St. Patrick's School at 354 Elizabeth St., Oneida, NY 13421 US - Shop with our Scrip Program to help our school!
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Shop with our Scrip Program to help our school! Major retailers want to give our school money! |
We’re pleased to share some exciting news about a new fundraising program for our organization. It’s called “scrip,” and it’s the fundraising program that works while you shop. Scrip is simply a word that means “substitute money” – in other words, scrip is gift certificates from national and local retailers. They’re the same gift certificates that you would buy at the store. Many popular retailers participate in our scrip program including Lowes, Home Depot, JCPenney, The Gap, Sears, Shell, Pizza Hut, Red Lobster, Toys R Us, K-Mart and many, many others. You may view the complete list at glscrip.com. We will be providing each family who enrolls with a complete list as well. You’re probably asking yourself how these stores help us raise money. It’s simple -- scrip participating retailers agree to sell gift certificates to our organization at a discount. Member families like yours buy the certificates for full face value, they redeem them for full face value, and our school keeps the difference as revenue. And scrip is exciting, because everybody wins: The retailer gets cash up front and repeat business… You get a powerful fundraising alternative that involves no selling… Our school gets a regular source of revenue. The beauty of scrip is that you put your regular household shopping dollars to work. You earn money for our school without spending a single additional penny. Just spend your regular shopping dollars with scrip at the stores that participate in the scrip program! And scrip can be used for just about any household purchase including food, clothing, entertainment, gasoline and even dining out. This program is open to everyone. The more people who participate, the more fundraising we will be able to do, so everyone benefits. If you know of someone who might be interested, please provide us with their names and addresses, and we will mail them the information. For more information, contact Roz McConnell, Scrip Program Chairperson at 363-0042 or e-mail her at jmcconnell001@twcny.rr.com