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Fundraising your families do while grocery shopping.
Your families already spend thousands a month at the kosher grocery, the pizza shop, the pharmacy and the big-box stores. A scrip program routes those purchases through gift cards for local community merchants and national retailers — and the school or shul earns on every card, forever.
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The problem
Sound familiar?
Donor fatigue is realThe dinner, the appeal, the raffle, the auction — families feel tapped out. Scrip raises money without asking anyone to give more.
Manual scrip is a part-time jobTraditional scrip programs mean paper order forms, envelope cash, card distribution tables, and a burned-out volunteer coordinator.
Participation fadesWithout reminders and easy reordering, even enthusiastic families drift away after a few months.
What 613OS does
Built to make this disappear
Local community merchants and national retailers in one branded portal. Every card ordered earns for the school or shul, tracked to the family that bought it.
Digital ordering portalFamilies order physical or e-gift cards for local community merchants and hundreds of national retailers through your school's or shul's branded portal — no paper forms.
Automatic rebatesThe merchant's discount (typically 3–6%) flows to the school or shul on every card, tracked and reported automatically.
Recurring ordersFamilies set their monthly grocery card order once. Passive income compounds without anyone remembering to reorder.
Family credit optionLet scrip earnings offset each family's tuition or fundraising obligation — the strongest participation driver there is.
Leaderboards & goalsClass competitions and school-wide thermometers turn passive fundraising into friendly engagement.
Zero-touch administrationOrders, fulfillment, and rebate tracking run through the platform. Your volunteer coordinator gets their life back.
3–6%of every card's face value, typically, earned by the school or shul
$50K+annual passive revenue for a school with 200 participating families
$0extra cost to the family — cards bought and spent at face value
Local community merchants first. The kosher grocery, the pizza shop, the bakery, the judaica store — the places your families already shop every week — alongside national brands. The school or shul earns on every card, and the neighborhood businesses get the loyalty.
Works together with
Related features
Fundraising campaignsAppeals, matching drives and building campaigns — scrip runs quietly alongside all of them.Learn more →School storeUniforms, seforim and spirit wear sold online — orders tied to the same family record.Learn more →Tuition collectionCredit scrip earnings against the family's tuition obligation — the system tracks per-family totals.Learn more →
Frequently asked questions
What is scrip and gift card fundraising?
Scrip and gift card fundraising lets families buy gift cards for the local community merchants and stores they already shop at — the kosher grocery, the pizza shop, the pharmacy, gas, national retailers — with a percentage flowing to the school or shul automatically. Families spend what they'd spend anyway; the school or shul earns on every card. 613OS runs the program digitally, without paper card inventory.
How does scrip raise money without costing families anything extra?
Families buy a grocery gift card at face value and spend it at face value; the merchant's rebate — typically 3–6% — flows to the school or shul. Spending that was happening anyway becomes fundraising, painlessly and repeatedly.
Which merchants work best for our community?
Local community merchants — the kosher grocery, the pizza shop, the bakery, the judaica store — and the retailers families already use weekly drive the volume. 613OS builds the program around local community merchants alongside national brands, which also strengthens the school's or shul's relationships with neighborhood businesses.
Is there paper card inventory to manage?
No. The program runs digitally — orders, delivery, and rebate tracking happen in the platform, eliminating the envelope-of-cards logistics that killed many parent-run scrip programs.
Can scrip credit toward a family's tuition obligation?
That's your policy choice. Some schools credit a share of each family's scrip rebates against tuition or fundraising obligations — the system tracks per-family totals either way.
See the scrip program running at your school or shul
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show you exactly how this would run at your institution — the portal, the merchants, and what every card earns.
613os.com/demo · 305-954-7362 · yoni@613os.com