School Fundraisers

• L.L. Bean is offering customers a 2% bonus on gift card purchases from Saturday, March 6 through Friday, April 2, 2010. 
   
• From Saturday, March 6 through Friday, April 2, 2010, T.G.I. Fridays is offering a 1% bonus contribution, making the total contribution 10%!

Scrip is a term that means "substitute money".

When our school members purchase scrip, theyre purchasing negotiable gift certificates that are used just like cash. The scrip is issued by the national and local retailers where many of our school families already shop. These merchants want to support non-profit schools, and in return ask us to support them by shopping with scrip at their stores. Our school members can use scrip to purchase everyday expenses like food, clothing, and other essentials, and with every purchase, they earn revenue for our organization.

The Great Lakes Scrip center acts on behalf of churches, schools and other non-profit organizations to purchase large amounts of scrip from grocery stores, department stores, and other retailers. Because scrip is purchased with cash up front, the participating retailers offer a substantial discount. Our organization buys the scrip from Great Lakes Scrip Center at a discount, and re-sells the certificates to your organization members for full face value. The bulk of the discount - from two to fifteen percent or more - is retained by your organization as revenue.

Scrip is "shopping cart fundraising".

The reason for the effectiveness of scrip is simple: families generate revenue through purchases they would make anyway. Groceries, clothing, toys, gifts, even gasoline can be purchased with scrip. An organization of 150 families easily spends between one and two million dollars per year on food, clothing and other essentials. If these families use scrip for these purchases, they can raise as much as $40,000 to $80,000 per year for our organization — without spending an additional penny.

Families who purchase scrip certificates actively support the retailers who participate in this program. The reason is simple... they know that buying from a scrip participating retailer provides a steady source of revenue for their church, school, or non-profit organization.

The website for SCRIP is www.glscrip.com

Scrip Stock Order Form

Last year search engines generated close to $8 billion in revenue from advertisers. Weve developed a way to direct some of that money to the causes you care about most. Its easy... every time you search the Internet at GoodSearch.com, your charity or school earns money and the more you search, the more they make. Add up the money generated from all your searches and those done by the millions of other people who we hope will use GoodSearch, and we can make a real difference to the people and causes that need funds most.

How does it work?

• On the GoodSearch homepage, enter your charity as: St Marys School - Greenville (Greenville, OH)
• Choose from thousands of organizations or add your favorite cause to our list
• Search the Internet just like you normally would — the site is powered by Yahoo!, so youll get high-quality search results.
• Fifty percent of the revenue generated from advertisers is shared with the charity, school or nonprofit organization of your choosing.

The goal of St. Marys/Paws Bingo is to promote and finance the many functions of St. Marys School and the Darke County Humane Society.