District NEWS
August 16, 2012
Schools receive cash or free equipment from Target, Price Chopper & Hannaford
New & ongoing corporate promotions benefit BH-BL
Anyone with a Facebook page can use a new "Give with Target"
program to make a donation to any of the five Burnt
Hills-Ballston Lake schools at no cost to themselves.
Target's is just the latest in a number of corporate promotions
that benefit our school district annually. While some parents
and grandparents have been cutting off and saving their soup
labels and cereal box tops for many years, today's corporate
donation efforts are often linked to the internet, making
participation easy for both the school and the shopper.
"Schools are under intense pressure to reduce the funding we get
from taxes, so one area the BH-BL Board of Education wants to
explore is more ways to tap into financial support from
corporations," says BH-BL superintendent Patrick McGrath. "The
school district is not promoting any particular store. But if
anyone -- parents, staff, residents or their family members --
already patronizes a certain store, these programs can provide a
way for them to donate to the school district at no cost to
themselves."
Below are links to more detailed information
on how you can participate.
Target donating $2.5 million in gift cards to schools through "Give with Target ®"
Individual schools are eligible to receive up to $10,000 each
in gift cards from Target based on the number of electronic
"votes" they receive via Facebook between now and September 8.
For each 25 votes, the school will receive a $25 Target gift
card. This promotion is open to anyone with a Facebook page. You
do NOT need to go to an actual Target store to participate, but
you do need to have a Facebook account.
How to
participate: Go to
https://givewith.target.com/ and look for the red "Find a
school" bar. Type in a zip code and click on the school you want
to vote for.
(Note: Pashley Elementary is listed under
zip code 12302. You will find Charlton Heights Elementary,
Francis Stevens Elementary and the BH-BL High School under zip
code 12019, and the Richard O'Rourke Middle School under zip
code 12027.)
You can only vote once a week, and the
program says it will send you an email when you are eligible to
vote again.
BH-BL schools get free equipment annually through Price Chopper's "Tools for Schools"
Maybe you are a Price Chopper shopper who signed up for Tools
for Schools years ago, but is your account still current??
Shopper can specify which school they want their Tools for
Schools points to go to. Points are accrued based on how much
you buy using your Price Chopper AdvantEdge card, and some
purchases earn double points. Schools will receive a catalogue
showing the free equipment that they can order using the points
that were accumulated for them between July 29, 2012 and March
30, 2013.
How to participate: Go to
http://www.pricechopper.com/savings/tools-for-schools to
sign up, or check or change the school your points will go to.
You will need to provide the ID number on the back of your
AdvantageEdge card.
Each school has a 5-digit code
number. Four of the BH-BL schools are listed under Saratoga
County, as follows:
Charlton Heights Elementary # 15697
Francis L Stevens Elementary # 15698
Pashley
Elementary # 15975
BH-BL High School # 15716
The
Richard O'Rourke Middle School is listed under Schenectady
County with code # 15715.
Hannaford shoppers help schools, too, through "Hannaford Helps"
In 2011, Hannaford stores donated $780,000 to 2,800 K-12
schools across New York and New England through their "Hannaford
Helps Schools" program.
Details on the 2012 Hannaford
Helps program are not yet available, but will be posted here on
the Hannaford website when they are available.
In the
past, Hannaford shoppers who purchased items on a lengthy list
of specific products could earn cash for the school of their
choice, money that was greatly appreciated by the BH-BL Schools.
Anyone with questions about any of these promotions should
check the store's website or contact the store in question.
