Each family is required to earn $62.50 in fundraising each quarter, beginning in September of each year. You may carry over excess fundraising to the next quarter but not to the following year. The opportunities we provide to earn fundraising include an annual swim-a-thon, scoreboard lane sponsorship, meet program advertising, donations, and our scrip program.
Following is a description of the scrip program.
An annual $15.00 per family administrative fee will be waived if you sign up for Escrip. If you were
signed up in 2003-04 you must renew once again. Go to www.escrip.com to do this.
In order to earn fundraising credit from Safeway scrip you need to have a Safeway club card (sign up at Safeway) and register your card with Escrip, linking it to Scottsdale Aquatic Club.
To do this, go to the internet and log onto to www.escrip.com.
Click on “sign up” and enter our group name (Scottsdale Aquatic Club) or our group # 11775617.
Fill in your personal information including your Safeway club card #.
Each time you shop and use your Safeway club card, your purchases will be automatically tracked and Safeway will make a monthly contribution to the team.
The contribution is as follows:
Purchases up to $300 monthly = 1% credit
Purchases $300 to $500 monthly = 2% credit
Purchases $500 and up monthly =3% credit
Additional Escrip Merchants:
Cocoa’s Restaurant(3%), Eddie Bauer(5%), Pick up Stix(5%), Payless Shoes(5%), Pep Boys(4%), Claim Jumper(5%), Orvis (10%) and Office Max(2%) are also part of the program. To receive credit for your purchases at these merchants you must register your charge or debit cards that you normally use at www.escrip.com.
Rewards Network for Hotels and Dining Escrip
For participating locations and to sign up for this program, visit www.escrip.rewardsnetwork.com.
You will need to register with your credit card. This is a separate registration process from Safeway scrip, so be sure to register with both programs if you want to receive fundraising credit for both.
Macy’s Escrip
If you have a Macy’s charge card you can go online and link it to Scottsdale Aquatic Club (group#11775617) and receive contributions as follows:
purchases up to $175 monthly = 2%
purchases of $176-$300 monthly = 4%
purchases above $300 monthly = 6%
*You can have other family members or friends sign up to support the team and you will receive credit for their contributions as well. Make sure you notify the office if you do recruit other supporters so that your account gets credit. Please note that Escrip takes a 15% administrative fee every month off your contribution total. In addition, it takes 60 days after the end of each month for Escrip to report your contribution to us so there will be a 2 month lag time in recording the credit to your fundraising account.
Another fundraising option is the purchase of grocery certificates in the office every weekday afternoon.
Fry’s: Gift cards in $100 denominations can be purchased. Make your check payable to SAC and use the gift card like a credit card. A total of 5% will be applied to your fundraising account for each $100 card purchased.
Basha’s (can also be used at AJ’s): paper gift certificates are available in denominations of $10, $20 and $50. Make your check payable to SAC and use the certificates like cash. These certificates also earn 5% for your fundraising.
If you want to make a large purchase of grocery scrip (over $600), it is helpful if you can let us know ahead of time so that we can have sufficient stock on hand.
Once each month (first Wed. of each month) you can submit an order for mail order scrip. An extensive list of retailers, restaurants, and entertainment merchants offer gift certificates. The merchant list & order forms are available on the office door. You can access a detailed list of merchants on the internet at www.glscrip.com. Fundraising credit varies from merchant to merchant. Turn in your order to the office with a check payable to SAC. Certificates available for pick up in the office approximately one week later.