An Easy and Painless Way to Raise Money For Schools
With the state of California cutting educational funding, many school Parent Faculty Clubs (PFCs) are looking to help bridge the budget gaps any way that they can. A painless way to help raise money for the school of your choice is with the eScrip program. eScrip is proven to be a fantastic resource for fundraising where participating business partners contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards, credit card, and debit/ATM card purchases to the school, group or organization of your choice.
Here’s How it Works
- You register any one or all of your existing grocery loyalty, debit and credit cards for use in the program.
- Participating merchants will make contributions to your chosen group, based on purchases made by you, just by using the cards you have registered.
- Your purchases are tracked and available to you online, allowing you to see just how much you are earning on your child’s behalf!
Many of the participating merchants are stores and restaurants that we frequent every day. Here are just a few and the % that they contribute:
- Safeway – up to 4%
- Macy’s – 1%
- Round Table – up to 6%
Here is a full list of the participating merchants.
Please check the PFC website for the school that you would like to support. Here are just a few:
Similar to eScrip, SCRIP is a gift card issued by a retail store. Each store sells their SCRIP to a participating school at a discount (profit percentage). Here is an example with the Dublin Elementary program: Starbuck’s has a profit percentage of 7%. Starbuck’s sells Dublin Elementary $100 of SCRIP for $93. You purchase $100 of SCRIP for $100. Dublin Elementary makes a profit of $7! The profit comes directly from the store.
eScrip and SCRIP are both fantastic ways to help raise funds for the school of your choice.
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12:42 PM on October 3rd, 2009
Good Job. John.
Way to keep the peeps updated.
1:01 PM on October 3rd, 2009
I added my AMEX and my Parents.
I also Called Safeway and Combined my Parents and my Club Card on one number. This builds more gas discounts.
I think schools should spend 20 minutes explaining this to parents on Back to school night and dump all the garbage about how hard they work for us and why they missed there deadlines for projects etc.
We ALL work hard, Just tell us how we can help..
9:59 PM on October 3rd, 2009
Hi Chris – that sounds like a great idea. Hopefully the PFCs will set the time up at the beginning of the school year (or mid-year at this point) to walk parents through the process of getting setup w/ eScript or SCRIP. The ROI on the time spent providing instruction will be phenomenal!
Thx, John Z.
11:19 AM on October 4th, 2009
The checker at Safeway said that they stopped the discounted gas program when using their club card, but at least we can still earn eScrip money for the schools.
12:04 AM on October 5th, 2009
Hey Guys,
Just FYI, I know that several schools (Murray included) already have a bank of computers set up on their registration day so parents can log in and update the info. It is also important to note that you MUST update the Safeway account EVERY YEAR. It isn’t a once and you’re done thing. Many parents forget to update their eScript profile and reactivate their club cards every year and this leads to a drop off in funding.
I would talk to your school site and suggest the bank of computers, (in case they don’t already do it). This program is the easiest form of “fundraising” that I know of. It also helps to have a parent volunteer at the bank of computers to help parents register if they have questions.