La Fondation des Gens Heureux de l'École Saint-Joseph has raised $7,750 to date and Carmen Charbonneau and Vincent Beauchesne, group administrators, explain how the funds raised with FundScrip are used.
L'école alternative Le Sentier is an elementary alternative school located in Boisbriand, Quebec and has now raised $8,775 to date. Fanny Leblond, group administrator, has a few words regarding her FundScrip experience.
McLeod Nursery School raised $921.95 with FundScrip. Here's what Lee Hurton had to say about her experience.
The Jean-du-Nord high school raised more than $6,000 with FundScrip. Donations helped students from Sept-Îles finance their trip to London!
We are happy to announce that we’ve been included in the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) list of approved fundraising vendors. Over the years, many parents and teachers in the Toronto area have asked us about this, and although it took a bit of time, it has been a pleasure to work with the TDSB to make this approval happen.
In 5 years, the Grande-Rivière high school raised almost $40,0000 for different school trips with the FundScrip program.
In only four years, the Outdoors program from the Versant High School raised more than $37,000 with FundScrip to travel to the Grand Canyon.
Back in April of this year, we were pleasantly surprised to see FundScrip being discussed by Yoni Freedhoff of Weighty Matters as an alternative to traditional fundraising efforts for Hospitals. Since then, the conversation about being smarter about how our large institutions fundraise has continued. This time in an article by Lois Abraham of The Canadian Press, the topic is one that is close to our hearts, the health of our students and how best to improve school fundraising.
The Social Science program at Cegep Beauce-Appalaches has raised more than $20,000 for educational trips. Even though this is their 15th trip, they only started using FundScrip in November 2013. "FundScrip has also become the most effective way to finance our trips, especially by doing it long term " said FundScrip group administrator Jonathan Roy Marois. These educational trips are organized in conjunction with the Integrative Seminar course which gives the students the opportunity to put into practice some of the social science methods that they’ve learned, with the goal of tackling various issues that exist at their destination.