Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Everyday Shopping Generates Profits

2009-03-03T18:53:19Z

Print your own Scrip Order Form!
Please note that this list is subject to change.

Scrip is a fund raising program designed so that a percentage of your everyday purchases turn into cash contributions made directly to our school. This program provides an opportunity for businesses to give back to the community that supports them. Our school depends on this program as part of our annual operating budget.

Each retailer establishes what percentage of purchases it will contribute back to the school. Knowing how much each retailer will contribute will help you make more informed shopping choices. Some retailers will contribute back as much as 20%, others as low as 1%. We clearly mark on the Scrip Order Form exactly how much each retailer is currently contributing. The Scrip Committee, along with suggestions from school and parish families, will research new opportunities for Scrip participants throughout the year. There are times when a retailer will choose to opt out of the program.

Friends and Family can help by signing up for eScrip and choosing Mount Carmel as the beneficiary and buying Scrip through the school – you earn the credit. They do need to complete the Scrip Family and Friends form and return it to the school office in order for you to receive the credit.

There are two ways in which you can participate in Scrip. One is electronic (eScrip), and the second is the purchase of gift certificates and gift cards; Mount Carmel Schools Gift Card Mall through the office, the weekly envelope or online at ShopwithScrip.com

How does ShopWithScrip work?

2010-09-21T22:21:54Z

ShopWithScrip is an online Scrip order system that allows you to pay by check at school, or immediately by linking to your checking account using PrestoPay. You will need our enrollment code to set up your account which is 271A869545L6.Click here to register and follow the prompts. It’s easy – order any day, any time and pay with PrestoPay (your checking account is linked to your ShopWithScrip account) or by sending a check with your order printout to school the next day. If you use PrestoPay, there is a nominal 39 cent transaction fee per order. Please note that PrestoPay can only be used to purchase items offered by Great Lakes Scrip. We also offer many items that we purchase locally. If, when you attempt to use PrestoPay, you are told you must pay by check, that is the reason – nothing is wrong with your PrestoPay account. When registering for PrestoPay, you will be e-mailed an authorization code that you will send to us to authorize you as a registered school family. E-mail your code to scrip@mountcarmel.org. When your account is authorized, you will receive an e-mail. Online orders placed by 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning are filled just as if you had turned in a blue Order Form. In-stock items will be filled and sent home on Thursdays, while “Special Order” items (there are a LOT more of them on the website than we have room to list on our form!) will come home the following Thursday. If you do not use PrestoPay, make sure you send a check the next morning, attached to a printout of the order. Unpaid orders will not be filled until a check is received. Orders placed after Thursday morning, but before 8:00 a.m. the following Monday will be delivered the next Thursday.

What is Scrip?

2009-05-22T19:22:58Z

The school purchases gift certificates and gift cards at a discounted price, and the school earns the difference between the face value (your purchase price) and the negotiated price. We carry gift cards for the places you shop at everyday – Safeway, Arco, Shell, Chevron, Lucky, Longs, Gap, Payless Shoes, Toys R Us, Starbucks and Whole Foods, to name just a few. We also have many more retailers that can be Special Ordered on a weekly basis. Orders are placed every Monday and are delivered the following Thursday. As a rule – paper Scrip (gift cards and certificates) purchased through the school provide a greater contribution back to the school, sometimes as much as 20%. This not only makes it a good fundraiser for the school, but you meet your annual Scrip commitment easier and faster.

So what is eScrip?

2009-05-22T19:25:50Z

eScrip is a national program where you, your family members and friends register their debit, credit cards and retailer specific cards (like your Safeway Club Card) at www.escrip.com, designating Mount Carmel School as the primary benefactor. Every purchase you make at a participating eScrip retailer is automatically calculated and credited to your scrip account and then to the school. Some of the biggest retailers only participate this way, and their contributions are in the 1 to 2% range. eScrip is very convenient to use, however, these contribution percentages are continually shrinking. For more information about retailers who participate, be sure to visit eScrip.

Scrip Share

2009-05-22T19:26:15Z

At the end of the school year, if you have exceeded your net profit commitment to the school of $240.00, the excess amount is split 50/50 with the school. You can choose to have your portion credited to your tuition for the coming school year, or you can designate your portion to be donated to a fund of your choice (e.g. endowment, Adopt a Student, Technology, Library, etc.).

Scrip Myths

2009-05-22T20:13:56Z

I am signed up with eScrip, so I don’t need to buy any gift cards/paper Scrip. eScrip alone will, most likely, not get you to your commitment. Why? Because the rebate back to the school with eScrip is significantly lower than with gift cards/paper Scrip. For example, using eScrip alone, you would need to purchase/spend over $20,000 in 12 months at Safeway to meet your commitment. By purchasing Safeway gift cards through the school, you would only need to spend $10,000 per year at Safeway to not only meet, but exceed your commitment. Moral of the story? Use both. Combine eScrip with gift card/paper Scrip purchases. We have lots of inventory in stock for all your favorite places, and Special Orders are placed every Monday, and sent home the following Thursday. Make buying Scrip a habit. Purchase just your gas and grocery needs each week and you will easily meet your commitment, and you might even go over your commitment amount and receive a rebate at the end of the school year.

How do I buy Scrip?

2010-09-15T22:43:12Z

Scrip can be purchsed every school day during school hours in the front office. You can also purchase scrip online by visiting www.shopwithscrip.com

Order Scrip Online

2009-10-06T17:35:36Z

Click here to register and follow the prompts (enrollment code is to the left under “How Does ShopWithScrip Work?”). It’s easy – order any day, any time and pay with PrestoPay (your checking account is linked to your ShopWithScrip account) or by sending a check with your order printout to school the next day. If you use PrestoPay, there is a nominal 15 cent transaction fee per order.

Scrip Honor Roll

2011-02-22T21:22:14Z

through May 2, 2011 Padre Circle exceeded commitment by 300% or more Bracco Friel Lyons Pellizzari Gold Circle exceeded commitment by 100% or more Calder Castellanos Dei Rossi Nishimura (Hwang) Pardini Pedrin Rengstorff Sacco Sammons Soderer Valdez Blue Circle exceeded commitment by 50% or more Cuevas (Nunez) Denning Flores Giorgi Herro Ilnicki (Lambert) Lyon Musich O’Toole Peck Raiti Schiel Schonfeld Sepulveda Simon White Circle exceeded minimum; on way to Blue Circle! Amaya Avila Bagot Bottarini Ceschin Chetcuti Clausing Cocker Del Carlo Diaz Felise Finn Furrer Gallagher-Langridge Garcia Gonzales Gory Growney Hersh Hilton Hird Huerta Jabba Keelan Lindberg Lopez Martinez Molina Perez Petersen-Duran Plumpton Rasmussen Rey Rivera Rodriguez Sample Schneider Schwoerer Skinner Smith Sullivan Thompson Thorn (Trulillo) Walan

Volunteer Opportunity

2009-05-22T20:20:06Z

The Scrip committee works to make the Scrip program convenient for our school and parish families as well as effective and profitable for Mount Carmel School. You can earn volunteer hours by participating on the committee and filling Scrip orders every Thursday morning from 9 – 11 a.m. You can also earn hours by selling Scrip after Mass. If you have any questions about Scrip, please contact the Development Office