take place.

💦 Rising Kindergarten Playdates

The PTA organizes playdates for rising kindergarteners over the summer.

🌈 Tears and Cheers

The PTA organizes a meet-and-greet for kindergarten parents on the first day of school.

🏘️ Neighborhood Playdates

The PTA holds playdates throughout Abingdon’s attendance zone.

🍕 In-person PTA Meetings

The PTA holds most meetings virtually; however, we have set aside funds for an in-person meeting this year. NOTE: this did not take place this year.

🌎 Spanish-language interpretation for meetings

The PTA pays for real-time Spanish-language translation of its General Membership meetings. Spanish is spoken at home by about 25% of Abingdon families.

🎉 Events

👋 Back to School Picnic

The PTA organizes a picnic in August to welcome families back to school.

🏠 Open House

The PTA sets up a table at Open House to establish connections with new and returning families.

🍂 Fall Event

We held a Trunk or Treat event.

❄️ Winter Event

We held a Winter Wonderland event.

🌱 Spring Event

We held an International Night event.

🎓 5th Grade Promotion

The PTA helped celebrate 5th graders at their graduation.

🍿 Outdoor Movie Nights

The PTA would like to hold outdoor movie nights this year. NOTE: these did not happen.

👋 5th Grade Picnic

5th grade teachers had a picnic for their students to mark the end of their time at Abingdon.

🚌 5th Grade Field Trip

The PTA allocated funds for a potential field trip for 5th grade students. Due to challenges in planning the field trip, these funds were used to fund a “Glow Party” for 5th graders.

🙏 Staff Appreciation

The PTA treats Abingdon staff with meals, snacks, coffee, and other goodies at various times of the year as a way of saying thank you.

📎 Supply Buffet

The PTA occasionally organizes a “supply buffet” for staff, in which the PTA buys in-demand school supplies for staff to pick up.

Administrative / Miscellaneous

🧻 Office Supplies

This expense is almost exclusively for paper that the PTA uses to send out flyers in Tuesday folders.

🧻 Laminator Film

The PTA has allocated funds to pay for film for the school’s laminator, which the PTA provided as a gift to the school in the past. This is the last year in which the PTA will fund this expense.

💲 Dues - Virginia PTA and Arlington CCPTA

For each payment of $5 membership dues, the Abingdon PTA must send $0.25 to the County Council of PTA’s, $1.50 to the Virginia PTA, and $2.25 to the National PTA.

📰 E-mail Newsletter

The PTA uses a vendor to distribute its newsletter, the Cardinal Courier. This year the PTA transitioned to Mailchimp which is half of the monthly cost of the prior vendor.

☎️ Student Directory

These funds go to a vendor who make a student directory available online to the Abingdon community.

⛈️ Insurance

We are required by the state PTA to have an insurance policy.

💲 Transaction Fees

The PTA pays transaction fees for accepting credit cards.

🖥️ Website

Hosting our website costs nothing, but our domain registration costs about $20 anually.