Ways to Give: Passive Income

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Passive income has been a loosely used term in recent years. Colloquially, it’s been used to define money being earned regularly with little or no effort on the part of the person receiving it. That’s our story and we’re sticking with it! This kind of fundraising has become very popular and it is easy to see why.

Rush River Lutheran has established several passive income fundraisers:

Amazon Smile

AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.

This is a simple and automatic way for you to support Rush River Lutheran Church every time you shop, at no cost to you! When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same shopping experience as at Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to the church.

To get started, visit smile.amazon.com and search for Rush River Lutheran Church from their list of approved organizations.  It’s that simple!  Remember to use the smile.amazon.com site rather than the usual Amazon.com site each time you make a purchase in order for a donation to be generated.

Please go to AmazonSmile and select Rush River Lutheran as your charity of choice! Proceeds are automatically deposited to the general fund at RRLC.

Kwik Trip/Kwik Star Car Wash Cards

Our Car Wash card fundraising program allows Rush River Lutheran Church to purchase Kwik Trip, Inc. 5-count Ultimate Car Wash cards for $20 a card. We sell the cards for $36 each, the cost of retail. That is a $16 profit per card for Rush River Lutheran Church supporting the general fund of RRLC – can’t beat that!

Direct Your Dollars

Thanks to the Direct Your Dollars program, Rush River Lutheran Church has the opportunity to earn $1,000 from SpartanNash, simply by shopping at any local Family Fresh and Econofoods. Through the Direct Your Dollars program, we can turn receipts into cash for RRLC!

It’s easy to help us “Direct Your Dollars.” Every time you shop at any Family Fresh Market or Econofoods, save your receipts.  The entire, original receipt must be turned in. For every $150,000 in receipts we collect, we earn $1,000 donation from SpartanNash.

Receipts may be sent via mail or dropped off in person at Rush River Lutheran Church (the jar on the collection table near the upper entry). This is an ongoing collection and has no deadline. With your support – and your receipts – we’ll be raising money for the general fund of RRLC.

 Aluminum Can Collection

Remember to save your aluminum cans and place them in the trailer in the Rush River Lutheran parking lot! Proceeds support the youth program at Rush River Lutheran Church.

Aluminum can factoids from Waste Management:

  • With approximately a half-ounce of aluminum per can, or 32 cans per pound, that makes each one worth about 1.7 cents.
  • On average, Americans drink one beverage from aluminum cans every day, but we recycle just over 49% of the cans we use.
  • Since the cans are 100% recyclable, we could drastically reduce the energy needed to produce brand new cans simply by recycling our empties.
  • An aluminum can is able to be returned to the shelf, as a new can, as quickly as 60 days after it’s put into your recycling container.
  • Recycling aluminum cans is a $1 billion/year industry in this country.
  • Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.
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