Get Involved 

There are many ways to be involved at Turtle Lake. Through volunteering, attending meetings, making donations, or becoming a PTA member you can make a difference in your child's grade school experience. 

Turtle Lake is fortunate to have an active PTA that provides enrichment to all students and staff. While our fundraising has increased in recent years, we have many volunteer roles left unfilled resulting in a small amount of parents giving a lot of their time. Please consider becoming involved, even the smallest time commitment can help! 

Become a Member

Become a member of the PTA and help determine how to best spend the money raised throughout the school year and enrich the lives of our students, families, and staff. Membership is $7.25 and includes access to resources from both the Minnesota and National PTA to help our children reach their highest potential. Turtle Lake PTA does not keep any money from membership dues, it passes through to the MNPTA and National PTA completely. 

Not sure of the benefits of membership? Over the summer, the Department of Education froze nearly $7 Billion in funds allocated to afterschool enrichment, support for English language learners, rural technology needs, and efforts to recruit and retain high-quality teachers. The National PTA along with 193 state and local PTAs signed onto a letter (link here) requesting the Department of Education release the education funding frozen in early July. This many-week endeavor was successful and the nearly $7 Billion in . We often reference voting on Turtle Lake PTA matters as a benefit of membership, but all of our membership dues go to the Minnesota PTA and the National PTA to support advocacy efforts just like this.

Become a Member 

Volunteer

All volunteers at Turtle Lake need to have a current background check on file with the school. Those forms are available here. Completed forms with a photocopy of ID can be emailed to turtlelake@mvpschools.org )(note, this is not the PTA email.)

• Fall Book Fair: 2025 Fall Book Fair Volunteer Sign Up (Nov 10-14)
• Ongoing: 2025-2026 Thoughtful Thursdays 

We have many ongoing needs ranging from helping prepare handouts to helping plan events, if you are interested in helping out please fill our our Volunteer Form. 

Volunteer Interest Form  

Open PTA Roles

Fall Festival Coordinators (2 Openings) (Daytime availability/flexibility helpful)

• Delegate individual tasks to team members. 
• Identify volunteer needs in the planning portion of the event 
• Ensure tasks are done in a timely manner/schedule virtual check in meetings as needed
• Provide reports to Board 
• Attendance at PTA meeting prior to event encouraged, detailed update to Board required 
• Provide post-event debrief to ensure documents created/used are in the PTA drive

Carnival Games Leads

• Inventory games & prizes
• Order prizes as needed
• Guide volunteers in staging games on Friday evening and Saturday morning (carnival day)
• Support games volunteers at carnival

Communications Co-Lead

• Support communications lead in drafting weekly Turtle Tracks emails, Facebook posts, handouts (both electronic and paper), and updating the website. 

Detailed descriptions of all PTA roles can be found here: PTA Role Descriptions (PDF)

Email TurtleLakePTA@gmail.com if you are interested in any open lead role! 

Other Resources

All volunteers at the school during school hours need to have a current background check on file with the Turtle Lake front office. Starting in September of 2025, these forms need to be filled out every school year. Completed forms with a photocopy of ID can be emailed to turtlelake@mvpschools.org )(note, this is not the PTA email.)

Background Check Forms 

Not able to volunteer now but want to keep up on what's going on with the PTA? Get on our email list!

Email List 

Donate 

We have an annual operating budget of $63,000 and allot only $11,700 to fundraising expenses and overhead. The rest of the money goes directly to classrooms, students, and events. The vast majority of our money comes from our two major fundraisers: the Fall Festival and the Read-a-Thon. We raise the rest of our funds by partnering with local businesses to host restaurant or fundraising nights or through direct donations. We also participate yearly in Give to the Max day in late November.