Fundraisers | Painless, Free, Easy $ for our school | Volunteering

The Annual Fund
Click here for more about the Annual Fund
Or
Make a tax-deductible donation for 100% of your gift to provide for your child's education.

Matching Gifts
Many companies will match your donations to SOPA, both monetary and volunteer hours!
One parent turned her volunteer hours into $1,000 cash for our children's programs through her employer!
Check with your company to see if they will, too!

Great Neighbors and Community Supporters
More about our Great Neighbors and Community Supporters business partnerships.

Capital Campaigns
More about our planned Capital Projects.

FUNDRAISERS

Entertainment Books
Wonderful holiday gifts!
San Fernando Valley $20
Los Angeles $25

The book pays for itself right away in all the money you save throughout the city (Ralph's, etc).
SOPA gets 20% back; more if we sell a lot!

For books, visit the front office, or email Ann at ann@shermanoaksparents.com.

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Innisbrook Gift Wrap Sales
Order your holiday gift wrap, gifts, and chocolates -- share it with family and friends -- 50% of the proceeds come back to our school!

Click the logo below -- you can order all year long online and SOES gets half the $!
Online orders will be delivered to your home.

The link will automatically link to Sherman Oaks Elementary, but just in case, our Innisbrook ID is 105383

Contact Barbara Johnson at anotherbjohnson@yahoo.com for more info or to help the committee in 2009-2010.

PAINLESS, FREE, EASY $ FOR OUR SCHOOL

Might as well have some of the money you are already spending come back and help your child's education!

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SHOP AT FASHION SQUARE MALL
Earning 4 Learning at Westfield Fashion Square mall on Riverside in Sherman Oaks.
Simply by logging receipts at the Concierge desk, or by turning receipts in to the box in the school office (and we'll log them for you), our school will receive free money! We have received thousands of dollars over the past couple years, enabling us to purchase digital cameras for the school, printers, and more.

Our school will share in a $15,000 prize depending on the number of points we log by the end of January 2009. The more points logged, the more money we get!

Receipts must be dated Sept 1, 2008 through Jan 31, 2009.
Make sure and log them for Sherman Oaks Elementary (NOT SOCES, which is a different school!)
The Concierge desk logs your receipts and gives them back to you.
If you turn the receipts into the office for us to log them for you, and you want them back, include your child's name and classroom number on an envelope and we will return them.

Double Points for ALL receipts logged in September!
Triple points for Westfield Gift Cards purchased in September and October!
TRIPLE POINTS for items bought and logged on Saturday, November 15, 2008!

Make your Pottery Barn, Apple, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, gift certificate, or ANY mall store purchases at Fashion Square mall through January, and our school gets free money to buy vital resources for our kids.
Click here for more

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RALPHS
All cards must be re-registered each September to continue earning money for our school.

Ralph's has a community giving program where a percentage of your purchases made using the Ralph's Club card is donated directly to OUR school.

Please sign up for your Ralph's Club Card today at https://customer.ralphs.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fManageCommunityRewardsStep1.aspx%2f.
Click "Sign up today!" to create a login/password and register your club card, and earn money for the programs we parents support through SOPA.

Organization Name: SHERMAN OAKS PARENTS ASSN
Organization Number: 81369

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Vons, Pavillions, Safeway, Macy's
Free money rewards from Vons, Pavillions, Safeway, Macy's, and more can be obtained through eScrip. Every time you use these cards, eScrip tracks it and our school gets money.

Sign up your cards online at eScrip.com and your child will reap the rewards!
Just click "(1) - Sign Up, It's Free! Select the group to be the beneficiary."
Select 'SHERMAN OAKS PARENTS ASSOC - S O P A'
(SOPA's group ID: 142139138).

You're spending the money shopping at these places anyway; might as well have some of that money provide your child's art, music, computer, and p.e. classes!

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CAMPBELL'S LABELS FOR EDUCATION
No more clipping labels, just sign up online and your Ralph's card takes care of it and money comes back to our school!

This program is separate from the Ralph's card sign up above! Please do both!

Sign up your Ralph's card (part of the Kroger family, so any Kroger, QFC, etc, card also works) at
http://elabelsforeducation.com/Sites/Campbells_eLabels/Page/HomePage/Retailer/Ralphs/.

In 2 easy steps, pick SHERMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY to give points to.

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BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION

Clip the Box Tops For Education coupon labels off your General Mills cereal, snacks, yogurt, Pillsbury, Ziplock, Betty Crocker, Hefty, Huggies, and more and more!

Bring the Box Tops cutouts to the school office.

Our school gets money!

More info on program and participating products: http://www.ralphs.com/services/Pages/box_tops_for_education.aspx

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WASHINGTON MUTUAL
Free money for Sherman Oaks Elementary every time you use your debit card!

Enroll your debit card for 'SHERMAN OAKS E S' at https://www.wamoolaforschools.com/Enroll.aspx and start having no-cost money come to your school! (The money is donated by WaMu, NOT your checking account).

*The bank is still serving as Washington Mutual until it transitions over to Chase.

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TARGET
Target cuts a check to our school based on the usage of your Target credit card when shopping.
Our school has received over $15,000 over the years!

Sign up at https://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-005158
and designate your Target REDcard to give 'SHERMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'
(School ID: 32879) a percentage of the purchases.

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VOLUNTEERING

Visit the Volunteering page in the SOPA section of this site.
A few immediate needs are:

Stop, Drop, & Roll
Even though each class in Grades 1 - 5 are responsible for a week during the year, Fill-ins are always welcomed and needed.

To join the volunteer list for SD&R, please contact Don Lukenbill at wordsmith_works@yahoo.com.

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Homework Club
Homework Club is a volunteer-run, free afterschool program that provides a quiet, safe, supervised place for students to do their homework.

It runs Monday - Thursday for 1 hour after school, usually in the library or an adjoing classroom.

The only way we can provide this for the kids and families is if we have enough volunteers.
Please contact Jody Bradley at jody@shermanoaksparents.com to volunteer an hour a week or whatever you can.
The HW Club will start as soon as we have enough volunteers!

For more on the HW Club, go to the Homework Club page in the AFTERSCHOOL section.