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The folks at the Athens chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) wonder if you would kindly consider helping us raise money at no cost to yourself. Kroger issues "Gift Cards" which are electronically coded so as to channel Kroger support to specific non profits. Anyone who shops at Kroger* and wants to do so, can use a Kroger card to trigger the mother company to give 5% of all that customer spends at any store in the country* to NAMI - to be divided 50-50 between our state organization and NAMI Athens.
 It's easy: We send you a card coded for NAMI Athens. When you shop, you load money into it at the manager's desk or at the check-out counter before you check out or gas up and then you pay for your groceries and/or gasoline by swiping the card the way you would a credit card. You can use cash, check or credit card (including the Kroger Credit Card) to load your gift card. That tells Kroger to give NAMI 5% of all you spend - at no cost to you. Your Kroger discount card is not effected, nor discounts on Kroger gas - nothing. In fact, the card is anonymous - Kroger only knows that it codes to NAMI. They don't know who is using it. And it takes almost no time to load and swipe.
It's great for NAMI. Consider this: If you normally spend $300 per month at Kroger, NAMI will get $15 per month or $180 per year. $500 gives NAMI $25 monthly or $300 yearly. A huge benefit to NAMI at no expense and almost no bother to you. As
of March 2007, with 83 people using cards, revenues were coming
in from Kroger at a rate that would annualize to a cool $12,300!!!
We have cards that have been pre-loaded with $5.00 and coded for NAMI Ohio/Athens. (They had to be pre-loaded with a token amount in order to be activated. It's our gift to you.) If you'd like to help us, send your name and address to me at the office: Tom Walker, Political Science, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701. We'll do great things with the money.
* Other Kroger-affiliated stores where the card may be used: Fred Meyer, Ralphs, King Soopers, Fry's Food and drug, Fry's Marketplace, Smith's Food and Drug, Smith's Marketplace, Dillon's, QFC, Food 4 Less, City Market, Jay-C, Baker's, Gerbes, Foods Co, Hilander, Pay-Less Supermarkets, Owen's, Kroger Marketplace, Fred Meyer Jewelers, Littman Jewelers, and Barklay Jewelers |
