Gwen Berry
These have got to be the easiest fund-raising activities ever! To make money for the High Prairie Community Council, all you have to do is go shopping as usual.
Fred Meyer Community Rewards
Fred Meyer has a new game for deciding where their donation dollars will go. They’re letting the customers tell them. Here’s how it works: the more of us who link to HPCC on the Fred Meyer website and use our Rewards Card when shopping at Freddy’s, the higher the donation will be. It’s like voting for the HPCC every time you shop. Each quarter they’ll make $650,000 in donations to lucky non-profits based on how much their linked shoppers spent.
How to Do It:
- Go to www.fredmeyer.com/topic/community-rewards-4
- Under “Are You a Fred Meyer Customer?” click on “Link your Rewards Card Now”.
- Sign into your Fred Meyer online account (or register for one).
- It will ask you to enter your organization’s number or at least 3 letters of the name.
- Type in “High Pr” or “84731” (High Prairie is misspelled in their list, so don’t put in the whole name or it won’t find it. With “High Pr” we come up 3rd on the list.)
- Click on the circle next to High Prarie (sic) in the list.
- Click on Enroll (orange button at bottom of list).
- After that, every time you go shopping at Fred Meyer, make sure the checker scans your Rewards Card. Voilà! Your vote for HPCC has been counted.
AmazonSmile
Amazingly, there’s an even easier way to funnel corporate donations to the High Prairie Community Council—a program called “AmazonSmile.” All you do is start your Amazon shopping at a slightly different website: www.smile.amazon.com. The first time you go there, you tell them to send their donations to HPCC, and after that it’s shopping as usual. Amazon will donate .5% of the price of all your eligible purchases to the HPCC. That’s 50¢ for every $100 you spend. If 50 High Prairians spend $100 each—not difficult to do at Amazon!—HPCC will get an easy $25.
How to Do It:
- Go to www.smile.amazon.com
- Log into your regular Amazon account (or register for one)
- Choose High Prairie Community Council from their list of charitable organizations
- Bookmark the www.smile.amazon.com website in your browser
- Every time you shop at Amazon, start at the new website, www.smile.amazon.com.
Easy-peasy.