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School Committee members along with our faculty have worked tirelessly, especially during the past two school years, to develop new strategies and programs that will strengthen our school programs which will ensure the viability of our school for years to come. Marketing and financial stability have become two new areas that we have focused much of our time and effort on during this time. We are committed to ensuring that St. William Catholic School will be here to provide for our students now as well as in generations to come. That is what those before us have accomplished; that is what we are called to do as well. Our recent gathering, Celebrate St. William, was our first step to the development of an alumni organization for our school. We will be working to plan future gatherings which will strengthen this effort and some day to help provide financial support of our school by those who have benefited from it the most- our alumni. Two years ago, we implemented our new tuition policy which asked our families, both in the school and after school programs, to consider if they needed financial support from the parish in order to send their children to either of these programs. A parish subsidy was no longer given to all; it was given to those who needed it. This was innovative and was very well received by our parents. For that we are grateful. We know that each family who has their children attending our school is making a sacrifice. We are blessed to have parents who are committed to make that and so many other sacrifices to be a part of our school. We are pleased to announce that we have yet another program we will begin this week that we are hopeful will provide further financial support to our school and parish. School Committee, Stewardship, and Fr. Michael met last week and approved the implementation of our involvement in the Scrip program. We wish to thank them for their support of us as we begin this new endeavor. School Committee strongly believes that this is one way that all of us and those whom we know can support St. William School and Parish. Some of us may be finding it difficult to support our parish as much as we would like to during these difficult economic times. However, we all need to buy groceries and other items. We can support our parish and our school by supporting and participating in the Scrip program. As the program is explained to you in this letter, it is important for you to know our current commitment to Stewardship at this time includes the following:
Simply put, the Scrip program allows our families to earn credits through their regular shopping at grocery stores, retail stores, gas stations, restaurants, theaters, etc. There are two categories of the program- community rewards programs and the purchasing of Scrip cards through the school. Each community rewards program runs with some uniqueness, but each allows a family to indicate a recipient, St. William School, who will receive a certain percentage of credit returned as a result of regular shopping. The other Scrip programs involve pre-ordering of gift cards that once again give the organization a percentage of return for each purchase. Scrip Introduction Letter (PDF) St. William Order Form (PDF) |
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