Every year California State PTA compiles a packet of financial information and resources to help your PTA run the financial side of your organization. Typically, PTA presidents receive the Financial Mailing in the fall and all PTA officers can view and download the packet from the California State PTA Leaders’ website.
Check out the Leaders’ Website to download the contents for the 2025-2026 Financial Mailing.
View the Leaders’ Website
Most of the materials in the Financial Mailing are available in both English and Spanish. They include:
- Tax Filing Support Center Information
- State of California Attorney General’s Tips and Resources for Charities
- PTA as an Employer – What You Need to Know
- The 2025 AIM Insurance Guide — English and Spanish
Helpful Tips to Protect your PTA
The PTA insurance policy protects all members of the PTA in case they are held legally liable for bodily injury or property damage to another person that resulted from a covered PTA event. This is not a medical policy, but a policy that pays because you are legally liable.
Download the 2026 Insurance Guide (English | Spanish)
If someone is injured, but the injury is not the result of PTA negligence, the individual should utilize his/her medical insurance for coverage. The policy is designed to cover allowable PTA events. Our PTA insurance does not provide any coverage for booster clubs, parent clubs or any non-PTA event. It is critical that before planning any PTA activities the RED, YELLOW and GREEN list included in the insurance guide be reviewed. Certain activities and events are prohibited because they are excluded by the insurance policy or because they are dangerous or jeopardize the safety of our children and youth. If the PTA sponsors a RED event and someone is injured because of PTA negligence, the individual PTA officers could be held personally liable.
Check the Insurance services page for additional information.
Welcome to the 2025-2026 PTA Term!
The State Board of Directors and I are so excited to greet you as we once again begin to do amazing work on behalf of children, youth and families.
As you look forward to the year ahead, I know that you are planning wonderful things for your community to enjoy. I’m certain your calendar is full of programs to connect families, meetings to inform and inspire, and hopefully some relationship building with your PTA team. I also encourage you to add some self-care. PTA work can take a lot of energy, so be sure that you and your PTA board take time to rest and rejuvenate during the year.
In case you missed our Summer Mailer “Unpacking” Webinar, we have the full recording available below.
Thank you for stepping up to do great things for California children and families Today, Tomorrow, Together.
Sincerely,
Heather Ippolito
California State PTA President
Read more about the Summer Mailer including:
Download a PDF copy of the Summer Mailer below.
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In honor of PTA’s 125th Anniversary, we are asking cities, counties, and school boards throughout California to recognize PTA. You can make that happen! Not only is this a great opportunity to become a little more civically engaged, it’s is fun and exciting for the kids and volunteers who make up your PTA.
Click here to download the PTA Proclamation Kit to use as your guide in getting started on your PTA proclamation.
Learn how to: 
- Prepare, plan and coordinate for your proclamation request;
- Access Founders’ Day resources;
- Use sample phone scripts and letters;
- Make the most of your proclamation moment and more!
Coordinate your Proclamation Locally
- Everyone should have the chance to participate. Coordinate locally so you don’t have several requests go to the same government agency.
- Individual school site PTAs can talk to their principal and see if the PTA can be highlighted at a virtual or in person assembly.
- Council PTAs can consider asking the School Board and the city or cities in their council to recognize them during a meeting.
- District PTAs can consider asking the county/or county’s Board of Supervisors and Board of Education to recognize them during a meeting
More resources to celebrate PTA’s 125th birthday:
Share Your Founders’ Day Or Proclamation Success Story
CALIFORNIA STATE PTA DAY RESOLUTIONS
- Contra Costa County Board of Education (CCCBOE) added Resolution 25-21/22 to their February 9th Board Agenda to recognize California State PTA Day.
- Mayor of the City of Pleasant Hill Michael G. Harris, OD commends PTA on the occasion of its 125th anniversary and proclaims February 17, 2022 as “PTA Appreciation Day”.
- Mt. Diablo Unified School District Governing Board has approved a resolution recognizing Thursday, February 17th, 2022 as the 125th Anniversary of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and California State PTA Day.
On December 15th, the window for reporting your Workers’ Compensation status opens. Your president will receive an email with the link for filling out the Workers’ Compensation survey. You have until January 31st, 2022 to report any employees/independent contractors/sole proprietors who have provided services for your PTA for the time period between January 5th, 2021 and January 4th, 2022.
In order to fill out the survey, you will need information about any individual you paid directly for services during that time period. Do not include companies with more than one employee or board members you have reimbursed for purchases they made on your PTA’s behalf. Most PTAs do not owe an additional premium because they don’t have any qualifying workers that they need to cover.
If an individual has their own Workers’ Compensation insurance, they should provide you with proof.
If an individual does not have their own Workers’ Compensation insurance (liability insurance is not the same), you must cover them. The state of California does not require sole proprietors to carry their own, but our insurance company does in order to keep the costs of your general insurance down. You will need to report the total amount of money paid to the individual. The additional premium is 5% of the total of all paid individuals, minus the first $1,000.00.
The Workers’ Compensation insurance premium, if required, is paid directly to AIM. You will receive an invoice after you submit the paperwork to them.
For further information check out: https://capta.org/pta-leaders/services/insurance/
Don’t forget taxes (for most of us) are due November 15th! Does your unit make less than $50,000 in gross revenue a year? Then you are eligible to file your taxes by postcard. Are you nervous about doing it yourself? Need some help? We have tax filing assistance available for postcard filers November 8-10 from 4-7pm. Contact treasurer@capta.org for an appointment.
Attend our LCAP webinar and learn about the latest changes to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)-Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) template and how you can directly impact your child’s education, school, and school district.
Date and time: TBD – This webinar has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Please stay tuned for reschedule date.
This guide will help you in preparing a resolution for potential review, vote and adoption by delegates to the California State PTA Annual Convention.
Resolutions call attention to a problem and a need for action on a particular issue. They are a major source of policy for the California State PTA and its units, councils and districts. If a problem or situation has statewide implications affecting children and youth and warrants PTA action, a convention resolution is one way to authorize action.
Download the guide.
What makes the “PTA difference” so much better for schools? There are many other parent groups, but only one PTA. For more than one hundred years, PTA has made a difference in the lives of all children and families. And only PTA offers your members, school and community the connected network of leaders and experts.
California State PTA is continuing to move forward with its online membership system to make joining and renewing PTA membership at the local level easier for parents, families and community members.
With more than 90 percent of our local PTA leaders asking for a simplified electronic membership system in last year’s Unit Leader Survey, we heard you loud and clear! We are pleased to announce that California State PTA and Moonlight Labs are currently building out our membership system. The new system will be optional and make joining and renewing membership at local PTAs easy.
We have begun our quality assurance testing and the California State PTA Electronic Membership Task Force has identified the pilot districts to onboard into the new system. Additional districts will be added with a success-based model.
As a reminder, there are no changes to PTA’s membership process and the electronic system will be completely voluntary and an optional addition to our current system. We will keep you posted as we progress in this important work to build membership and strengthen PTA. Units, councils or districts will not be required to use the new system.
All of your feedback and input are being taken very seriously. Please feel free to send any questions or feedback to info@capta.org. We will keep you posted as we progress in this important work to build membership and strengthen PTA.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES