We need your help to raise $50,000 by the end of the 2024-2025 academic year!
Join us as we Pave the Way for our Warriors, supporting our kids to achieve greater learning and success. It’s easy to donate! Find us via Zelle through your bank or via your Zelle app using our email address, wbmsptso@gmail.com, to donate fee-free. We also accept Venmo or PayPal @WBMSPTSO. You can also write a check or money order payable to “WBMS PTSO” and either drop it off at the front office or mail it to Willie L. Brown Middle School, Attn: WBMS PTSO, 2055 Silver Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124. Be sure to write off your generous tax-deductible donation to the WBMS PTSO by including our EIN# 92-0530082.
Donating to the 2024-2025 PTSO Annual Fund is the easiest, quickest, and only tax deductible way to directly impact our WBMS Warriors’ growth and enrichment. As this is our first official Annual Fund, you are helping to Pave The Way for Our Warriors and generations of students to come.
Many of the excellent low- or no-cost programs from which our students and their families benefit are not covered by the SFUSD operating budget. To keep our offerings robust, equitable, and accessible to all our students, it’s up to our community to fundraise the rest. We have a goal of raising $50,000 this academic year.
- $10 helps fund paper, pencils, notecards, and notebooks for one student
- $25 buys sweet treats and healthy snacks in a teacher appreciation gift
- $50 covers supplemental educational supplies for one classroom
- $75 supports one of WBMS’ extracurricular clubs for one semester
- $500 sponsors five 6th grade students on their SF Giants class trip, which includes building community pride, visiting the Giants Museum, receiving rich SF history lessons, and attending a game together
- $1,000 sponsors five 7th grade students on their Great Wolf Lodge field trip, which focuses on relationship building, independence, and, for many students, their first chance to play in the snow
- $1,500 sponsors three 8th grade students on their college tour trip to Southern California, which supports their pathway to higher education and career development, and is complemented by a trip to Disneyland, where our Warriors get a unique tour of the rides, putting our Robotics, Computer Science, and Engineering lessons to work
But Wait…There’s More!
- Ask grandparents, godparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, coworkers, and friends to donate too.
- Add WBMS’ PTSO to your employer’s gift matching program. You’ll need our EIN# 92-0530082. Please note: our Benevity application is in processing! We will update this note once we’re officially a Benevity-recognized corporate philanthropy charity.
- Make an in-kind donation. Commonly needed products and services include color printing, branded swag items, snacks and food for our faculty and staff Appreciation Days or the Brown Bucks incentive program, graphic design, classroom and event support, and chaperones, just to name a few. Fill out the form at the bottom of this page.
- Spread the word and attend our annual Casino Night Fundraiser on January 25, 2025, AND donate an item for the Silent Auction.
$50k?! What do you need all of that for?!
We’re so glad you asked!
The 2024-25 WBMS PTSO budget increased by 50% from the 2023-24 budget for two reasons: first, our school enrollment grew and second, the PTSO needs to cover the funding gap from budget cuts from SFUSD, Good Samaritan, and the Beacon after school program.
2024-25 is the first year that Willie L. Brown MS is at capacity in our 6th and 7th grades; the 8th grade class also grew. This directly impacts funding needs for grade level enrichment programs. About $20,000 of the PTSO budget pays for special enrichment field trips for the students, including the 8th grade college tour/Disneyland trip, a 7th grade trip to the waterpark at Great Wolf Lodge with a snow day in Tahoe, and a 6th grade trip to watch a Oracle Park and a Giants game. It’s important to remember that, while some of these local destinations are commonplace for a few families, they are inaccessible and unaffordable for most. The WBMS staff, faculty, and PTSO use these trips to foster a sense of curiosity and exploration in our students while also allowing these Californians to enjoy what’s in their own backyard before going off into the world as young adults. The PTSO is committed to allocating $10K, $6K, and $4K ($20,000 total) to the 8th, 7th and 6th grade field trips, respectively.
The remainder of the budget subsidizes classroom supplies, campus equipment, and technological upgrades not funded by SFUSD; academic enrichment like after-school tutoring, college and career readiness programs and events, and extracurricular clubs and athletics; community engagement events like the Welcome BBQ, Trunk-or-Treat, and Earth Day Celebrations; cultural heritage and affinity group events such as the LatinX Heritage, Black History, AAPI Heritage, and Pride Months; fun community-building and stewardship events like school dances, monthly staff appreciation breakfasts, the annual Volunteer Appreciation Ice Cream Social.
With all that we aim to support, we hope to also have a $10,000 cushion to ease cash flow needs and deadlines for the beginning of the next school year (2025-26).
With the close partnership of staff and faculty, rooted in best practices and guided by student enthusiasm, your PTSO leadership, consisting of an executive board and community chairs and members, work hard to design a manageable, impactful budget. Not only do we ask that you donate to the PTSO Annual Fund, we hope you will join us at PTSO meetings to help us Pave the Way for Our Warriors.
