What is Scrip?

Scrip is a term that means "substitute money". When St. Raphael purchases scrip, we're purchasing negotiable gift certificates that are used just like cash. The scrip is issued by the national and local retailers where many of us already shop. These merchants want to support non-profit organizations, and in return ask you to support them by shopping with scrip at their stores. You can use scrip to purchase everyday items like food, clothing, and other essentials, and with every purchase, you earn revenue for your St. Raphael School and toward your own tuition bill.

Click Here for a list of participating vendors.

Click Here to download a Scrip order form.

Scrip Hours

Thursday and Friday - 8 - 9 am

Wednesday, Tursday and Friday - 2:20 - 3:00 pm

Scrip will not be delivered to Latch Key if Ms. Beaubien is not there.

How Scrip generates revenue for you

The Great Lakes Scrip center acts on behalf of churches, schools and other non-profit organizations to purchase large amounts of scrip from grocery stores, department stores, and other retailers. Because the scrip is purchased with cash up-front, the participating retailers offer a substantial discount. Your organization buys the scrip from Great Lakes Scrip Center at a discount and resells the certificates to your organization members for full face value. The bulk of the discount - from 2 to 15 percent or more, is retained by your organization as revenue and split 60/40 with you to be used as credit towards your your tuition bill. You get 60% of the profit and St. Raphael gets 40%.

Scrip is "shopping cart fundraising"

The reason for the effectiveness of scrip is simple - families produce revenue by making purchases they would make anyway. Groceries, clothing, toys, gifts, even gasoline can be purchased with scrip. An organization of 150 families easily spends between 1 and 2 million dollars per year on food, clothing and other essentials. If these families use scrip for these purchases, they can raise as much as $40,000 to $80,000 per year for their organization - without spending an additional penny.

Retailers like scrip too.

Families who purchase scrip certificates actively support the retailers who participate in this program. The reason is simple... They know that buying from a scrip participating retailer provides a steady source of revenue for their church, school, or non-profit organization.

If you have any questions regading the scrip program, please stop in during scrip hours and ask one of our volunteers.

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