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Donate Supplies

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Do you have access to spare school or cleaning supplies?  Is your church, Bible Study, or other group interested in organizing a supplies drive?  Check out our wish list for some ideas of ways you can bless Grace with much needed items for our school and students.  If you are interested, please contact our office to confirm how to best coordinate your plans with the school at admin@gcachicago.org  

Supplies Wish List

Fundraisers

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Are you connected to a business or restaurant that is willing to help Grace out with a fundraiser?  If you would like to organize a Grace fundraising event, contact us at admin@gcachicago.org and we will coordinate to support your event in any way we can.
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Scholarships

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It takes approximately $6200 per year to educate each child at Grace Christian Academy.  However, the majority of families which Grace serves (80%) are below 185% of the poverty line.  These families make major sacrifices just to pay the $1700 average annual tuition which Grace charges.  Clearly, we cannot complete our calling to provide Christian education in Little Village without the support of our generous churches and donors!  Your donations go directly towards the funds that ensure any family that desires quality, Christian education is able to receive the financial assistance that they need.

Summer Work Days

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While our students are enjoying their summer vacations, we are often at Grace struggling to complete painting, landscaping, cleaning, and other building repairs before the students return in August.  With no maintenance crew or full-time janitor on staff, most of this work falls on the principal and office staff as well as the occasional parent volunteer.  Work teams provide a great service to the school by volunteering a day to help us complete these much-needed projects and keep our school building safe and looking nice.  If a group from your church or job would be willing to provide labor at the school during the summer, please contact us to schedule a day at admin@gcachicago.org 

Thrivent

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If you are a Thrivent member, Thrivent Choice Dollars are a great way to support Grace.  Direct your Thrivent Choice Dollars to Grace Christian Academy/Grace Lutheran School as you earn them based upon insurance premiums, contract values, and volunteer hours.  Additional information about eligibility requirements and how to designate your dollars can be found at thrivent.com under membership and benefits.

Support Our Bus

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Grace Christian Academy has a long relationship with Racetrack Ministries.  Racetrack Ministries helps children growing up on the Hawthorn and Arlington Racetracks with safe, quality Christian education at Grace.  The families that live on the racetrack face constant economic uncertainty as work comes and goes and parents often have to travel to other tracks to stay employed.  Racetrack Ministries provides a one-year full-scholarship to Grace for new students whose parents work at the racetrack.  Grace absorbs the cost of transportation to ensure the children have a ride to and from the track.  We currently own a small school bus that incurs costs of over $16,700 per year to run a daily morning and afternoon route for up to 25 students.
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This service is essential for our racetrack parents who work both early morning and mid-afternoon shifts at the track.  We have been blessed over the years to see the growth and accomplishments of many wonderful students off the track but the cost of transportation has been an on-going struggle for the school.  If you are interested in partnering with us to support this program, donations can be made to Grace Lutheran School with a note or memo to designate your gift to the bus.

Partnership Programs

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Boxtops is changing its program!
Boxtop cutouts will be slowly eliminated but you can still support Grace by scanning your boxtop receipts on any smartphone with the Boxtops app.  Download the app, select Grace as your school of choice, and scan your receipts with boxtop purchases to continue to support Grace. 

We will continue to collect boxtops until they expire.  Whether you send us your final boxtop clippings or support us by scanning your receipts in the new Boxtop apps, these points add up!  Boxtops go to support programs like our Christmas and Easter events, field trips, and other activities throughout the year.

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Amazon Smile: If you love shopping on Amazon, make sure to link your account to Amazon Smile. You can select Grace Lutheran School as the charitable organization of your choice and Amazon will donate .5% of all your purchases back to Grace.  Amazon Smile is the exact same shopping experience as Amazon however you must shop through smile.amazon.com for Grace to receive a donation.  To set up your account with Amazon Smile, visit smile.amazon.com and log into your Amazon account.  Under the “pick your own charitable organization” tab, search for Grace Lutheran School, Chicago.  When Grace pops up, click the “select” button next to our name.  Then, continue your Amazon shopping as usual and Grace will receive a percent of all your purchases when you shop on Amazon through the Amazon Smile homepage.

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Goodshop:
​GoodSearch raises money for Grace by generating one cent per Internet search. Participants download a tool bar, choose Grace Lutheran School, Chicago as the charity and begin earning money for our school. 

GoodSearch also partners with GoodShop and other "Good" sites such as GoodGames and GoodSurveys. These sites earn funds for Grace anytime someone purchases an item from a participating store, "clicks through" from the GoodShop site or they takes a qualifying survey or plays a sponsored game. 
All donations are automatically credited to our school and require no additional steps. Click on the GoodSearch logo below to be linked to this program:

Frequent Flyer Miles

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Our 7th and 8th grade classes get to experience an extended trip each May, either to Washington, D.C. or Atlanta, Georgia.  Contributions of Southwest frequent flyer miles would be a tremendous help to offset the costs of these trips.  Although we may have an occasional use for miles from other airlines, we have found the convenience of taking Southwest from nearby Midway Airport and no luggage fees to work best for our class trips.