Support King while shopping without spending an extra dime. Register your credit, debit and store loyalty cards with these programs and King will get a rebate ranging from 3-9% of every dollar you spend at participating merchants at no extra cost to you:

Register your credit cards at Escrip then shop at local groceries, restaurants, and stores. Every time you use your card at participating stores, King PTA gets a contribution from the merchant.  It doesn’t cost you anything extra and you don’t have to do anything extra after you register your cards. 

This is our best fundraiser and could be even better if everyone participated.

Participating merchants include:  Andronico's, Safeway,  Macy’s, Office Depot,  Office Max,  Big 5 Sporting Goods,  Eddie Bauer,  Budget Car Rental,  Baja Fresh,  Food 4 Less,  Pak N Save,  Mary Kay Cosmetics, Payless Shoe Source,  Roundtable Pizza,  Whole Foods,  Working Assets Long Distance, and more, plus many online merchants.

Register Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, Macy’s, ATM cards, and your Safeway club card. [Note to those who’ve previously registered - you must renew your Safeway club card every year. Go to www.escrip.com now to renew.]

How to sign up:

Register online at www.escrip.com .  Our group is listed under “Martin Luther King Middle School” Group ID #6662871.   eScrip allows you to split the contribution among up to three different organizations, so you can support all of your kids’ schools at the same time. You can also register by mail – check with one of the fundraising coordinators for forms.  

eScrip states that they will not license, sell, exchange or distribute any personally identifying information about eScrip participants to any third parties not directly involved in the eScrip program.

Albertsons’s runs its own rebate program. You just register your "Preferred Savings’" card at www.Albertsons.com Click on "Community Partners" in the "In the community" section. Or you can register in store or at 1-800-696-6419. King’s account number is 49001000780.

Ackerman's Volvo will donate 5% of your Volvo repair bill to the school of your choice. Check out www.ackermanservicingvolvo.com for more information.

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Office Depot contributes to 5% of everything you spend on school supplies.  Ask the cashier to credit the 5% to Martin Luther King Middle School, account number 70006113.  Office Depot then provides the school with credit toward supplies

Cody’s Books  If there are books you want for yourselves or an upcoming holiday gift, buy them at Cody’s during the May and November fundraisers (dates to be determined). Or buy gift certificates those weekends, and use them for your own purchases throughout the year.  Bring or mail your register receipts to the PTA mailbox in the school office (1781 Rose St 94703) and King will get 15% of your pre-tax purchase.  Shop at Cody’s at 1730 Fourth Street in Berkeley or online at http://www.codysbooks.com

Every time you use your Washington Mutual VISA Check Card, Wamu donates five cents to King. Register your card at www.wamoolaforschools.com

Shop online? Schoolpop and FreePledge are two web sites that make it easy for you to donate to Matin Luther King Middle School every time you shop online, without costing you (or us!) a cent.

Schoolpop has 250 national brand online catalogs like JC Penney,  OfficeMax,  L.L. Bean,  Amazon, Apple,  Dell,  Lands' End, Sears, Barnes & Noble, Target, Gap, PC Connection and many more. Even magazine subscriptions, car rentals (e.g., Budget, Enterprise) & airline reservations (e.g., United, Travelocity, Hotwire, Priceline). 

Register online at Schoolpop , select “Register Now!” and follow the process.  Select Martin Luther King Middle School, ID #0141916.  You can also register by fax or mail – contact the fundraising coordinator for forms.  Schoolpop works primarily with online purchases.  For most merchants, you must go to the merchants’ web sites through the www.Schoolpop.com site in order to get the rebate.

Freepledge's retailers include Amazon, Ebay, OfficeDepot, Drugstore.com and over 200 online retailers.Registration is not required.  This is a very convenient way to get contributions without having to login. Just bookmark http://kingberkeleypta.freepledge.com/ and select the retailer to shop online. Send the link to your family, friends and colleagues so they can benefit the school when they shop.

Support King at the office

Recycle your printer cartridges & cell phones. We can recycle empty inkjet or laser cartridges from most printers, faxes and copy machines and your old cell phones for cash for King. Find out what your office manager does with used cartridges and check with office-mates who have their own printers. The program is simple. We send a prepaid UPS box to your office to collect the cartridges. When it fills, you just tape up the box and give it to the UPS driver. King gets the credit automatically. That’s all there is to it. Each cartridge is worth anywhere from twenty cents to five dollars.