The Our Redeemer RaiseRight program offers you an opportunity to reduce your tuition for the next year. You do this by purchasing gift cards through RaiseRight, for national and local retailers that sell their gift cards to the RaiseRight program at a discounted price (each with a different percentage of discount). You purchase the cards at face value and redeem them for face value, and our church with school keeps the rebate amount as a profit.

The Our Redeemer Board of Education decided that the school families can opt to have 90% of that profit from their purchases placed in their TRIP (Tuition Reimbursement Incentive Plan) account. The remaining 10% is placed back in the General Fund for help in administration costs for the program. The TRIP balance you accumulate is then used to reduce your child’s tuition for next year – Many Our Redeemer families regularly save thousands of dollars in tuition from the Scrip program each year!

Here is an example of how you can use RaiseRight:

RaiseRight orders can be placed anytime during the week, but they are “closed out” on Sunday nights at 8pm. Those orders will be ready for pick up, or delivered in your child’s backpack (if you choose that option by filling out the RaiseRight Enrollment and Backpack Waiver form), by Wednesday afternoon.

Let’s say you know that next week you are going to go to the grocery store (we will use Walmart as an example), the gas station (Speedway), and you are planning on going out to eat on Saturday night (Chili’s). 

You go  www.raiseright.com, log in, and order your gift cards. To pay for these cards, you can either pay online, by check (made out to ORSP and dropped off in the church or school office before Wednesday).

Your order for one week:

• Walmart card for $100; there is a 2.5% rebate which totals $2.50, and you get 90% of this rebate back for a total of $2.25 to your RaiseRight account
• Speedway card for $100; there is a 4% rebate which totals $4.00, and you get 90% of this rebate back for a total of $3.60 to your RaiseRight account
• Chili’s card for $50; there is an 11% rebate which totals $5.50, and you get 90% of this rebate back for a total of $4.95 to your RaiseRight account

In one week you earned $10.80 in FREE money - imagine how much money you could save if you did this every week!   

And this is just one example - there are hundreds of retailers to choose from, and most of them are places at which you already shop.  Visit www.raiseright.com to see the full list of retailers that offer gift cards through RaiseRight.

If you have questions about the Scrip program, please email our Scrip Program Coordinator, Mary Barta, at orscrip@gmail.com.