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Family Requirements

Each family is required to participate in fundraising programs to ensure success in attaining Nativity’s fundraising goals.

Fundraising Obligation

One of our goals at Nativity Catholic School is to maintain a low cost tuition for our students without jeopardizing the quality of the education it provides to its students. We are able to accomplish this, in part, by holding various fundraisers throughout the school year. Fundraising covers the difference between actual cost and the deficit created by tuition assistance and individual school costs not included in the actual cost per pupil. Fundraisers also help to build community. Fundraising will always be necessary to some extent.

Each family at Nativity Catholic School is required to participate in the fundraising program. Your participation in this program is vital to the success of Nativity attaining its needed financial support. All families agree to supplement tuition and fees, and assist in school activities and fundraising by assuming responsibility for each of the following:

Mandatory Fundraising Responsibilities:

September: Catalog/Wrapping Paper Sales (PER FAMILY)

1 CHILD - $150 donation or generate $150 profit from sales

2 CHILDREN - $175 donation or generate $175 profit from sales

3+ CHILDREN - $200 donation or generate $200 profit from sales

(50% of sales will go towards profit)

October: Jog-A-Thon (PER CHILD)

$100 donation or generate $100 profit in pledges (100% of pledges go towards to profit)

November: Cookie Dough (PER FAMILY)

1 CHILD - $50 donation or generate $50 of sales

2 CHILDREN - $75 donation or generate $75 of sales

3+ CHILDREN - $100 donation or generate $100 sales

(40%-50% of sales go towards profit)

March (Spring): “Big Night” Dinner-Dance-and ? (PER FAMILY)

All families are required to purchase 2 tickets ($40 each) and purchase or sell 100 raffle tickets ($1 each) for a total of $180.

SCRIP

Each family is responsible for the purchase of SCRIP, generating $300 school profit, during the school year , July 1 through June 1. SCRIP is gift certificates for various stores and restaurants that are purchased at face value. You use the SCRIP card to purchase items or pay for food. Nativity Catholic School receives a percentage of the sales from the SCRIP provider. Families have the option of buying out their SCRIP commitment at a cost of $300.00. Proceeds from the SCRIP Program are part of the school’s operating budget. This is a yearlong fundraiser. This amount is NOT included in the Fundraising Program Agreement minimum requirement but is, nonetheless, mandatory.

Scrip may be ordered through the school office or SCRIP office.

Volunteer Hours

The Volunteer Support Program is an idea conceived as a means of actively strengthening the long-term viability of Nativity Catholic School. It also ensures high quality education continues at Nativity. The goal is to ask parents to make a commitment to the school in addition to paying tuition since revenues from Nativity tuition do not cover the operational cost of the school. The school administration has chosen to keep the Nativity School tuition costs as low as possible to allow a Catholic education to be available to as many families as possible. From a practical perspective this means that the gap between operational expenses and tuition revenues must be closed in other ways. Volunteering and fundraisers are essential elements in closing this budget gap.

Families must agree to work forty (40) approved hours for the Nativity Catholic School Volunteer Support Program or any other approved voluntary activity prior to April 2012 in the following manner: five (5) of the forty (40) service hours must be volunteered as Yard Duty service and five (5) hours of the forty (40) service hours must be volunteered during the annual parish/school festival. Any Volunteer Support Program hours not completed by April 2012 will be billed at $25.00 per hour.