To support all of the programs and capital improvements the PTA provides, the Santa Rita PTA raises and spends an average of $200,000 per year.  The Read-A-Thon, our Direct Ask donation campaign, Witches’ Delight, and Annual Auction Event are our top tier fundraisers.  Second tier fundraisers are Hot Lunch and Book Fair.  Amazon, Target, eScrip, Box tops for Education, One Cause, Kepler's, and Office Depot are indirect fundraising sources that benefit Santa Rita throughout the year.

Following is a brief description of our fundraisers.

• Direct Donation
• Readathon
• Witches Delight
• Auction Party
• Hot Lunch
• Book Fair
• eScrip
• Amazon
• Kepler's
• Target
• Office Depot
• Boxtop 4 Education

Direct Ask Donation

At the beginning of each school year, we send a letter home to each Santa Rita family asking for support of our Direct Ask donation campaign. We'd like to have 100% of our families participate. We have asked each family to give $300.00 per child or as much as you are able. We need and appreciate your support. All donations benefit our children. Donate Now.

Witches’ Delight Carnival 

Witches’ Delight is a carnival held at school the last Friday before Halloween and the whole community is invited. There are carnival booths, a cakewalk, a costume contest, cookie decorating, and lots of other opportunities for some spooky fun. Money is raised through ticket and food sales. 

Hot Lunch

Hot lunch is a service provided by the PTA to make available nutritious, high quality food that is seasonally appropriate at a reasonable price.  Our hot lunch program is provided by a single vendor, which provides and delivers hot and cold lunches temperature safe and kid friendly.

Book Fair

Every year the Santa Rita PTA hosts a Book Fair which is open for a week and staffed by volunteer parents. It is a very popular event at Santa Rita. There is a wonderful selection of books for all ages, a wide variety of gifts and other merchandise. Our school keeps a percentage of the proceeds and all the money raised at the Book Fair is used to support the library and classroom literature books.

eScrip

eScrip is the easiest way to raise funds for Santa Rita. With eScrip, Santa Rita automatically receives cash donations each time you use your eScrip registered loyalty, credit, or debit card at participating eScrip merchants such as Safeway, Draegers, Mollie Stones, Piazza Fine Foods, and Sierra Trading Post.  Note: starting November 1, 2013, Safeway will no longer donate for purchases made with credit cards (please use cash, checks, debit cards, or gift cards instead).  Registration and participation cost you nothing, so invest the less than five minutes in takes to register today.

eScrip is run by ESI (Electronic Scrip Inc.) a California based corporation dedicated to establishing relationships between commerce and community to provide resources to organizations that support children. To sign up for escrip, go to http://www.escrip.com. Our account number is: 135936592, which is for Santa Rita School PTA. If you need to newly register for a Safeway club card, or find an existing Safeway card club number, call 1-877-723-3929 ext. 3.

Amazon

Install a Browser Extension and ensure Santa Rita always gets credit!  The following extensions can be configured to automatically add Santa Rita's affiliate code to any Amazon link, so that Santa Rita will get credit even if you forget to use the link above.  Find the extension for your browser below, and when configuring it, be sure to replace the default with our affiliate code:  sanritsch-20

Chrome:  http://amaflink.blogspot.com/
Safari:  http://blog.lexfriedman.com/post/898012759/affiliatizer-safari-extension-earn-money-people
FireFox: TBD

Kepler's Books

Click on the Kepler's Books link above to start your on-line shopping.  Kepler's will donate 6% of every online purchase to Santa Rita.

Target

Target Is offering 1% of purchases to Santa Rita as part of their Take Charge of Education program. You shop, and Santa Rita benefits.  It's that simple.  And your REDcardS makes it possible.  Here's how to participate:

• Apply and get approved for a REDcard;
• Enroll in Take Charge of Education; and
• Choose Santa Rita School.

With less than 5% of our families currently participating we have earned over $4,000 from this program.  Start shopping with your REDcard, visit a Target Store or www.target.com

Office Depot

Santa Rita will earn credits equal to 5% of your qualifying school supply purchases* to use for FREE supplies. You can credit the school year round! Every time you shop at Office Depot, remember to ask them to credit Santa Rita when you are paying. Or shop at www.officedepot.com and use Santa Rita as our school number.

Boxtops 4 Education

Clip box tops from hundreds of participating brands to earn cash for Santa Rita. Go to http://www.boxtops4education.com/ for more information and a complete list of participating products.