Last year, I was pondering the same idea. It would be great to get together with area PTO's. I never got it off the ground since it was a SUPER busy year for me (chaired both 4 school bookfairs, implemented our new walkathon and ran it, did the newsletter, maintained the website, and handled all the grant requests, chaired the Winter Wonderland amongst a myriad host of other things) One thing I did do was to go to another school's PTO sponsored walkathon and met with them and got advice on it. It was a great way to share information and I was very grateful for that. It could be tough to get everyone together that often, perhaps 2-3 times a year would be workable with everyone's different schedules. Good luck - I think you should do it. Let us know how it goes!!

Has anyone tried meeting with other PTO's in their school district. Myself and a prez from another school (in the district) have been tossing around this idea. We would meet bi-monthly to start, and each meeting would be an information sharing/brainstorming session with the other groups on specific topics such as fundraising, familiy involement, etc. We think we could share a lot of ideas and things we are doing, rather than starting from scratch each time we do something. Also, we could do some group events (e.g. we had a college planning night at our school and about 30 families showed up out of more than 600 at our school. We could partner with other schools rather than each doing their own).

Any thoughts or advice on this before we dive in? I am afraid we might be starting something we are not ready for.