The Crib Sheet | Page 4 | October 2001

## FUNdraising

Nancy Foreman - 972-862-1073
Peggy Epley -972-939-9402

Our fundraisers for the year were approved at the September General Meeting and are well underway. The CECPTA's support of parents with young children is made possible through the money we raise. We are currently selling Dallas Entertainment Passbooks for $30 each. The October 11 meeting will be your LAST CHANCE to get these. THANK YOU to everyone who has bought or sold passbooks. If you haven't already, please ask friends and relatives to buy one, or give one as a gift to a hard-to-buy-for person. You can pick them up at the October 11 general meeting, or contact Nancy Foreman if you need them sooner. The grocery coupons from either Tom Thumb or Kroger will save you $60.00, twice the cost of the book! ($120 if you swap with a friend). A passbook can save big bucks on family outings. For example, you could visit the zoo, go bowling, eat pizza, and top it off with ice cream using two-for-one coupons for each of these. Passbooks are available for many cities. There is a website ( www.entertainment.com) from which you can order and credit the CECPTA. You should have received a sample letter via our CECPTA announcements e-group that you can use to sell passbooks to friends and family you don't see often. E-mail Foreman@flash.net if you need a copy of that letter.

At our October 11th meeting, you will receive information about our Efficient Fundraising campaign. This one is so easy! Personalized e-mail invitations are sent to family and friends you choose. These offer a variety of items that can be purchased via the Internet. Orders are shipped directly to the customers with 40% of the proceeds going to the CECPTA. Printed order forms are available for non-computer users.

At each general meeting we have a vendor who sells great products and donates a door prize. Tickets are 3 for $1. Thank you to Tracy Coleson, our Country Peddler vendor, who generously donated a cast iron angel candleholder in September. Lee Trimble was the lucky winner! Judi Lunger will show Southern Living at Home products in October. In December, we will hold a raffle for a "Curl up with a Good Book" package. This includes a handmade children's quilt, matching pillow, and a "quilt theme" children's book. Raffle tickets are $5 each. The quilt will be displayed at upcoming meetings.

If you haven't already done so, or need another, please pick up Albertson's, Kroger, and Tom Thumb grocery cards at a general meeting. When you use these, a portion of the amount of your purchases is donated to the CECPTA.

There are two websites that donate a percentage of your purchases to our group at no extra cost when buy from any of over 300 popular online merchants through them. Please log on to www.schoolpop.com and www.schoolcash.com today, register as a member of the Carrollton Early Childhood PTA, and add them to your "favorites" list to use when you shop the web!

To keep things simple, you and/or your family can donate directly to the CECPTA and be "guilt free" for the year. A $65 check will cover your share! Larger and smaller donations are also welcome.

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