The Volunteers’ Common Link, the all-OES volunteer coordinating committee, meets monthly. Its purpose is to oversee the volunteer program at OES and to act as the communication link for community-wide interests and activities in cooperation with the Parent Association Links (PALs), School administration, and the OES Board of Trustees.

Goals

• Support the Mission of Oregon Episcopal School as found in this handbook.
• Enhance communication and interaction among parents, faculty, administration and students.
• Plan and implement activities and events that promote a sense of community for the entire School.
• Promote volunteerism and increase parent participation. • Support fundraising at OES.
• Maintain a parent education steering committee to assist the School in offering the most appropriate continuing education and cultural programs for parents.

Charges

Continue to implement a formal structure for the management of the OES volunteer force at the community- wide level:

• Foster a sense of teamwork and common purpose
  between staff and volunteers.
• Further define, clarify, and communicate plans for
  volunteer recognition.
• Maintain a budget and practice sound fiscal
  policies.

The VCL will plan and implement ways to increase parent involvement and community feeling at the School:

• Support and promote PAL activities in each division.
• Support and promote all school and divisional Parent Education events.
• Sponsor community forums on topics of interest and/or concern.
• Oversee and support the OES Gallery and Store, and evaluate each June.
• Conduct a year-end evaluation of the Volunteers’ Common Link’s goals, charges, and structure, and make recommendations for its future.

Structure

The membership of the Volunteers' Common Link includes the following people:

• Chairperson of the Volunteers’ Common Link, who is an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees.
• All School Volunteer Coordinator
• Secretary of the Volunteers’ Common Link
• Treasurer of the Volunteers’ Common Link
• Chair and co-chair of Lower School Parent Association Links
• Volunteer Coordinators from Lower School and Middle School Parent Association Link
• Lower, Middle, and Upper School Grade Liaisons
• Division Heads
• Head of School
• Director of Admissions & Advancement
• Chairpersons or Coordinators of communitywide activities such as Parent Education, Friends of the OES Library, the OES Gallery and Store, Auction, and OES Annual Fund and Diversity Committee
• President of the Board of Trustees.

Please participate. Attend your divisional PAL meetings or coffees. Call if you have questions. All numbers are listed in The OES Directory.

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