PCO Fundraising

There are so many ways to support ECS through your everyday purchasing and recycling decisions. Thank you for allowing the PCO to supplement our fall and spring fundraisers through your participation in some of these ongoing programs. Download the flyer and share this info with family and friends who would like to support the school.

The PCO is partnering with a local non-profit organization called Building New Hope to bring a unique monthly fundraiser to ECS. Building New Hope's signature coffee, roasted to a light French roast, yielding a medium body, crisp, full flavor cup of coffee comes directly from El Porvenir, a farming cooperative in Nicaragua. Buying this coffee guarantees fair market and living wages for the farmers. The farmers use recognized proper environmental practices from planting through processing. Shade-grown coffee reduces soil erosion and maintains a biologically diverse habitat for plants, birds and other wildlife. The coffee is certified organically grown by the OCIA (Organic Crop Improvement Association). Also available is a decaffeinated organic, fair trade coffee, using a chemicalfree water process, from cooperatives throughout Latin America. Read more at www.buildingnewhope.org/coffee.html. 

Purchase your monthly supply of fair trade, shade-grown organic coffee each month and have it delivered to your child's classroom. If you pre-order and pay for coffee for at least 3 months in one order, you get a 10% discount on your total order!  All coffee is $10/pound.

Turn this order form and your payment in to the school office or send in your child's folder. If you want to take orders from friends, family, neighbors or co-workers, download this sign-up form for keeping track of sales.

Gourmet scented pencils made from 100% recycled newspapers.  $1 per pencil.  Contact fundraising@ecspco.org to buy Smencils.

As you do your everyday shopping and gift shopping, let ECS receive a portion of your purchase at the following stores. You don't need to make any special purchases to help out; even buying things we all need -- food, health care products, bathroom tissue! -- can help ECS enhance our children's educational experiences.

Target: ECS will receive a percentage of your purchase in the form of a cash donation from Target through the Take Charge of Education program. Just visit target.com/tcoe, or call 1-800-316-6142 to designate our school.  Our school ID is 149779.  Then use your Target Visa or Target Card every time you shop.

Giant Eagle: ECS will earn points to purchase educational materials through the Apples for Students program. The easiest way to enroll is by phone; it takes about 30 seconds. Call 1-800-474-4777, enter your Advantage Card number and our school ID# 5305. You may also register online at www.gianteagle.com. Then use your Advantage Card when you shop at Giant Eagle for our school to receive credit.

Carnegie Museums: When you become a new member or renew your membership to the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, a portion of your membership fee will be returned to ECS when you click on this link to join.

Amazon.com: ECS will receive 4-8% of your purchase when you buy books, household products, gifts or more from Amazon.com.  To ensure that ECS gets credit for your purchase, click on one of the links below and then complete your purchase.

Abitibi Paper Retriever Bin: newspapers, magazines, office paper, catalogs, and junk mail (no cardboard or phone books). The green and yellow Paper Retriver bin is behind the ECS building in the playground area. ECS earns money for each ton of paper collected. http://www.paperretriever.com

Box Tops for Education: box top labels from General Mills products (Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Progresso, Old El Paso, Pillsbury, etc.). Designated collection box is in back of ECS auditorium. http://www.boxtops4education.com

Campbell's Labels for Education: UPC labels or lids from participating products (Campbell's soup, Pepperidge Farm, Spaghettios, Prego Italian Sauces, V8 Beverages). Designated collection box is in back of ECS auditorium.  http://www.labelsforeducation.com

Cartridges for Kids: empty ink cartridges, used cell phones and other electronics including laptops, digital cameras, video games, DVD movies. CFK receptacle is in ECS school office. http://www.cartridgesforkids.com