2008 Donors

Not a complete list, but many of the vendors who contributed last year:

A Children's Place Bookstore
A Healing Path
Adidas
Ann Potter Ceramics
Amnesia Brewing
Amy McMullen Photography
Ashlan Communications
Atty Zschau, Acupuncture
Aveda
b. ella
Bella Stella
Bike N Hike
Blend Coffee Lounge
Blue Moon Camera
Body Spa and Massage
Campbell Salgado Studio
Cat's Paw Artifacts
Chinook Winds Casino
Cru Wine Bar
Cup and Saucer Cafe
Curves
Decisions Decisions
Eco Car Wash
Extracto Coffeehouse
Fyberworks Boutique
Garden Whimsy
Garrison's Fine Wines
Georgie's Ceramics
Go Goose Go!
Gossamer
Grasshopper
Grolla Restaurant and Wine
Haddy2dogs
Hail Mary
Heart in Hand Preschool
Herbivore
Homespun Goods
Innerscape Art Center
Ken's Artisan Pizza
Kenton Antiques and Collectibles
Kids at Heart Toys
Kurumi's Glass
LivingWellness Pilates
Loyly Sauna & Steam
McMenamins
Media Cabin
Milagros
Mirador Community Store
My Bei Bei
Naomi Hughes Garden Design
New Seasons Market
Noah's Bagels
Nordic Naturals
North Portland Wellness Center
NW Children's Theatre
NW Trackers
NW Women's Fitness Club
O'Connor and Lee Photography
Ocean Sea Dreaming
Office PDX
OMSIOregon Clinical Massage
Oregon Coast Aquarium
Oregon Zoo
Peninsula Family Acupuncture
Petite Provence Bakery
Pfeifer PianoWerks Studio
Pix Patisserie
Pizza Fino
Play after Play
Portland Center Stage
Portland Children's Museum
Portland Monthly Magazine
Portland Spaces Magazine
Proper Eats
Refind Vintage
Rose City Gymnastics Academy
Scrap
Smartie Pants Baby
Spielwerk Toystore
Tatjana Torres, LMT
The Children's Gym
The Haven Maven
The Ice Chalet at Lloyd Center
The Naked Sheep Knit Shop
The Parlour
The Steiner Storehouse
Timberline Lodge
Toro Bravo
Trade Up Music
Trippin Billie's
Tumbleweed
Whole Foods Market
Working Class Acupuncture
Yoga Shala
Yohalem-Isley Medicinal Teas
Zenana Spa and Wellness

Portland Taiko

Neah procured 4 passes to the family matinee of the Portland Taiko September Concert, and a dvd of the Portland Taiko drummers.  For the Japanese Culture Ensemble we could use a gift certificate to a restaurant, or store, as well as passes to the Japanese Gardens...

Oregon Zoo & Portland Children's Museum

Today we received

• 4 Complimentary Zoo admissions
• 1 Family pass to the Portland Children's Museum (for up to 6 admissions)
  

Auction Item update

• · Jennifer Siebold secured a donation from SuDan Farms this week. Thank you!

• · Janet Allison (Teacher and Life Coach) will be donating a "Garden Party" a gathering of parents to talk with her and each other about their parenting challenges and successes

• · Theresa Hill and Craig Dermer have donated Campfire with Cowboy Boot Hill: an outdoor evening of stories and song around the campfire! Dust off those spurs, saddle up and ride out just west of Sauvie Island to a barn-turned-house to meet the yodeling cowboy, Boot Hill (PVS dad, Craig Dermer). With mandolin in hand, Cowboy Boot and his trusty cowpokes will entertain your child with campy crafts, sing-a-long songs of the wild west, silly ghost stories and of course, hot dogs and roasting marshmallows.

• · Kassidy Bond from Lowman's class volunteered to do her flower fractile art on 4 pairs of boots (we need someone to donate the rain boots)

• · Alma Chocolates has been solicited

• · Theresa Molter and Gillian Beck are donating a vegetarian cooking class: No need to rely on the New Seasons deli counter anymore! It only takes a few minutes to prepare food for casual entertaining at home. Learn how to make your own easy, beautiful and delicious salad rolls and other seasonal snacks; end the party with homemade gelato. Inspired by the cookbooks Party Food for Vegetarians by Celia Brooks-Brown and Entertaining for a Veggie Planet by Didi Emmons.

• · Jody Ruether has created a "Gardener's Gift Basket" from Portland Nursery

• · Ashleigh Kayser is compiling "A Walk Down Broadway" basket, inlcuding one item from the Starbucks on NE broadway and various items and certificates from the businesses on the NE section of the street.

• · "Play After Play" has been solicited

Auction Items from Amy Bean

First - "Flight School". This would be an easel auction, with room for 10 or 12 kids and be about 4 hours long. My husband and I own a small airplane that is hangared at the Scappoose Airport. The day would include a picnic lunch, "flight school" which would educate the kids and parents about the different parts of an airplane and how they work, instruments, what makes flight possible, weather and so on. The children would be able to sit in the cockpit, have their picture taken and be taxied around the airport in groups of 2 or three. As Glen is a private pilot (meaning unable to accept compensation for flying), and for liability's sake - we are NOT offering a flight. This would more aptly be called "Ground School" but it sounds much more exciting and cool referring to flight. ;)

Second - "Massage-a-Month" package. I'm a massage therapist, and have many friends who are as well. I'm approaching my circle and asking for a donated gift certificate from each, hopefully as many as twelve so that the package would include one massage a month for a year.

Third - "Guided Geocaching". This may be included in our class staycation, not sure. But we have a GPS and have done a lot of caching in the easy level of searching. It's a lot of fun, and gets people out and about into areas they might not otherwise go. Simple to do either in the Portland area or elsewhere in the state. Treasure hunting at it's finest! :)

Weekly Procurement Treasure Hunt!

WEEKLY TREASURE HUNT
Each week we will list 'Treasure Hunt' items and for each
one you procure for the auction your class will get 2
points. The class that receives the most number of points
will win an exciting surprise! Classes also earn 1 point for
each non-treasure hunt item they procure.

THIS WEEKS ITEMS:

• Street Scene: Downtown on Burnside (Ideas - Voodoo donuts,
Powell's, Sahagun Chocolates, Everyday Music...)

• Local Culture: Japanese (Ideas - Japanese Garden Membership
Ichiban Restaurant, Portland Taiko, Moshi-Moshi Store on Burnside...)

• Local Craft: Beer (Ideas - Tour + tasting at brewery, brewery supply...)

• Children's Classes: Summer camp

• Adult's Classes: Cooking

• Portland Events: Sporting (Ideas -Trailblazers, Timbers, Winterhawks...)
The Portland Village

Sponsorship Levels

CEDAR - $1,500+
- Back Cover of the Auction Catalog
( 5" x 7" full page ad, black + 1 ink color)
- Sponsorship Page Listing in the Catalog
- 6 Tickets to the Auction
- 6 Extra Drink Tickets
- Verbal Recognition at the Auction
- Exposure on Auction Poster (name and logo)
- Link to your Website from the PVS Auction blog
- Preferred Parking at the Auction

DOUGLAS FIR - $1,000
- Inside Back Cover of the Auction Catalog
( 5" x 7" full page ad, black + white)
- Sponsorship Page Listing in the Catalog
- 4 Tickets to the Auction and 4 Extra Drink Tickets
- Verbal Recognition at the Auction
- Exposure on Auction Poster (name and logo)
- Link to your Website from the PVS Auction blog
- Preferred Parking at the Auction

LODGEPOLE PINE - $500
- 1/2 Page Ad in the Auction Catalog
( 5" x 31/2" page ad, black + white)
- Sponsorship Page Listing in the Catalog
- 2 Tickets to the Auction and 2 Extra Drink Tickets
- Exposure on Auction Poster (name and logo)
- Link to your Website from the PVS Auction blog

Donator letter

Dear Community Member,

Portland Village School is hosting our second annual fundraising auction on May 16th, 2009. Our theme this year is Oregon Local; a celebration of local food, arts and business. We would be very grateful for a donation from you in support of our school that we may offer in this auction. We are aware that this economic climate is challenging for many local businesses and families. We want to highlight the opportunity this brings for us to encourage our local economy and to bring greater awareness of the long-term economic benefits of shopping local. We would love to spotlight your business or institution in this way. As always, your donation is tax-deductible. Our Federal Tax ID# is located on the attached donation form.

PVS is a public charter school in our second year of operation. We are located in North Portland and offer Portland families a tuition-free, holistic, Waldorf-inspired education. Our core academics are enlivened by music, singing, story-telling, recitation, art, drama,
Spanish language, movement, folkdance and handwork. We are pleased to say that most of our classes are fully enrolled with waiting lists. We currently have students in Kindergarten through fifth grade. Each year we are adding an additional grade, as we plan to grow to a 400 student, K-8 school. Our parents often tell us how grateful they are to have this educational alternative for their children.

As a public charter school it is especially necessary for us to hold fundraisers. We are a non-profit school under contract with the Portland Public School district. We provide educational services; they provide money and some special education services to us. However, we do not receive as much money as neighborhood and magnet schools do, and we have costs, like rent, that those schools don't incur. So we have to do more with less. We have a lean administration, our staff work for modest salaries, and we have many incredible parent volunteers. Still, for us to reach our full potential, we need to rely on fundraising. Your generous donation of an auction item or service will greatly benefit the growth of our school which provides such a rich education for the
children and families of this community.

If you can support PVS with a donation, please fill out the donation form and return the top white portion to the PVS volunteer who contacted you, or send it directly into the school. The yellow copy is for your records. We will happily list your name, business, and contact information in our auction catalog, as well as feature your item at our auction.

Thank you for helping to make our school and our auction a great success.
Sincerely,

The Portland Village School Auction Committee
The Portland Village Charter School

7654 North Delaware Avenue • Portland, OR 97217 • 503.445.0056 • www.portlandvillageschool.org

Class Project Update

Kindergarten: Ms. Mellow

Staycation: 'Portland Families Rock' a package for music lovers. In it will be a Family 4 pack of VIP passes to the Sasquatch Music Festival on Memorial Day Weekend up at the Gorge. The package will also contain CDS from local Portland bands who've "made it". Thanks to Erin and Aaron Rothrocke for their generous donation of a yurt for 4 so the family that wins the bid on the Staycation can use it up at the Gorge for the festival.

a.. Class decorative panel project featuring salmon - medium to be determined - produced by the children

b.. Guided autumn chanterelle mushroom hunt and subsequent mushroom feast: Rob

c.. Wall o' wine at the auction

e.. Basket of fairy items

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Fifth grade

1. Bowling/dinner package from Grand Central bowling

2. Poker tournament -Two 5th grade parents did this once before for their previous school's auction and she described it: The way it worked was we would sell 16 seats at the tables for $50/seat. Then they would come and play and we would serve drinks and heavy appetizers all evening. Mike would run the tables and we would get 2 guest dealers to help. The top 3 places would actually take home modest cash winnings.

3. The students will work on a woven tapestry.

4. The staycation is evolving, somehow combining two massages by one of our parents, a new vacuum and a Nourishing Traditions cookbook...

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