Happy Summer! Please see below for a list of current committee chair openings. If you are interested in volunteering for a chair position, or have questions about a committee, please email shrinegsmc@gmail.com (or just reply to this email). Time spent on committee chair positions counts towards non operational volunteer hours. We appreciate all of our current and future chairs, and are looking forward to a great year next year, with many in person events!

**please note all events need pre-approval by the SCGS MC Board**

• Attendance: tentative  (Depends on whether the grade school office will require a committee).  Need 1 committee chair to coordinate attendance volunteers . The Attendance Committee consists of 10 members who each work a specific day of the week to complete attendance each morning at SCGS. The time commitment is from 8 am to 9 am on your particular day - but can be longer on snow days, during flu season, etc….The schedule for the entire year is created by the Chair and each committee member is given the schedule for the school year, sometime early August. Typically each member works about 15-19 dates in total (2 to 3 mornings per month). If something comes up, and you can not cover your particular shift, you are encouraged to switch with your “partner” as it is crucial to have coverage each and every date that school is in session. It is not a problem to switch dates within the Attendance Committee - again as long as each morning is covered. Training is done for new members in August by the Chair.  It is a fun committee of Shrine moms and a quick position to be filled when there is an opening! Volunteering on the Attendance Committee counts for Operational Service Hours. 

• Book Fair Committee: coordinate, organize, and communicate with the Scholastic Books vendor to set up our Shrine Book Fair. Typically, this is held in-person over a few days (TBD if it will be virtual, or in-person, for the coming Academic School Year in Fall 2021) . We need 4 co-chairs.  Past volunteers (who did an amazing job!) are available for questions and transition.

• Bagel/Donut Committee: (tentative- if allowed when new guidelines come out for the 2021-2022 academic year) Need 2 co-chairs. The initial start up takes about 15-20 hours (roughly 8 hours for each person, depending on how you split things up).  This includes spending time in August creating an order form, contacting the vendors, setting prices and determining delivery dates, etc.  This also includes time in September to distribute forms, review orders as they come in and set up a spreadsheet and labels for the year. Deliveries begin in October.  Each month someone needs to make the bags ahead of time with labels (approx. 1 -1.5 hours, depending on if it’s a donut month).  Then the day of the delivery usually requires 2-3 hours - one person picking up bagels and cream cheese, the other picking up donuts (if it’s a donut month).  We typically meet at the school at 1pm, and are done with bagel delivery by 2:15/2:30, and if it’s a month of bagels and donuts, we’re usually there until dismissal.  We’ve also had a third person join us on some days, which makes things go much faster.  And, we’ve also had other parents looking for volunteer hours do the bags for us.  So there are definitely ways to manage the time up/down to meet your needs.  Past co-chairs will be happy to assist with explanation to discuss how we’ve done things in the past.  We also have electronic copies of everything from the last two years that we will share.

• Christmas Cookie Kit Committee: Need 2 co-chairs.  A binder is available from the last co-chair to help with transition and explain the process.  The co-chairs will contact a vendor to make and decorate the cookies, set up an order form with a firm timeline,  provide packaged kits (with frosting and sprinkles), and set up delivery of kits to SCGS families who have placed orders. Use of past vendors is encouraged, depending on availability.

• Daddy-Daughter Event: Need 1-2 co-chairs. There is one current Co-chair, Renee Popiel. This committee coordinates an event for our SCGS and ECC Daughters and their Dads! 

• Enrichment Committee:  Need 2 co-chairs.  This committee was on hold for the past school year.  The enrichment committee plans about 8 events throughout the year. These events can range from one class to the whole school. A lot of the time involved is emailing and phone conversations. There are some occasions where you may need to be on-site to meet the presenters, but a lot of the events can be coordinated via email and you can let office staff know ahead of time with details when they will be arriving. The committee chairs meet with the principal at the beginning of the year to see what the school would like to happen for the year. This coming year (2021-2022) may be a little different depending on what the guidelines for health and safety for schools are as set up by the AOD, OCHD, and MDHHS. 

• Food Fundraiser: Needs 1 co-chair. Help coordinate the Little Caesars Pizza Kit Fundraiser and any other food fundraisers that may come up. Current Chair is Renee Baranowski.  

• Hospitality Committee: Needs 1 co-chair. Current chair is Sara Heslip. Coordinate light refreshments for in-person MC meetings (if allowed) and any other school receptions (first day of school, etc). Again, this will be determined on a case-by-case basis once we know more about the beginning of the school year. 

• Laminating (if allowed): current chair, Mary Baiers. Needs 1 co-chair. The laminating committee involves about 15 hours in August before school starts.  Then throughout the school year, there is a designated day each week for laminating.  Whatever day works best for the committee members.  For most of the school year, there is nothing to laminate, but the teachers will just know that there is a day every week that laminating is completed.  It’s mostly kids’ projects and items for teachers to hang in their room.  It’s just checking once a week and occasionally spending an hour laminating.  The machine takes 20 minutes to heat up.  

• Mom to Mom Sale: (if allowed): Needs 2 organized co-chairs. Organizes our popular M2M Sale, typically held in February (but may be held at convenience of schedule of the committee co-chairs).   Past committee chairs are available for questions.    Leading up to the sale, chairperson number 1, (“the party planner”), will be in charge of: creating and distributing the marketing materials, creating and managing a sign up genius for the volunteers, ordering the table set up and tear down, etc.  This role can be done from home and is great for a mom with young kids that wants to get involved, but doesn’t have a baby sitter.  Chairperson number 2 (“the brains behind the operation”)  will be in charge of: responding to the emails, organizing the sellers and vendors, and collecting their registration money.  This role is great for someone who has good organizational skills and can be done from home as well. Time commitments:  leading up to the sale it is about 10 hours per chairperson,  and the weekend of the sale is 5 hours on Friday for set up, and 7 hours on the day of the sale. If you have young kids at home consider chairing this event!  Aside from the actual weekend of the sale, it is a good one to do from home and you will also get first dibs on buying anything you want when the vendors are setting up! :)

• Mother Daughter Event: Needs 2 co-chairs. Set up an event for SCGS and ECC Mothers and Daughters. 

• School Supply Kits: Needs 1 co-chair (Amy Howard current chair)- once receiving pre-approved school supply lists from the principal and office staff, this committee helps to coordinate ordering, delivery, and distribution of school supply kits.

• Spirit Wear: Needs 1 Grade School co-chair (current chair is Elizabeth Bernhard). This committee works along with the Academy and HS Spirit Wear Committee to set up sales throughout various times of the year. 

• St. Therese Committee: Needs 2 co-chairs. This committee coordinates community service projects in honor of our Patron Saint. One example of a service they have provided the last two years is a Fall Clean-Up at Angel’s Place (an adult group home) located in the Shrine Basilica neighborhood.  More information will be available from a past committee chair.

• Teacher Luncheons: Needs 2 co-chairs. This committee coordinates three luncheons for the teachers at specific times during the school year (Fall conferences, Catholic Schools Week, Teacher Appreciation Week). The format of the luncheons has changed this past year (no potlucks) and we have had great success with a  reliable caterer this past year. More details can be provided once the committee is selected and we get closer to planning.