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What
is GAGC?
GAGC
stands for Guardian Angels Gift Certificates.
This Program is a fund raiser for HGA Parish. Gift cards and
certificates to over 150 national restaurants and retailers are offered;
these businesses in turn give to our Parish a certain percentage of our
gift card sales as a charitable donation.
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Who
benefits?
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Holy Guardian
Angels Parish
benefits from the GAGC Program.
Catholic
education
also benefits because our pastor, Monsignor Hartgen, has agreed to
give a certain percentage of the Church’s profit to families to help
defray the cost of Catholic school tuition and/or PREP registration
fees.
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Catholic
school families
(HGA Regional School, and/or Catholic high schools,
colleges/universities, or seminary of our Diocese) can apply the
credit towards their tuition.
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PREP
families
can apply the credit towards their family’s registration fee.
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Families
in financial need
may be given tuition assistance for Catholic education, at the
discretion of our school principal, Mrs. Wallin, through the
Mother Teresa Account.
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Businesses
benefit because the gift cards encourage people to shop at their
stores, plus they write off the donation as a charitable gift.
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Who
can participate?
Anybody and everybody can participate by purchasing GAGC (i.e. family
members, neighbors, co-workers, parishioners, non-parishioners,
non-Catholics, etc.).
Note: To receive Catholic school tuition credit and/or
PREP registration fee credit, be sure to have your friends identify your
Account Name (given upon registration) on all GAGC order envelopes and
forms.
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How
do I purchase GAGC?
The
GAGC Program maintains a daily inventory of gift cards as well as
making available additional gift cards ordered from the
GAGC Order Form.
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Gift cards
available daily, ordered from the white GAGC Order Envelope:
The following gift cards are available for sale seven days a week.
Giant
$10, $20, $50, $100
Weis/Kings
$10, $20, $50, $100
Redner’s
$20, $50, $100
Sheetz
$25, $50, $100
a.
Fill out a white GAGC Order Envelope indicating your
Name, Daytime Phone Number and Account Name and identify the
gift cards you wish to purchase.
b.
Enclose your check (made payable to GAGC) or exact cash
and receive your gift cards to use for your store purchases.
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Additional
gift cards available, ordered from the
GAGC Order Form:
In addition to Giant, Redners, Weis and Sheetz, gift cards and
certificates to over 150 national retailers and restaurants are
available; many can be redeemed online.
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Fill out a
GAGC Order Form
indicating your Name, Daytime Phone Number and Account Name and
identify the gift cards you wish to purchase.
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Enclose
your check (made payable to GAGC), or exact cash.
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By noon
the following Friday, your order will be ready for pickup.
Refer to the
GAGC
Order Form for exact order & pick-up dates.
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When/Where we sell Gift Certificates
Weekdays:
at
the HGA parish office during business hours (9am-4pm)
Weekends:
in
the vestibule of HGA Church before & after every Mass
HGA school: your order may also be processed through your child’s
weekly communication folder if order and payment are received by
Tuesday. (Mon/Tue daily folder for
Pre
School)
GAGC
Order Envelopes and Order Forms are available in the rectory and school
offices and at the GAGC table in the Church vestibule. The
GAGC Order Form is also
available to print from our parish website.
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How
do I receive “credit”?
Credit is given only towards Catholic education for those families who
participate in our GAGC Program. Simply purchase our gift certificates
and cards, and the parish will apply credit towards that family’s
Catholic school tuition and/or PREP fee.
Credit for gift card purchases vary from store to store and are subject
to change -- Giant, Redner’s, Weis -- a credit of 2% will
be given; Sheetz -- a credit of 1% will be given. All
other participating stores listed on the GAGC Order Form provide a
credit varying from 0.5% to 10%. (Please call Claudia Rudderow for a
copy of the most recent GAGC Directory which details the most current
percentages offered).
Bonus:
When the amount of tuition credit in a family’s account reaches $150,
then the percentage of credit will be doubled on future purchases for
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Terms:
1.
Program and percentages are subject to change. All sales are
final-No refunds or exchanges. Some restrictions may apply. HGA
Parish/School will not be held responsible for lost gift
cards/certificates.
2.
Program Year runs
6/1/10 through 5/31/11
with credit being applied to the 2011/2012 school year.
3.
GAGC Program credit will be applied towards a family’s PREP
enrollment fee** and/or Catholic school tuition (HGA
Regional School and Pre School, Catholic high schools, colleges*,
universities* or seminary* of our Diocese).
Amount of credit for a family will not exceed the cost of tuition and/or
registration fees.
*min. tuition credit
for colleges,
universities, seminary = $50, min. PREP Fee Credit = $10
4.
Any credit not applied to PREP enrollment fee and/or Catholic
school tuition will return to the GAGC Program/HGA Parish.
5.
If tuition for a Catholic school family has been paid in full and
the family leaves the Catholic school prior to the end of the school
year, the tuition credit will then be prorated and applied accordingly
to the tuition refunded.
6.
All checks must be made payable to GAGC. Do not combine
orders from a GAGC envelope and GAGC Order Form on one check. Purchases
over $1,000 must be made by cashier’s check, certified check, money
order or cash. Return check fee = $25. |
