NO FRILLS FUND RAISERS

2009-2010 School Year

NO FRILLS FUND RAISERS: An easy way for WSES parents to help the school is by participating in the many educational fund raising programs offered by local/national companies. These programs require little effort from parents and provide huge benefits for WSES. The programs we currently participate in and their requirements are:

Target: Click here to learn how to use your Red Card to help Willow Springs.

Harris Teeter: Re-Linking your Harris Teeter VIC card is quick, easy, and can be done in one of four ways:

Online at www.harristeeter.com
At the register during check out (our school number is 4673)
Send your VIC card number and last name the card is registered under to Carol Federline feddybear@msn.com and I will relink for you.
Or send your VIC card number and last name the card is registered under to Carol Federline c/o the school and I will relink for you.

Remember you only have to link 1 time between August 1st and May 31 every year!

Just a friendly reminder that we only have 36 participants this year for Harris Teeter's together in education. Please remember your VIC card must be relinked each school year for our school to benefit.

Food Lion: Many of you may not know about Food Lion's "Lion Shop N Share" Program.
All you need to do is go to foodlion.com, click on MVP card and follow the instructions on how to designate Willow Springs Elementary School (make sure you click on Willow Springs and not Willow Springs-that is not us.

Office Depot: Remember Willow Springs Elementary School when you shop for school, home or your office. Please share our school id number with coworkers, relatives and neighbors so our school may reap the benefits!

The below offer is valid year round. 5% Back to Schools Program Help our school earn FREE SUPPLIES!

Our school will earn credits equal to 5% of your qualifying school supply purchases* to use for FREE supplies. You can credit the school year round! Every time you shop at Office Depot, remember to give our school ID#.

• At any store in the U.S. or Canada

• At www.officedepot.com in the U.S. or www.officedepot.ca in Canada

• When calling 1-800-GO-DEPOT For details, visit www.officedepot.com or www.officedepot.ca and click on the 5% Back to Schools Program link under Specials at the bottom of the page.

*Limited to Pre-K-12th grade. 5% of qualifying school supply purchases made during each program period will be offered to the participating school designated by each customer quarterly in the form of an Office Depot® Merchandise Card. Qualifying purchases are categorized as basic school supplies, i.e., notebook paper, pens, pencils, crayons etc. Products that do not qualify are all technology and consumer electronic products and accessories, media and software that is not education or reference related; all furniture items and furniture accessories; all ink and toner cartridges; Gift Cards; postage stamps; purchases from Design, Print & Ship and purchases made to contract business accounts. Credits are not available to schools with less than $10 in tallied credits per quarter.

Unaccepted/declined credits are void. Other restrictions apply, visit your local Office Depot® for details. Office Depot® will honor up to $10 million in total credits to the designated schools that opt to participate.

School Name:Willow Springs Elementary

ID#:70062723 70062723

There’s more to no frills fundraising than just Boxtops and Campbells labels!
Did you know that we participate in these programs as well?

SAVE
Save UPCs (bar codes) from all Community® and Private Reserve® products available at the locations listed below:
a. Grocery Stores, Supermarkets & Other Participating Retail Outlets (Retail UPCs)
All coffee products, tea products, creamer, sugar and coffee filters contain eligible UPCs.
b. Restaurants, Hotels, Offices & Businesses (Office Coffee UPCs) Boxes of coffee and tea products delivered to restaurants, hotels and other businesses also contain high value UPCs.
Ask your parents if their employers and/or churches would save these UPC’s for us – we can get anywhere from 10-75 cents for each one!

Each Tyson project A+ label is worth 24 cents!

If you would like informational flyers to go home with your students, let me know. Otherwise you can direct parents to our no frills fundraising website at www.orgsites.com/nc/wsesnofrills where you can find information on all of the programs we participate in.