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What is the SCRIP
Program?
SCRIP at Sacred
Heart School is a Tuition Discounting Program. It
is a volunteer-run program in which families
purchase gift cards/certificates through Sacred
Heart to shop at major grocery stores, retail stores
and restaurants. SHTDA purchases these gift
cards/certificates through a distributor at a
discount. They are then sold to participating
families at face value. At the end of the program’s
fiscal year, your account will receive a credit of
a percentage of your total purchases and have it
applied to the following year’s tuition.
Which
stores participate?
There are many local
stores and restaurants that participate. Please
refer the
Order Form or
Retailers List
for a current list of participants. Or, visit
our webpage at
http://www.shgschool.org/scrip.asp
How do I
purchase SCRIP?
During the school
year, SCRIP participants need to complete an
Order
Form that can be turned in with your check to
Room 105 between the 4:00 and 6:00PM Masses on
Saturdays; after the 7:30, 9:00, or 10:30AM Masses
on Sundays; or sent in to school with your child on
Monday mornings by 9:00AM. SHTDA’s
monthly
Newsletter will post the schedule and any changes
thereto. A summer schedule will be posted in the
June Newsletter. You may pay for your
SCRIP order with a check made payable to “S.H.T.D.A.”
or cash. Credit cards are NOT accepted. If you
use cash, please have the exact amount as we do not
keep cash on hand to make change. SCRIP orders will
be available through school by the end of the
following week. If you would like to pick up your
order after the available weekend Masses, please
indicate the same on the outside of your SCRIP
envelope.
Are
there restrictions on what can be purchased with the
certificates?
Some. Most
retailers’ gift cards/certificates are the same as
cash; you can buy anything in the store that you
would normally buy with a check, cash or credit
card. However, there are some retailers have
certain circumstances and they are indicated with a
double asterisk (**) by their name on the
Retailers
List
(which is updated monthly).
What are
the benefits of the program to Sacred Heart?
Sacred Heart itself
does not benefit from the SCRIP program. Any profit
the program does make is used for its operation
expenses and/or the General Tuition Assistance
Fund. The SHDTA has been successfully running the
SCRIP program for over 5 years now, and many
families have benefited. With some extra planning
and getting others to participate under their
account, some families have earned as much as $1,400
credited to their tuition! Families who participate
in SCRIP can encourage grandparents, aunts and
uncles, neighbors and friends to purchase gift
cards/certificates through their SCRIP account.
Sacred Heart also maintains an account for families
needing tuition assistance to which Sacred Heart
parishioners and/or school families can designate
the SCRIP credits if they do not have children
enrolled at Sacred Heart School.
Who can
participate?
Registration for
SCRIP is open to parents, grandparents, school
association members and anyone in the Sacred Heart
Church community who wishes to participate and
designate the tuition account of a presently
enrolled family or to the General Tuition Assistance
Fund.
Who will
run the program?
Under
the leadership of the SCRIP Coordinator and the
SCRIP Board, a team of volunteers will help make the
SCRIP program work for all of us. The program
will demand lots of volunteer involvement in
selling/collecting orders, processing orders, and
distributing the orders.
What if
my child/children do not return to Sacred Heart, and
I don’t use my SCRIP credit – what can I do with it?
There are 2 options
if you are not using your SCRIP credit. You can
give your credit to another participating SCRIP
family to use toward their tuition, or you can
donate your credit to the General Tuition Assistance
Fund. Unused SCRIP credits will not be refunded to
the Sacred Heart family.
Find Out More
If you have further
questions, please contact Sacred Heart’s SCRIP
Coordinator by e-mail at
scrip@shgparish.org, or call (410)
429-4445.
Then, put your shopping dollars to work for you!
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