HOW TO GET INVOLVED

Saint Patrick School Foundation

 

Have you heard about the Saint Patrick School Foundation? The Saint Patrick’s School Foundation is a United States IRS recognized charitable corporation which qualifies under Section 501 (c)(3).   The foundation was founded in 2017 and has the sole purpose of raising funds to support St. Patrick’s School located in Carleton MI. It is the goal of foundation to provided advanced technology, educational support, support growth strategies, and assist in school facility improvements as needed.   

Latest update from SPS Foundation: 

St. Patrick School Foundation

Since the formation of the St. Patrick School Foundation we have provided Tuition Assistance

to many students making Catholic Education more affordable. We are happy to help bring

students into our school with these scholarships and are proud to be part of it our growth! Last

spring the foundation purchased an additional 25 Chromebooks for our students, and we are

now excited to say that we have 1 to 1 student coverage with our technology! The St. Patrick

School Foundation will once again be sponsoring the prizes for 23rd Annual School Auction

Raffle. The cash prize awards have been one of our annual sponsorship for the school, so we

need your help in selling the raffle tickets. A few weeks ago, we purchased 8 new bathroom

faucets for the new school. The installation is planned soon so those kids can thoroughly wash

their hands heading into Fall. We would like to welcome Joel Grubb to our Board of

Directors. Joel joins Aaron Jones, Ericka Alessandrini, Pat Wickenheiser, Tom Busen, and

Jessica Jones to complete our current board of Directors. Lastly we would like to thank our

generous donors over the past year, your donations allow our Foundation to continue to

provide for our students! https://spscarleton.com/

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23rd Annual St. Patrick School Auction

in-person December 3, 2021

Location:  Grafton Hall Carleton

Doors open at 5pm

Dinner at 6:45 

Live auction begins at 7:45

Raffle Tickets currently on sale at  the following link:

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(Dinner ticket sales coming soon!)

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2020 online auctions/December & March replaced the in-person

auction generated $62,672 profit for St. Patrick School!

 Thank you to everyone for their patience and generosity as we navigated through a year of  COVID-19 pandemic restrictions while continuing to maintain our fundraising profit!  

 

2019 auction generated $73,000 in revenue!

Auction proceeds have been used for:

• Upgrades of Technology 

• Textbook and curriculum upgrades

• maintaining affordable tuition

• Teacher raises

• Keeping tuition affordable for our families

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Remember Pizza Fundraiser Fridays

 

Every Friday at St. Patrick School we are serving a pizza lunch as a fundraiser.

• $5.00 for pizza, drink, fruit and treat

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Get your shopping done and help SPS at the same time! 

WHAT IS SCRIP?

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Scrip is a great way to earn money towards tuition just by buying things you already buy all the time, groceries, gas, dining out.

Since we did not have a back to school night this year, I was not able to give my Scrip presentation.  I know some families are wondering how it works, and I’m hoping this will explain it a bit.

Let’s say you’re out shopping at Lowe’s, you look at your cart and think, I got about $50 worth of stuff.  You go to the RaiseRight app on your phone and order a Lowe’s gift card, a minute later the cashier just scans the gift card on your phone.

Once you're done there, you go across the street for dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings.  Order a gift card on your phone, and earn tuition credit from your dinner.

After you're done eating, you get in the car and realize you need to stop and get gas, so you reload your gas card, and minutes later you can stop and get gas.

How it works, is you buy gift cards and earn a rebate.  There are over 700 companies to choose from.

There are 3 types of cards, physical cards, e-gift cards and Reloadable.  E-gift cards are available in minutes, ready to use on your phone, or print out for gift giving.  

Reloadable cards,you order the physical card from scrip, register it, then reload it whenever your need. There are 2 types of reload cards.

Overnight reload, add money to the card, the website says by 3.30 pm, but I have done it up until 7 pm, and the funds are available the next morning by 8am.  Reload now, the funds are available in minutes.

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Parents, think about how much money you spend on gas running your kids around. The majority of gas companies are reloadable.

I know a lot of families shop at Meijer, they have a reloadable card, and you can use the same card to pay for your groceries and get gas.

Kohls, let’s you pay their credit card with scrip, that way you can take advantage of all their sales, and earn tuition credit when you pay for it.

Orders for physical cards are usually placed once a month.  You can order the cards anytime you want, sometimes there are bonuses if you order on that day.  Just keep in mind that you will not get the cards until I actually place the order for the school.  The cards are sent home with your child.  Some cards are available for shipping right to your home.

The only form of payment the school accepts is Presto Pay and credit cards.  The website will give the option of paying by check, but we do not accept checks.

Signing up is easy, you can sign up and start ordering all in the same day.  You can also have friends and family members sign up and they can earn money for you as well, just be sure they list your student.

With this program, 50% goes to the school for running the program, and 50% goes towards your tuition.

 

Check out the shopwithscrip.com website for more information and to sign up.  Our enrollment code is (please contact Yvette for this unfortunately there are scammers our there)  

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Scrip website: http://www.shopwithscrip.com

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Scrip coordinator contact:

Yvette Vroman

(734)790-1853  

eyvroman@hotmail.com

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General Mills Boxtops for Education

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Box Tops have moved ONLINE, making it easier to turn them in! Download the app, set up to deposit to our school and then just scan your grocery receipt after you shop. It automatically notes when products are available for the ten-cent donation. That’s it! No cutting, no stuffing them in a drawer or forgetting to bring them in. Examples of eligible General Mills products are; Kleenex, Betty Crocker, Progresso, Green Giant, Pillsbury, Old El-Paso, Yoplait Go-Gurt, etc. This is available to anyone; you do not need to be a current family or parent. Please consider getting set up to support our school!

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Printer cartridge and cell phone recycling

 

Empty name brand computer ink cartridges, name brand toner cartridges, and cell phones are brought to the school office. These are recycled and the profit is returned to the school.​

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