Real Scrip Users Explain The Power Of Scrip Fundraising.

Stop Selling, Start Buying

Stop selling, start earning. When your non-profit organization takes advantage of scrip, your families earn money just by making their regular household purchases. But instead of paying with cash or credit, they use prepaid gift cards from America’s favorite and most trusted retailers.

It’s fundraising while you shop, and you won’t have to ask anyone to sell anything ever again. Scrip fundraising gift cards are the same gift cards you would normally purchase from a retailer in your local retail stores, and they work the same way. And with over 500 of the country’s biggest brands, Great Lakes Scrip Center has something to appeal to every family in your organization. You’ll find cards you can use at grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants, movie theaters, home improvement stores, and almost any business that accepts gift cards. Virtually anywhere you shop will accept some form of Scrip.

How Scrip Works

When people hear about scrip, many ask, “what’s the catch?” The catch – if there is one – is that families need to plan ahead a little and do their normal shopping with gift cards.

Once your organization completes the simple enrollment process, just tell us the name of your program coordinator. That person becomes a liaison between your organization, your families, and GLSC. They collect family orders and combine them into a single organization order. The coordinator places their order with GLSC, and it is filled and shipped back to you for distribution to your families. With Great Lakes Scrip Center’s free online scrip management software tools, the process is easier than ever for both coordinators and families. Your Great Lakes Scrip Center gift card order makes its way to your non-profit organization once payment is received. You can pay by check, but most of our customers choose the convenience and speed of electronic fund transfer, a service provided by the Automated Clearing House, a trusted nationwide network of banks, financial institutions, businesses and millions of customers. When you authorize an ACH payment, the exact amount of your order is taken from your bank account on the day your order is placed.

Ordering online through Scrip couldn’t be easier. You can even use our free optional ShopWithScrip.com service to let your families order themselves. And you keep full control of your scrip program - ShopWithScrip also gives you full reporting, based on the date ranges you choose. You can select sales and earnings history for individual families or for your entire non-profit organization. And all reports can be exported to a text file or spreadsheet for easy customization.

It Adds Up Fast

When you multiply that by the number of families in your organization, scrip can quickly become your organization’s biggest and most powerful fundraiser. For those families that hate selling, it’s painless! The earning potential for scrip fundraising is limitless. It all depends on the number of families you have signed up, and how enthusiastically they use the scrip fundraising concept. For example, an organization of 150 families easily spends between one and two million dollars per year on food, clothing and other essentials. If these families use scrip for these purchases, they can raise as much as $40,000 to $80,000 per year for their organization, without spending any more than they normally would.

Organizations can even decide whether the money earned goes directly to a general fund, a special savings fund, or even the families themselves. This could be used for tuition, special trips, or other expenditures related to the organization.

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