The Leveraged Funds report collects all of the resources, services, and donations you identify and coordinate for your community schools and assigns a dollar value to it. 

• It includes both cash & in-kind resources, services, or donations

• It can include the following:

  • Gift cards donated to the community school

  • In-kind services (e.g.afterschool programming & summer programming, health &  wellness programming, etc.)

  • The hours worked by volunteers

  • Supplies & materials donated to the school

Here are some tips for calculating the dollar value of donations & leveraged services. Community school coordinators and site specialists should always reach out to their supervisor if they have questions about what dollar amount to include in their Leveraged Funds Report. 

1. Ask the partner or donor - Service providers can usually tell you the cost of the program they're providing, and donors may also be able to as well. 

2. Volunteer hours - Unless you have specific data to indicate a higher rate, you can use the 2022 Maryland  minimum wage of $12.50/hr.

3. If looking for the value of school supplies or donated coats a quick Google or Amazon search may be able to give you comparable costs.

4. If calculating the value of slightly used/worn items you can use this guide from the Good Will of Northern New England, or your best judgement. 

Baltimore community schools have the most amazing partners anywhere, and the strategy wouldn't work without all of you building and managing those relationships and services. This report tracks the partners at the school level, and we are piloting a process to batch upload these partners into the PIE Portal so that you will only have to enter the information one time, into the Partners Report in your action plan. 

Tips for completing the Partners Report

• Always include the full partner name

• The partner description is just a short sentence about who they are and what they offer, e.g., Holly's Program is a partner offering afterschool services

• The First and Last Name of the partner contact must be included (it should not be you),  as should the Contact's Email

• The Partner's Business Address should be where they receive mail, not where they provide services

• Be sure to complete the "Partner Type PIE Portal" column in Blue - this will help with the batch upload of information into the PIE Portal

• Be sure to complete every column of information

• If you have questions or need help you can reach out to the community school team at City Schools.