Scrip is a term that means “substitute money.” When you purchase Scrip, you are purchasing gift certificates and prepaid cards that are used just like cash.  You can use scrip to purchase everyday expenses like food, clothing, and other essentials.  You can even pay your Kohl’s department store bill with scrip cards!!  With every purchase you earn revenue for St. Monica Home & School and your family.

 

St. Monica Home & School purchases 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.  We purchase the scrip and resell the certificates to you for face value.  The difference between what we pay and face value is our revenue.

 

60% of the profit of your total purchases will be set aside for you as a credit toward next year’s tuition and 40% will go to Home & School. For example, Pick’n Save offers a discount of 3%.  If you purchased Pick ’n Save scrip for one year ($500.00/month for 12 months = $6000.00 multiplied by 3%), the profit will be $180.00.  60% of that $180.00 (or, $108.00) will be given back to you in tuition credit for the following school year.  Consider the impact if you purchased Kohl’s to pay your monthly bill and a few gas cards, too!

Every Friday by 3:30 pm, complete an official order form in person or on line.  The forms are available on the St. Monica School website (www.st-monicaschool.org) or next to the official SCRIP drop off box in the school office.  There is also a drop box located outside the K4 classroom on the bulletin board.  Attach your check with the order.  Place the order in the scrip box in the school office. 

 

Orders will be available for distribution on the following Friday morning.  You have two delivery options:

Immediately check your order for accuracy. Call one of the coordinators right away if your child did not bring it home.

 

Per Archdiocese guidelines and insurance requirements, we must keep all of the Scrip cards and related software on site.  Therefore, no orders will be accepted at the homes of the scrip coordinators.

 

In order to maintain proper accounting, all scrip orders must be completed on an official order form.  (Scraps of paper and sticky notes become lost very easily.) Dedicated volunteers enter each person’s order into the scrip software program every week. They manually fill each order when the cards are received. Please help them be more efficient and accurate by following these guidelines.

 

Check the Great Lakes Scrip web site (glscrip.com) to see if it is available.  Simply write the retailer name, denomination and amount you need on the order form.

 

Scrip generated over $18,000.00 in profit.  More than $11,000.00 was given to families in tuition credits!