Kroger's Community Rewards

For quite a while, Kroger's has had a community rewards program, where they would rebate back to your nonprofit organization 5% of your spending. I believe this started out with buying gift certifcates, then they switched it to using their reloadable gift cards. Jus this month, they have modified it again, and it is so much better! It is now FINALLY attached to your Kroger Plus card. I used to load my gift card every pay day, but it never failed that a couple days before the next paycheck, I would need $10-15 of stuff and was in too big a hurry to reload the card, or I would forget how much was on the card and was afraid of using it all up and invalidating the card. Grandpa also had a gift card that assigned to the kids, but he would forget to use it. Now that doesn't matter. All we had to do was go online and sign up for or update our Kroger accounts and specify our church youth organization in the Community Rewards area. My brother in Cincinnati has even signed up for us!

This is such a great deal. It doesn't cost anything extra outside of what you already spend at Krogers, and last year, even just with myself and Grandpa, the kids received enough from the rewards program to pay for half their camp fees. I'm so excited to see what will happen next year! (It's too late to make much difference for camp next month.) We have 5 families (including us) who are participating, so I am hopeful that, between the Kroger rewards and other fundraisers, we won't have much out-of-pocket camp cost. What a blessing!