MBHS PTSA - Painless Fundraising

December 3, 2011

FREE MONEY!

PAINLESS WAYS TO RAISE $$ FOR MONTGOMERY BLAIR HIGH SCHOOL

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Now on Amazon.com:
Montgomery Blair High School PTSA Store

Support reading and raise funds for Blair, painlessly.  Our PTSA Amazon store is http://astore.amazon.com/mbhsptsa-20.

On that page, click on the link that says "powered by Amazon" on the left hand side.

That will take you to the main site - and ANYTHING YOU BUY will help out our school PTSA.  We get up to 6 percent revenue from any purchase.

You can also use that page to buy books for donation to the Media Center, books by Blair affiliated-authors, and test preperation items.

If you are not ready to shop now but might later - bookmark the page on your computer so you don't forget.  Keep the online book store in mind when you do your holiday shopping!

The PTSA Amazon Store features:

• Media Center Wish list - over 80 titles the Blair media specialists would love to add to their shelves!
• MBHS Authors & Artists - books, recordings, and movies produced by Blair alumni, staff, and parents.
• MCPL Teen Reads - over 30 titles recommended by Montgomery County Public Library staff.
• Test Prep - books and flash cards to review for APs, SATs, etc.
• Gift cards, Kindle, everything you need for the readers in your life.

Have questions?  A title we should know about?  Send an e-mail to mbhsamazon at gmail.com.

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Here are some more ways to support Blair where you shop, at no cost to you:

1. GIANT A+ Bonus Bucks

   Please register your Giant Bonus Cards for this year's A+ BonusBucks school program.  Remember, you MUST sign up for this program every school year, Giant has discarded all previous years' signups!

   You can start signing up for this year's Giant A+ program in September.  A+BonusBucks program runs from October 7, 2011-March 29, 2012.  Go to http://www.giantfood.com/aplus to sign up and register your card.  Blair's school code is 00906.  Don't know your 12-digit Giant card number?  Call the program’s hotline at 1-877-366-2668 and Giant will look up your Bonus Card information and register you.  You can select up to three schools to benefit from your purchases.  If choosing more than one school, be sure to input all schools at the same time -- if you update your selections later, the last transaction overrides the previous one.

   It's best to sign up for Giant's program online, instead of filling out a designation card at Giant stores or mailing those cards in.  Why?  You'll be signed up immediately online.  Designation cards filled out at stores are sent out to a data processing unit, which takes extra time.  Also, if there's a discrepancy on the designation card vs what's in Giant's database for that Bonus card number, the registration cannot be processed.

   Please encourage friends, family and neighbors to register their Giant cards to help Blair (you can support up to three schools)!  This is FREE MONEY for our school from your regular Giant grocery shopping, by just linking your Bonus card number to Blair!

   Note the Giant funds go directly to Blair - not the PTSA.

2. Register your Safeway card for its school rebate program at www.escrip.com.  The program is handled by eScrip, not by Safeway — you cannot sign up at Safeway stores.  Enter Blair's ID 6539098 (or search for Montgomery Blair High School) and fill out a short form.  You must have your Safeway card number; call 1-877-SAFEWAY first if you don’t.  If you signed up for this program with eScrip before, you’re listed in eScrip’s database, but everyone must renew every school year at the eScrip site for the Safeway funding to continue.  Be sure that your students’ current schools get your support by going to the My eScrip link to update your school choices.  Safeway’s school-year program goes from October 1-May 31; there’s also a special seven-week summer program, “10% Back to Schools.”  We can enroll you if you send us your name, address, email address and 11-digit Safeway card number.  Up to three schools can benefit from your shopping.  If you need help renewing or updating your existing record, please contact us.

   Don’t shop at Safeway?  You can still help Blair with other eScrip programs by linking a credit or debit card to Blair’s eScrip site and using that card when you shop.  For restaurants and hotels that are part of eScrip, go to http://escrip.rewardsnetwork.com/.  Shopping at Eddie Bauer and Pep Boys stores with a registered debit or credit card will benefit Blair.  To donate a vehicle to benefit Blair (plus get a tax write off), see http://v-dac.com.  DriversEd.com, an online driver’s education class, is part of eScrip.

   Your online shopping can benefit Blair thru eScrip's Online Mall, which includes over 800 merchants.  Each time you buy from these online stores by FIRST going to the eScrip Web site, signing in to your account and from that site going to the store's site, Blair receives a rebate if you’ve designated Blair and pay with an eScrip-registered credit or debit card.  1-800-FLOWERS, Barnes&Noble, Best Buy, Eddie Bauer, Gap, Hickory Farms, J.C. Penney, Lands' End, Office Depot, Oriental Trading, PetSmart, Scholastic, Sharper Image, Sony, Spiegel, Sports Authority, Staples, Target and more are part of the eScrip program.  Family members can support Blair when they shop online, no matter where they live!

   

3. Save Snider's receipts all year.  They can be dropped off in the PTSA mailbox in school’s front office.  Blair earns 1% of the value of total purchases.  Snider's is an independent grocery store located in Silver Spring on Seminary Rd near Georgia Ave.  See www.sniderfoods.com to learn more about this wonderful store that supports our schools!

4. Enroll your Target Visa card in the Take Charge of Education program.  Enter the requested info for Montgomery Blair High School (school ID 58162) at www.target.com and the school gets a percentage from your purchases.  This program does not require an annual renewal, but be sure to update your school selection if you originally signed up for this program at a different school.  Shop online at target.com with your Target Visa card that you’ve registered with eScrip and double your rebate!

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   Blair's ID number for this program is 70047345, and the cashier can look up the school’s number -- but please remember to mention this program at check out so that Blair can benefit.

   The program runs all year long at all Office Depot stores!

Thank you for helping Blair earn additional funding through these easy and painless programs!  Blair earned over $10,000 last school year from painless fundraising efforts.  Please share this information with your family, co-workers and neighbors.

"Painless" Ways to Support our School While Shopping
Store	Blair's Code		Recent Contributions - sign up and help us do more this year
Giant	00906	Registration begins in late August, and everyone MUST sign up EVERY SCHOOL YEAR.  If you don't know your 12-Digit Giant BonusCard number, call the BonusCard hotline at: 1-877-366-2668 and Giant can register you.	$792 2011-2012 YTD total - 169 cards registered
Safeway	6539098	Everyone must RENEW every year for the Safeway rebate. Don't know your Safeway card number? Call Safeway at 1-877-SAFEWAY, then go to www.escrip.com to register for the grocery rebate.	$3,056 2010-2011 total
Office Depot	70047345	Customer must give cashier either this number or the name of the school at checkout for the purchase to be credited.  The program is in effect all year long, not just at back-to-school time!
Snider's		Save receipts, send to PTSA c/o Blair, we get 1%.	$1,157 2010-2011 total
Target	58162	Donations total 1% of your purchases at Target and Target.com and 1/2% of purchases made elsewhere with your Target® Visa®.  It is not necessary to register each year, but please update to ensure that Blair gets your donation.	$879 2010-2011 total (58 REDcard holders have designated Blair)