We have different ways in helping our school to raise money. Below are ways you can help in your everyday lives. Rake-A-Thon: This annual event takes place when the students, teachers and parent volunteers take an afternoon in mid-October to go into our community and rake the yards of elderly or handicapped individuals who have notified the school. Groups of students from each grade are supervised by teachers and parents who have volunteered to help out and are transported to the various sites by cars. The childern return to the school in plenty of time to have a snack and catch their bus home.  Each year a date is set but it does depend on whether a majority of the leaves have fallen and if the weather cooperates with us.  This is one of our biggest fundraisers and the kids really enjoy it.  Call the school if you want to volunteer this year. Mardi Gras Dinner and Auction: This annual event takes place at the end of Catholic Schools Week (usually at the end of January or the beginning of February). We convert our gymnasium into an elegant dining experience, complete with a wide variety of games and entertainment. Running concurrently with the dinner, we also have a large and diverse silent auction. The evening concludes with an exciting live auction, featuring many different local donors.  This has, historically, been our largest fundraiser of the year! Calendars: This is the last of our “big three” fundraisers. Families are asked to sell calendars that feature photographs of Cathedral School students, the upcoming year’s school schedule, and highlights many different Christian celebrations.  In addition, many businesses take advantage of the opportunity to advertise in our calendar.  This fundraiser has been growing in importance in recent years! Box Tops for Education Program:     Clip the Box Tops logos from more than 330 participating General Mills products, and turn them into cash  for your favorite school. This simple idea has become a favorite fundraiser for over 60,000 K-8 schools nationwide. It's easy to participate. 1. Collect Box Tops. 2. Send your Box Tops to the Cathedral School 3. Your school sends the Box Tops in and the Cathedral receives a check. “Take Charge of Education Program”:   Sponsored by Target Stores When you apply for a Target Guest Card, you can designate the Cathedral School as your school of choice.  From then on,  everytime you use your Target Guest Card, 1 % of your total purchases will be donated to the Cathedral School by the Target Corporation.  If you already have a target Guest Card, simply call 1-800-316-6142 to designate  our school. Recycle Empty Toner Cartridges: Ink Doctor ™ is a program designed to make recycling benefit our school by paying cash for empty inkjet, laser, fax and copier cartridges. Here is what you can do:   Bring in to the school empty cartridges from home and work. For inkjets, we get paid up to $1.00, for laser, fax and copier  cartridges, we get paid up to $8.00. Ask area businesses to sponsor us by saving empty cartridges. Campbell Soup Labels: The Cathedral School is participating in Campbell’s labels for Education Program.  This is a great way for our school to earn FREE educational and athletic equipment for kids. And it’s an easy way to help.  Just save the labels from any of the hundreds of varieties of Campbell’s products.  The products eligible for redemption in the program include: Campbell’s Soups, Franco-American SpaghettiO’s Prego sauces Swanson broth’s and poultry\Pace salsa and Picante sauces V8 and tomato juices V8 Splash juice Pepperidge Farm bread Cookies and Goldfish and Food Service Products Save your labels and proof of purchase labels from these products and send them to the Cathedral School. Hugo Coupon Books: The book has a $74.65 value and we sell it for $10.00. We profit $9.00 on each book sold.