What is the Gift Card Program?
The Gift Card Program is an extremely effective fundraising program for the Columbus Catholic Schools school system. Gift cards and certificates can be purchased at all of our schools during the week as well as our Catholic parishes after weekend masses.
Last year gift card sales totaled $1,843,401.02 with profits of $23,616.79 for the Columbus school system.
How does the Gift Card Program work?
The gift cards, certificates and services used in the program are purchased from the participating vendors/businesses at a discounted price and then sold to you, the customer, at face value. The profit the school system receives is based on this discounted price which is determined by each vendor.
The income generated by our school system from the GC Program is used for general operating purposes as well as tuition discounts for participating families.
Why use Gift Cards?
By buying gift cards you are automatically benefiting our schools and our children reap the rewards. Each Columbus Catholic Schools family is assigned a $200 gift card fee at the start of each school year. Once a family generates $200 of profit through their purchase of gift cards 50% of their future profits are listed as a credit on their tuition statement. The other 50% profit goes to the school system as contributed income. Several of our Columbus families generate enough income from their gift card purchases to receive more than $500 in tuition credit for the upcoming school year!
The Gift Card Order Form
Below you can open a pdf file of the full gift card order sheet. This sheet includes all of our gift card vendors. For local vendors we usually have gift cards and certificates in stock. For other vendors we submit an order every Monday morning. Orders received by 8:00 a.m. Monday will be processed for that week and usually arrive by Wednesday afternoon.
To use the order form simply fill it out and drop it off at the gift card office in the media center in the Columbus Catholic building. You may also email orders to giftcard@mfldacs.net . GC Full order sheet