Even if you are not a parent you can still still help the local schoolchildren with your grocery store purchases - without spending any extra money yourself.
Schoolpop - if you buy purchases from online merchants using schoolpop as a gateway, the school gets a significant portion of the profits. Major online stores are included - Discovery Store, LL Bean, etc. etc. Please see the entry points for the individual local schools below.
Boxtops offers another online shopping gateway, and the percentage that goes to your school is quite explicit. Some of these can be significant, for example 5% at Target. The program is limited to K-8 schools. escrip also has an online gateway. If you registered your Safeway card you are already registered there.
Some actual box tops are also worth 10 cents each to neighborhood schools that participate in that program. These are mostly from cereal and baking items (pdf list).
Office Depot has its own 5% program, but you must inform the cashier at every check-out and it works only if you are purchasing certain school supplies.
Safeway (escrip) ID numbers for local schools (some just over the border from Takoma Park)
6658217 John Nevins Andrews School 117 Elm Ave Takoma Park MD 20912
6552798 Piney Branch Elementary School 7510 Maple Ave Takoma Park MD 20912
6559057 Rolling Terrace Elementary School 705 Bayfield St Takoma Park MD 20912
6630575 Sligo Adventist School 8300 Carroll Ave Takoma Park MD 20912
6576175 Takoma Academy 8120 Carroll Avenue Takoma Park MD 20912
6576179 Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School 8204 Flower Avenue Takoma Park MD 20912
6576177 Takoma Park Elementary School 7511 Holly Avenue Takoma Park MD 20912
6583713 Washington-Mclaughlin School 6500 Poplar Ave Takoma Park MD 20912
6539098 Montgomery Blair High School 51 University Blvd East Silver Spring MD 20901
6599069 Takoma Park Middle School
Schoolpop gateways:
John Nevis Andrews Elementary School | Takoma Park | 0152094 |
Montgomery Blair High School | Silver Spring | 0119993 |
Our Lady Of Sorrows School | Takoma Park | 0152105 |
Piney Branch Elementary School | Takoma Park | 0120069 |
Rolling Terrace Elementary School | Silver Spring | 0120073 |
Rolling Terrace Elementary School | Silver Spring | 0628408 |
Sligo Adventist School | Silver Spring | 0152106 |
Takoma Academy | Silver Spring | 0152107 |
Takoma Park Child Development Center | Takoma Park | 0624275 |
Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School | Takoma Park | 0636499 |
Takoma Park Elementary School | Takoma Park | 0120066 |
TPES PTA | Takoma Park | 0623551 |
Takoma Park Nursery School | Takoma Park | 0120071 |
Takoma Park Middle School | Takoma Park | 0119859 |
And if you are a parent with a child in the TP schools, public or private, you can help us by carrying back school library books that have been returned here by mistake.
Posted by library at November 28, 2005 12:06 PM