Kroger Earning Plus Learning

Kroger's Earning Plus Learning program is a great way to support East Side when you shop for groceries.   To begin earning funds for East Side, please link to the Kroger site http://www.krogerearningpluslearning.com/pdf/10000090496.pdf and follow the directions provided.   You must re-register each year in the Kroger Earning Plus Learning program, so remember to use your Kroger scan sheet (obtained through above link) to re-link your Kroger Plus card at the start of each school year.   You must re-register if the last time you registered was before August 1, 2007.   Once you register, every time you use your "Kroger Plus" card, Kroger will contribute 4% of your eligible purchases toward the fund. If you do not have a "Kroger Plus" card, you may enroll for one at any Kroger Customer Service desk.   Visit http://www.krogerearningpluslearning.com/ for more information.

Publix Partners Card

Each time you shop at Publix and have the cashier scan your Publix Partners Card at checkout; a percentage of your total grocery bill will automatically be credited to East Side's account.   If you need additional Publix cards, they are available at the volunteer desk in the front lobby.   Cards can be used by anyone – relatives, friends and neighbors!   The cards do not expire, but if you are new to East Side, be sure to get a card with East Side's account number on the back so we can get the credit we deserve!

Target Take Charge of Education

Target will donate an amount equal to one percent (1%) of purchases made with your Target Visa Credit Card, Target Credit Card, Target Check Card or Target Business Card at any Target store or Target.com.   Target will donate one-half percent (1/2%) of your Target Visa Credit Card purchases made everywhere else Visa credit cards are accepted. You can designate the East Side Foundation by calling 1-800-316-6142 or by visiting www.target.com/tcoe/ .   Applications are available at any Target store or online at www.target.com/tcoe/ .   Let your family and friends know, too. Anyone in the country who shops with a Target Visa Credit Card, Target Credit Card, Target Check Card or Target Business Card can designate East Side Foundation as their Target School Fundraising Beneficiary.

Washington Mutual WaMoola Program

The WaMoola for Schools program is a program in which enrolled customers can support their local schools every time they make a purchase with their Washington Mutual Debit MasterCard ® . If you are a Washington Mutual customer, you can sign up to have your WaMu Debit Card purchases benefit East Side. You can designate East Side during the enrollment process in person at a financial center.

General Mills' Box Top$ for Education

When you use any General Mills products –- cereals, frozen foods, meals, snacks, you name it –- just clip the official Box Tops for Education coupons and turn them in at the collection bin in the front lobby or put them in the PTA Mailbox.   Each Box Tops coupon is worth 10 cents to our school.   Our school could earn up to $20,000 per year just by clipping Box Tops.   The average household purchases more than 100 Box Tops products each year, which could add up to over $9,000 in earnings for our school, just from clipping.   We can also earn money through the Box Tops Marketplace and the Box Tops Book Club.

Visit www.boxtops4education.com to learn more how you can contribute to East Side just by purchasing everyday grocery and household products.   Participating vendors include: General Mills®, Pillsbury®, Yoplait®, Betty Crocker®, Gold Medal®, Totino's®, Nature Valley®, Pop Secret®, most Fruit Snacks, Hamburger/Tuna/Chicken Helper®, Old El Paso®, and Ziploc®, just to name a few.

The Box Tops for Education Program has provided over $200,000,000 to schools like ours since 1996.   East Side earned $127 from the Box Tops program during the 2006-2007 school year.   However, we are aiming much higher this year -- o ur goal for 2007-2008 is $1,000 .   We are well on our way to reaching that goal – we have already earned $588 and we are only one month into the school year!   Please keep up the good work and help us exceed our goal by clipping Box Tops from your favorite grocery and household supplies.   When everyone's shopping and clipping, the Box Tops add up fast! You can drop off your clipped Box Tops in the marked collection box in the Front Lobby of the school.   Happy clipping!

Campbell's Labels for Education

Labels for Education gives schools free educational equipment in exchange for UPC's and lids from products in the Campbell family of brands. It's easy to do – just collect UPC's and lids from eligible Campbell's Products and then turn them in at the collection bin in the front lobby or put them in the PTA Mailbox.   Remember, only the UPC code is needed, not the entire label.

Some of the products eligible for label redemption in the program include:   Campbell's® soups; Campbell's Supper Bakes® meal kits; Campbell's® or Franco-American® SpaghettiOs® pasta; Campbell's® beans, gravies and canned pasta; Prego® pasta sauces; Swanson® broths and canned poultry; Pace® salsa and picante sauces; V8® vegetable juices and V8 Splash® juice drinks; Campbell's® tomato juice; Pepperidge Farm® breads, cookies, crackers, and frozen products; Pepperidge Farm® Goldfish® crackers; and Campbell's® Foodservice products.   Triple your efforts by asking your friends and family to collect labels on behalf of our school.   Together with Campbell's Labels for Education — we can build a better school for our children — one label at a time.   Please visit www.labelsforeducation.com for more information.

Nestle Pure Life Go Play!

Go Play! is a rewards program that helps schools earn points that can be redeemed toward fitness and sports gear, or transportation costs assistance toward hands-on educational field trips, just for collecting labels from bottles of Nestlé Pure Life bottled water products.   Each label is worth 2 Go Play! points and each school has the opportunity to earn up to 1,000,000 Go Play! points.   Complete labels from individual bottles of any Nestlé® Pure Life® product (such as Nestlé® Pure Life® Purified Water, Nestlé® Pure Life® Natural Fruit Flavored Water Beverages, and Nestlé® Pure Life® Green Tea Refreshers) are eligible.   Only individual bottle labels are eligible, not the outer wrappers from multi-packs.   East Side will be collecting labels until May 31, 2008, so the next time you're out shopping, choose any Nestlé® Pure Life® products and you'll be helping East Side and the community.   To learn more about this program, visit www.goplaylabels.com .

Home Team School Rewards

Fast Fixin' wants to help ensure a brighter future for all of America's children. Home Team School Rewards makes fundraising for schools and youth groups safe and pain-free. No selling or heavy lifting involved.   No catalogs to pick from or points to track.   It's logos for dollars!   Just cold, hard cash for collecting Home Team logos from Fast Fixin' packages.   That's right, real money!   Home Team School Rewards logos from Fast Fixin' packages are worth 30 cents each.   The Home Team School Rewards logo can be found on the back of select Fast Fixin' and Fast Classics products sold in supermarkets, Sam's Club and Costco stores nationwide.   For more information, visit http://www.fastfixin.com/home_team.php?section=5&catid=5 .

Tyson Foods Project A+

Does anyone in your family eat Tyson chicken nuggets?   Of course they do!   When you clip and save labels from Tyson chicken nuggets and other products that feature the Project A+ logo, East Side can redeem them for cash from Tyson.   In your grocer's freezer section, look for Tyson products that display the Project A+ logo. You may also visit the products page on Tyson's website that lists exactly which items are participating.

Each Tyson Project A+ label has a value of 24¢ when redeemed.   Tyson Foods imposes no restrictions on the use of Project A+ funds. A school may use its earned funds for supplies, equipment, special events, pizza parties, or however it wants.   For more information, visit http://www.tyson.com/projectaplus/ .

Prang Power

All Prang, Dixon and Ticonderoga art and school supplies earn Prang Power Points. Clip the UPC code to earn Prang Power Points.   You can place these UPCs in the Box Tops or Campbell's collection bins in the Front Lobby.   Each Prang, Dixon and Ticonderoga product has a point value of approximately one point per dollar, based on its manufacturers suggested retail price.   With enough Prang Power Points, we can order FREE art and school supplies.   For more information, visit http://www.prangpower.com .

Pike Nursery Greenback Program

Help us receive free landscaping materials for our school campus by “recycling” your Pike's receipts.   Pike Family Nursery donates a percentage of the cash value of the receipts back to East Side in the form of plants, flowers, shrubs, trees, gardening materials, and tools.

When you shop at Pike Family Nurseries, please send your original receipts to school and deposit them in the PTA mailbox in an envelope marked “Pike's.”   Remember to ask gardening friends and neighbors to save their receipts, too.   What an easy way to improve our school's landscaping efforts!   This program allows all of us to help keep East Side beautiful.

Office Depot 5% Back to Schools Program

Every time schools, teachers, students, parents and school supporters give East Side's 5% Back to Schools Program ID number (ID # 70026196) when buying school supplies at Office Depot, we will receive credits equal to 5% of the qualifying purchases to use for free supplies. They should have our ID number at the registers so don't worry if you forget the number.   Generally, basic student school supplies are qualifying purchases.   For example notebook paper, pens/pencils, note pads, binders and much more.   Products that do not qualify are computers, all technology items (including personal digital assistants/PDAs), TVs, all furniture and furniture accessories, some bulk-packaged products (cases of copy paper), ink and toner cartridges, and Office Depot Gift Cards.

Office Depot Exclusive National PTA Recycling Program

Help East Side and the environment with the Office Depot Exclusive National PTA Recycling Program!   We can earn money simply by collecting ink jet and toner cartridges.   Office Depot will pay $2 per usable cartridge to East Side quarterly in the form of an Office Depot® Gift Card.   Please collect your empty ink jet and toner cartridges and deposit them in the school collection boxes (look for them coming soon).   Students, teachers and friends of East Side can also help by collecting any brand of cartridge.   Four reasons to recycle:   (1) If you placed one year's discarded cartridges, end to end, it would stretch 2500 miles; (2) The plastic in a typical toner cartridge needs 1,000 years to decompose; (3) Remanufacturing recycled cartridges requires 80% less energy than manufacturing new plastic; and (4) YOU CAN EARN MONEY FOR EAST SIDE!   Visit http://www.officedepot.com:80/promo.do?file=/promo/pages/pta.jsp for more information.

Staples Recycle for Education

Recycling is a good thing and so is raising money for East Side.   With the Staples Recycle for Education program, you can take care of both. And it's completely FREE!   Staples will donate $3 to East Side for every eligible ink or laser toner cartridge we collect. That's money we can use for anything, including:   School programming, improvements, or whatever the school needs!   Please collect your empty ink jet and toner cartridges and deposit them in the school collection boxes (look for them coming soon).   Visit http://www.staplesrecyclefored.com/ for more information.

Schoolpop.com

Schoolpop has created an on-line shopping mall for East Side Elementary School with 750+ retailers participating.   Just go to www.schoolpop.com, register at no cost, and select East Side Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia (ID# 123113). Then begin shopping! Every purchase made through Schoolpop will benefit East Side – at no additional cost to you or to East Side! Once East Side is designated and a purchase is made, the participating retailer will automatically rebate our school up to 20% of the total purchase price, excluding taxes and shipping. You can also be assured that any information you give to Schoolpop will remain secure. They do not sell or release any mailing lists – even to the other schools they serve.

This program is particularly great for online shoppers during the holidays.   Just log on to www.schoolpop.com and click on “register now”. You will be asked for your name, email address, password, and the organization you wish to benefit – East Side Elementary School. Bookmark the site and each time you shop online, go to www.schoolpop.com and begin shopping. A percentage of every dollar spent is rebated to East Side – all at no cost to you!   This program does not affect the prices you pay. You're shopping anyway, why not let East Side benefit?

For more information, registration, and a complete list of Schoolpop's participating store, catalog, and online merchants, visit www.schoolpop.com .   And, please remember to ask your friends and family to register and shop with Schoolpop. The more people we have supporting us, the more we're able to earn!

eScrip.com

eScrip is a hassle-free way for schools and groups that support children's programs to raise funds through everyday purchases made at eScrip merchants.   eScrip and merchant partners have created a system that rewards customer loyalty by contributing a percentage of purchases to your chosen group.   Parents, teachers, friends and families are encouraged to register their credit, debit and grocery club cards as supporters with the eScrip program.   Upon receipt of registration, a percentage of all purchases made at eScrip merchants will be given back to the designated school or group.   Just log onto www.eScrip.com .   Enter the East Side's ID # 6498424.   Register your debit, credit, and grocery cards.   Shop at eScrip merchants!   Use your eScrip registered cards for all your purchases.   A percentage of your purchases will be automatically contributed by the merchant.   That's it! It's that easy----your family shops and East Side earns dollars.

eScrip uses card numbers and purchase activity solely to process the contributions generated by the purchases. The card numbers are kept confidential by eScrip and are disclosed only to the participating merchants to calculate rebates.   eScrip is a VeriSign Secure Site. All information sent to this site is encrypted, protecting against disclosure to third parties.

Click & Give

Do some holiday shopping and raise money for East Side!   When you log onto www.give.useyourphoto.com to create high-quality photo products such as calendars, greeting cards, and banners, useyourphoto.com will give 10 to 20% of the proceeds to East Side.   It's fun.   It's free.   It's really easy (and really fun).   To participate, simply:   (1) CLICK a photo; (2) UPLOAD it to www.give.useyourphoto.com ; (3) CREATE custom photo products and/or order prints; and (4) GIVE 10 to 20% of your total purchase price to East Side at no additional cost to your or the school.

Goodsearch.com - Why wouldn't you do it?

What if East Side earned a penny every time you searched the Internet or shopped online?   Well, now we can!   GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate.   You use it just as you would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results.   Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter East Side as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!   A related site, www.GoodShop.com is an online shopping mall of world-class merchants dedicated to helping fund worthy causes across the country. Each purchase made via the GoodShop mall results in a donation to your designated charity or school (hopefully East Side) – averaging approximately 3% of the sale, but going up to 20% or even more.   Since it doesn't cost anything and you get proven search results, there's no reason not to use it!