Angel Fund

Our Angel Fund is an emergency fund for members.

There are many ways for you to contribute to the Angel Fund. You can go the traditional route and place cash or a check in the offering plate.

If you don’t have the extra money for this right now, we understand. However, here are some creative ways to contribute to the Angel Fund by using reward points or by earning or saving a little extra money here and there.

If you have a major credit card, you probably earn reward points for your spending. Consider redeeming your points for items or cash that can be donated to the Angel Fund. For example: If you have a Wells Fargo Visa, you can redeem 2,500 reward points for a $25.00 Target gift card.

If you have a Bank of America AMX card, you can redeem reward points for cash. 2,500 points may be redeemed for $25.00 (they mail you a check).

If you have a Discover Card, redeem your cashback bonus by having the cash deposited into your checking account (minimum transfer of $20). Also with Discover, you can shop their partners and buy a Sam’s Club gift card in the amount $50.00 that also waives the membership fee for only $40.00. (There are other shopping partners like this one at www.discovercard.com.)

Goin’ to the lake for the summer or south for the winter? Use the snowbird option with your Comcast Cable services. You can suspend your service for a minimum of two months / maximum of six months one time each year. You will be charged $10.00 per month for each service that you have (TV, Internet, Phone) for a maximum of $30.00 per month. And then, guess what you can do with all that money you’ll be saving?

Go through your winter coats, your purses, your sofa, your dresser drawers, your glove box, your junk drawer, and consolidate all the loose change. Drop it into the machine at the Wells Fargo at 48th & Chicago (or your favorite change machine) to have it counted and converted into paper money. If each of 100 folks came up with $5.00 in change, we’d have an extra $500 in the Angel Fund! (Isn’t it cool how that works?)

Check out cash4books.net . You send them your used books and they send you cash.

Sam's Club, Amazon, and Costco all have programs that reward you with a gift card for old electronics such as iPods and cell phones.

Sell some stuff (eBay, Craig’s List, consignment shops, yard sale).

Is all your music loaded onto your computer and iPod? Then you can take the original CD’s to Music Go Round and sell them.

Don’t use that china anymore? www.classicreplacements.com will buy it.

If you have season tickets to something, sell the tickets for just one of the events and then donate that money.

If you are fortunate enough to have a housekeeper, ask him or her if he / she will be taking a vacation. Since you won’t be paying the housekeeper that week, consider donating what you would have paid him / her.

How about passing on the Grandé Latté for a week and donating that $15.00 to the Angel Fund?

Brown bag your lunch for a couple of weeks and donate the money you saved.

Rent out your cabin for a week this summer or sell your timeshare week this year.

These little money-makers/savers are just that – little. However, when you multiply each one by 10 or 20 they become significant. So, please keep the Angel Fund in mind when you shop, read, groove to your tunes, eat lunch, hawk your tickets, pay or use your credit card, leave home for an extended period, or do your spring cleaning.