Renew your Escrip TODAY!

It's easy earning money year-round for Saratoga Education Foundation. Simply enroll on escrip.com designating SEF as the beneficiary. Earn money back to SEF when you shop at Safeway, Gene's, local department stores, and hundreds of other retailers – all are listed on the escrip.com website.  You can also earn money for SEF when shopping online; just go to shopping.escrip.com for more details.  If you are not signed up for eScrip now is the time to do it. It is FREE, easy, and all you need to do is sign up and register your Safeway card and your credit cards to earn money for SEF while you shop.  Choose Saratoga Education Foundation as your group to support.

Jump Start Your Holidays and Support SEF with Innisbrook Online Giftwrap

Start your holiday shopping with Innisbrook high quality gift wrap and bags, Helen Grace chocolates, and many other gift ideas, all while supporting your child's education. You can do it all online and have it shipped to your home. Ask family and friends to make purchases directly from Innisbrook at http://www.innisbrook.com/credits. Enter School Code: Foothill 103859, Argonaut 103860,Saratoga 103858 and Redwood 113107. This year's gift wrap fundraiser is all online!  No forms or money to collect and free shipping on orders over $85. Combine your order with family or friends to get free shipping! For more information click HERE.

Saratoga Education Foundation Annual Report

Saratoga Education Foundation invites you to view our annual report: The Outlook 

(note: please allow a few moments for The Outlook to load for online viewing)
 

The Outlook includes:

• Program allocation break out of SEF’s 2011-2012 grant of $1,179,000 to SUSD
• Description of a music class with SEF sponsored music teacher Margie Alejandro
• SEF Financial Summary for 2010-2011
• List of 2010-2011 donors
• 2010-2011 raffle winners

The all-volunteer SEF board wishes to sincerely thank our donors for supporting Saratoga’s schools last year!   It is only by working together that we can maintain the robustness of educational offerings currently benefiting all of our children.  We hope to count on you this school year to continue the tradition of excellence in our school community.

 The Outlook is delivered primarily online. If you would like a hard copy, some will be available in the school offices, or you can contact  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Welcome Back to School 2011-12!

As a fun-filled, relaxing summer winds down, SEF is gearing up for our Back-to-School efforts. Here's what's new for this year:

• SEF contributed over $1,179,000 to SUSD for 2011-12, including $186,000 to support lower class sizes in addition to our regular science, PE, computer instruction, art, music and library programs
• iPAD 2 and Nintendo 3DS raffle: Last year's raffle was a big hit, so the tradition continues. A Leadership Level donation of $800 per child ($1600 for 2 children, $2000 for 3 or more children) by 12/31/11 enters your family in both raffles. Or contribute $50 or more for a chance to win a Nintendo 3DS. One iPAD 2 and one Nintendo 3DS will be raffled district wide. Prizes donated anonymously.
• Leadership Level donation amount change: For the first time in 10 years, the leadership gift level has increased $100, from $700 per child enrolled in SUSD to $800 per child ($1600 for 2 children, $2000 for 3 children). With steady decreases in state funding over the past few years, the time has come to ask everyone to give a little bit more to help support excellent education in Saratoga.
• Gift Wrap: This year's Gift Wrap fundraiser will be online only. Click here for more details.
• eScrip reminder: We all need to update our eScrip accounts with our Safeway card info every year to continue the great support that SEF gets from this program.