Our Lady's Academy Fundraisers

Got Books?

Please bring used books, DVDs, CDs, audio books and records to the "Got Books?" donation container, located outside the school by the Parish Office. More information available here.

Parish Support

Please use EFT to pay for weekly and monthly collections, and participate in in-parish tuition. Fill out the EFT Form and send it to the parish office.

Scrip Gift Cards

We've started a new fundraising program at Our Lady's that will help us purchase new computer equipment and other items we need within the school. The program is called “Scrip,” which means "substitute money," better known as gift certificates from national and local retailers. These are the same gift certificates that you buy at the store.

Scrip participating retailers agree to sell gift certificates to our organization at a discount. Member families like yours buy the certificates for full face value and they redeem them for full face value.

Here are the list of retailers in the Waltham area. Below this is a comprehensive list of retailers, nationwide. If you shop at any of these stores, please use a Scrip card and our school will receive a donation.

Aeropostle	AMC Theatres	American Eagle Outfitters	Banana Republic	Barnes & Noble	Bath & Body Works
Bed Bath & Beyond	Best Buy	Boston Market	Build-A-Bear Workshop	Champs Sports	Cheesecake Factory
Claire’s	Crate & Barrel	Crew Cuts	CVS Pharmacy	Dell Computer	Dunkin’ Donuts
EB Games	Eddie Bauer	Express	Finish Line	Foot Locker	Game Stop
Gap	GNC	Gymboree	Hallmark	Home Depot	J. Crew
J. Jill	JCPenney	Jo-Ann Fabrics	KFC	Kohl’s	L.L. Bean
Lands’ End	Legal Sea Foods	Lord & Taylor	Lowe’s	Macaroni Grill	Macy’s
Marshalls	Motherhood Maternity	Old Navy	Payless Shoes	Pottery Barn	Pottery Barn Kids
Radio Shack	Sears	Sephora	Spa Finder	Starbucks	Sunglass Hut
T.J. Maxx	Talbots	The Children’s Place	The Container Store	Toys ‘R Us	Uno's Chicago Grill
Walgreens	Wal-Mart	Williams-Sonoma

Click here for the link to the Scrip program. The school's code is 23B8CCLF18456.
Click here for general information on the Scrip program.

Click here for an alphabetical list of all participating retailers, nation-wide.

Click here for a list of retailers by category.

Box Tops for Education

Four Easy Steps To Earn Money For The PTO:
1. Cut Box Tops from a wide range of General Mills Products.
2. Send Box Tops in with your child or drop off at the School Office.
3. The Box Tops are then redeemed for money to benefit our school.

4. Turn the Box Tops by the second week of the month.

For more information on this program, go to http://www.boxtops4education.com/. Click to view a list of eligible products.

Campbells Labels For Education

Three Easy Steps To Earn Money For Our School:
1. Save Labels and beverage cups from eligible Campbell's Products.
2. Deposit the labels in the marked drop boxes just inside the main entrance of the school.
3. The Labels are then redeemed for money to benefit our school.

For a list of eligible products, go to http://www.labelsforeducation.com/Earn/participating-products.aspx.

UPromise

Please sign up for a Upromise account. Please link your account to our school so we can receive bonuses when you earn your savings for college.

Target Red Card

Visit http://www.target.com/tcoe or call 1-800-316-6142 to sign up and select Our Lady’s School. The school code is 8103.
When you use your Target REDCard (Target Credit Card, Target Debit Card or Target Visa Credit Card), Target will donate 1% of your purchases to our school.

Stop and Shop A+ School Rewards Program

If you shop at Stop and Shop, you can help our school earn Cash. To sign up, please go to www.stopandshop.com/aplus or call (877) 275-2758 to register your Stop and Shop discount card and associate it with our school. Our school code is Our Lady's Academy, code 06581. Your support will make a huge difference to our school. The program runs from October 7, 2011 through March 29, 2012.

Hannaford's Helps Schools Program

Do you shop at Hannaford? Have you received a "Hannaford Helps Schools Certificate"? If so, please drop them in the Our Lady's Academy slot as you exit the store. To assure our school gets credit for the certificate, please write "Our Lady's Academy, Waltham MA" on the back of the certificate. You may also send them into school. Just pop them in an envelope and mark it "Attention: PTO-Hannaford Helps." This program runs from Sept. 4 to Dec. 3 All certificates must be turned in to the store by Dec. 16, 2011. All proceeds will benefit the Our Lady's PTO. Please tell your family and friends who shop at Hannaford about this program! For more details go to: http://www.hannaford.com/content.jsp?pageName=HHS&leftNavArea=AboutLeftNav#ideas

Pies for Our Lady's Academy

Our Lady's Academy is partnering with Wilson Farms for a Pie Fundraiser just in time for Thanksgiving. Each family can ask their families and friends to order pie. Part of the money for each pie sold is donated to Our Lady's. Please see the attached flyer and order form for more information. Pie order forms are due by Thursday, November 10 and will be delivered on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 from 2-5 pm.

My Coke Rewards

You can donate My Coke Rewards points to Our Lady's and help us get things like athletic equipment, classroom supplies, learning aids and more. Register at www.mycokerewards.com/schools.
Three Easy Steps To Earn Money For Our School:
1. Enter codes from your favorite participating My Coke Rewards products. (Codes found inside bottle tops, or printed inside the tear off flap of a 12 pack.)

2. Select Our Lady's Academy from a list of eligible K-12 schools.

3. Donate points to help your students get rewards.

Mamasource by Mamapedia

Do you shop online? If so, http://www.mamasource.com/ is a daily deal site you won't want to miss! Sign up for free to receive daily deals, then click on Savings for Schools and select "Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted School". Whenever you purchase a daily deal, Mamasource will set aside 5% of the purchase price for OLA.
Schools can use the money anyway they want – for books, classroom supplies, field trips, reading programs – anything that can use extra funding. Checks will be mailed out once each year when the threshold reaches a minimum of $75. Any funds under that amount will automatically carry over into the next school year.

Recycling Bottles and Cans

If you have been holding on to your bottles and cans, you can drop them off at the Waltham Recycling Center located at 200 Trapelo Road. The hours of operation are: M-F 9-4pm and Sat 8:30-3:30pm.
When dropping off your recyclables, be sure to separate glass items in a box for safety and state you are making a donation for Our Lady’s Academy.
Please note: The center is moving Nov. 1 to Lexington St., near the Police Station.