Sponsor-ed has launched its brand new initiative designed to connect the busy school parent and strengthen school communities. Engaging parents in the school community is a big challenge for every school council and P&F. Many parents would like to be more involved, more connected but are frustrated that their busy lives deny them that opportunity. The school yard conversations of old where parents got to know each other just don’t happen as they once did. Modern life has seen to that. If you can’t get people meeting each other face-to-face, there is now a very simple alternative. A way to get parents supporting each other, sharing knowledge, skills and time.
The parents-of program connects parents in the simplest of ways by facilitating some of the school yard chatter. In the section called My Patch, parents will be able to buy and sell goods, promote their businesses to other school parents, be able to apply for volunteering jobs and most importantly be able to ask the community for some support, advice and recommendations.
And as with the sponsor-ed program, the site also generates funds through approved advertisers and now a raft of products for sale online where the school earns a % of the sale value.
The site will be run by the school council or P&F and for a limited time the FIRST 100 sponsor-ed schools will be able to have their own parents-of website for FREE; thereafter the site will be $30/month for schools that already have a sponsor-ed free school website.
To learn more about Parents-of, please visit www.parents-of.com or call Colleen D’offay on 1300 755 010.
Summary:
· Each site has its own unique web address www.sampleschool.parents-of.com
· The school council or P&F website editor will be trained by sponsor-ed
· Only registered users (parents) can post content up on the site
· All content passes through the website editor for approval to protect the site from any offensive material
· The school council (or P&F) will be able to upload their own content
· Almost all of the content will be provided by us in the form of feature articles, news headlines, recipe of the day, weather etc to make the place a vibrant site for parents to visit often. So there’s no burden on the council/P&F to become prolific publishers
· Up to 50% of the income generated on the site goes back to the school
