PTA raises funds to sponsor programs and events that enrich our students and enhance the quality of student life at Maimonides. Some are ongoing, such as the ones listed below, while others occur at specific times throughout the year. Be sure to read the weekly Kol Rambam and check out the PTA calendar for these fundraisers.

Rosh Chodesh Pizza | Supermarket Scrip | Stamped Receipt Program | Simcha Book Clubs | OneCause (Earn by Shopping Online) | Box Tops | FundingFactory (Recycle Phones and Cartridges)
 

Rosh Chodesh Pizza for Grades K-5
Celebrate Rosh Chodesh while supporting the PTA! The PTA will deliver pizza slices to your child(ren) nine times throughout the school year for a nominal fee. Advance sign-up is required for this popular Elementary School tradition. Download the 2009-2010 sign-up form, fill out and return to the Brener office with your payment by Friday, October 9, 2009.

Scrip Gift Card Program
PTA is selling Star Market/Shaw’s and Stop & Shop gift cards, which can be used like cash at the supermarkets. This is a great fundraiser for the PTA as the supermarkets donate 4% of the sales to the school. To order gift cards, please contact Frederique Smits at famsmitsweil@hotmail.com, or leave order forms and checks in one of the PTA mailboxes in the school offices.

Stamped Receipt Program
This is one of the PTA’s most popular fundraising tools. Merchants contribute up to 5 percent of the value of your total purchase to Maimonides PTA—all you have to do is get your receipt stamped for Maimonides at the participating store. Please support the PTA by taking part in this program, and ask your friends and extended family members to participate as well! Stamped receipts can be deposited in the PTA mailboxes located in the school offices on both campuses. See participating merchants below.

Simcha Book Clubs
Book Club Order Forms: Birthday | Bar/Bat Mitzvah | Graduation
Celebrate the milestones in our children's lives and strengthen Maimonides book collections at the same time by purchasing library books. For Grades K-6, you can donate a book to the library in honor of your child’s birthday; for Grades 6-8, you can donate a book in honor of your child’s or a classmate’s Bar/Bat Mitzvah; and for Grade 12 you can donate a book in honor of your child’s graduation or even in honor of the whole graduation class. A beautiful bookplate with the honoree’s name will be placed on the inside cover of the donated book to commemorate the milestone. Contact Sara Ravid, Librarian and Media Specialist, at sravid@maimonides.org for more information or to donate a book. You can also view Maimonides School's Amazon.com Wish List.

Earn by Shopping Online: Schoolpop/OneCause
Buying online? Simply register one time at OneCause.com (formerly Schoolpop.com; if you previously registered with Schoolpop, your same login information will work on OneCause). Then, each time before you visit your favorite online store, go to OneCause.com first—and Maimonides PTA will earn up to 18% of your total online purchase. Hundreds of familiar merchants participate in this virtual fundraising mall for education, such as Lands’ End, Office Depot, Gap, and Timberland. You can even install the OneCause Toolbar in your browser to help make sure every eligible purchase counts, which could result in up to five times the contributions!

Box Tops for Education
Save Your Box Tops and your Betty Crocker Points from General Mills products and send them into the PTA mailboxes located in the Saval or Brener Administrative Offices. PTA will earn 10 cents for every Box Top and Betty Crocker Points coupon redeemed. Your efforts really add up—PTA typically earns up to $500 a year from these coupons alone! Please ask friends and extended family members for their coupons also. Note that it is important to send in the entire coupon—please no trimming.

Recycle Your Printer Cartridges and Cell Phones
Help PTA earn free computer equipment for the school by bringing in items which would otherwise be thrown away. Simply gather your empty printer cartridges and used cell phones, and drop them in one of the three recycling receptacles at the school—FundingFactory will reimburse Maimonides for them. Receptacles are located in the Saval Administrative Office, in the Saval Elementary School wing by the Administrative Desk, and in the Brener Building in the downstairs lobby by the PTA case. Please don’t forget to gather up those used toner cartridges from your place of work and bring them in.