This year we will be doing a new program called the Scrip Program. Basically it is selling gift cards to hundreds of different stores, grocery stores, clothing stores, etc. Places that everyone shops all the time. A Diver will receive 100% of the percentage that receive on the gift cards that that sell. (Example: Macys you can sell $25 and $100 gift cards and you will receive 10% of the cost of the card into a drivers scrip account to use towards diving costs) There is shipping costs. I have been told that $2 per total gift card order/per person (meaning that if a person buys $100 Acme, $100 Stop n Shop, $25 Macys, and $25 WAWA, $100 Shell Gas, and $25 Dicks you would charge them $2 shipping) Anyone who leaves team for any reason, forfeits to the general budget, all monies in their scrip account.
Scrip is a term that means “substitute money”. When you purchase scrip, you’re purchasing negotiable 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, and with every purchase, you earn revenue for our organization.
How scrip generates revenue for you?
The Great Lakes Scrip Center acts on behalf of churches, schools and other non-profit organizations to purchase large amounts of 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. Our organization buys the scrip from Great Lakes Scrip Center at a discount, and re-sells the certificates to families like yours for full face value. The discount - from two to fifteen percent or more – is our organization’s revenue.
Scrip is "shopping cart fundraising”
Scrip is a popular fundraiser because families don’t have to sell anything. Organization members produce revenue by making regular household purchases they would make anyway. Groceries, clothing, toys, gifts, even gasoline can be purchased with scrip.
