Fund Raising

*November 2021: Kid Ease is seeking a parent volunteer to join the Board and conduct fundraising activities. Please email kideaseboard @ gmail.com for more information*

Please email the Board if you have fundraising ideas!

Fundraising dollars go toward purchasing, maintaining and replacing appliances, furniture, and other equipment within the school that is owned by Kid Ease, including all kitchen appliances, the washer/dryer, the indoor and outdoor play structures, and the play yard shade sail. 

We appreciate your contribution to our fundraising efforts. We were able to make several needed upgrades in 2018 to our facility such as the purchase of a new kitchen freezer and a new commercial washer/dryer. The play yard shade sail was replaced in 2020.

ONGOING FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES

Amazon Smile

Supporting Kid Ease whenever you shop on Amazon is easy! Simply visit the following link: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/94-3367048

Description from Amazon: AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.

eScrip

Sign Up Now!  eScrip is proven to be a fantastic resource for fundraising where participating business partners contribute a percentage of your grocery loyalty cards, credit card, and debit/ATM card purchases to the school of your choice. Visit eScrip's family of merchants for a complete list of participants in the program.There are 6 easy steps to register as a supporter with eScrip. The first step of the registration process is for you to identify the school through Group ID number. The Group ID number to enter for Kid Ease is 151607676.

Here's How it Works: Once you register any one or all of your existing grocery loyalty, debit and credit cards for use in the program. Participating merchants will make contributions to your chosen group, based on purchases made by you, just by using the cards you have registered. Your purchases are tracked and available to you online, allowing you to see just how much you are earning on your child's behalf!

United Way - Our Promise Campaign

In September, look out for the Our Promise Campaign pledge form that you will receive through your work and please donate a charitable gift through United Way. Wouldn’t it feel great to know that your charitable contributions will go to help our kids directly? Here is a way that it can be done and have it also be tax deductible. The Our Promise Campaign kicks off in September and by simply filling out the pledge form out to [placeholder for new account number], your charitable gift will come back to our kids at our school. Please check back soon for an updated account number.

https://www.ourpromiseca.org/ 

Silent Auction

Our most recent silent auction was held during the Fall Fundraiser Event at Funderland on October 6, 2017. Kid Ease is planning to run another silent auction event when conditions allow. Please stay tuned for more information.

PAST FUNDRAISING ACTIVITES

Used Book Fair Sale Event

Throughout the year, parents bring in their used books for our used book sale that happens every Spring and Fall. We accept all types of books! Although it seems that consistently we have had a huge demand for Children’s, Cooking, Travel, and Gardening Books. We also sell CD’s and DVD’s as part of our sale. If you would like to participate, please keep an eye out for flyers. Also, note that donations are tax deductible.

Random Raffle Sales

Annually, KidEase Board members solicit donations in the form of gift certificates from restaurants in the downtown and midtown Sacramento area. The following restaurants have donated gift certificates in the past: the Melting Pot, Bangkok@12, Zocalo’s, the Grange and many others in denominations of $25 to $100. We have letters that KidEase provides to businesses to help with this raffle effort. If you would like to help solicit donations, please email the Kid-EaseFundraising Director. Look out for flyers if you would also like to participate in future raffle event. You might just be the lucky one. You can’t beat winning a $100 gift certificate for only paying $1 per raffle ticket. This may just be a worthwhile experience.

Jamba Juice Sale Event

July 2011 was our first year doing the Jamba Juice event. No parent involvement is required. The only request is that when we advertise the event, we ask that you help market the event so we can sell as much as we can. And if you would like to buy a yummy smoothie too, it helps towards making the event even more successful. Because the more we sell, the more money comes back to help our school. Jamba Juice donates 20% of the proceeds made from the event with very little effort involved.