Help our school prosper! You can become a patron or volunteer your time. Ensure the school receives a donation whenever you shop through eScrip, or send us your old inkjets. Click the links above for more information.
  Friends of Ile Omode
 

The Friends of Ile Omode was started in 6242 (2002) to provide interested individuals (or groups) with an opportunity to financially contribute to the school. Friends of the school provide an annual contribution of any amount. Contributions can be as little as $25, although we encourage Friends to contribute a minimum of $100.

Friends are only required to make a single financial contribution each year. Contributions can be as little as $25, although special gifts are available for contributions greater than $100. Contributions of $100 or more will receive a “Friends of Ile Omode” t-shirt, and contributions exceeding $250 will receive a matching hat.

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  Inkjet Recycling
 

Don't throw away your old inkjet cartridges! Our school is partnered with a vendor to provide $3 for each used inkjet cartridge we send. The inkjets are cleaned and reused, which reduces the landfill. So in addition to earning money for the school, we also do a good turn for the environment. They accept ink jet cartridges from most vendors, including, Hewlett Packard, Lexmark, Compaq, and most Cannon cartridges (BC01/02/05, BC20, and BX3); please note, however, that they do not accept Epson cartridges.

The company provides a convenient box with instructions for packing the inkjet cartridges. One parent suggested bringing the box (a small box) to work to make it even easier for colleagues to recycle their ink jet cartridges. Contact the staff if you would like to place a box at your place of work.

Volunteering

There are a number of volunteer opportunities throughout the year. Some volunteer opportunties are regularly needed, and others occur as a particular need arises (although we always have something to do :)

Volunteers are always needed to support our after school homework center. Our after school program serves the elementary (the preschool is a different program), and we're always looking for tutors who can serve this age group (K through 6th) in all subjects. Tutors must meet with the director and are required to provide documentation showing a negative TB test.

Individuals with unique skills may offer to facilitate an after school program. In the past individuals have offered after school programs in model building, West African dance, modern dance, chess, and art to name a few. After school programs vary in time and duration. Generally most are 1 hour, and vary from 2 - 8 weeks. If you have skills which may be useful in an after school setting contact the director.
 

eScrip and merchants have created a system that contributes a percentage of purchases to our school. You can register your credit, debit, and grocery club cards as supporters with the eScrip program. Upon receipt of registration, a percentage of all purchases made at eScrip merchants will be given back to our school. Enrollment is absolutely free!

To register:

  • Log on to www.eScrip.com and go to "sign up" (or download the enrollment form, and mail it)
  • Designate Ile Omode; Ile Omode's group ID is 3732167

There are hundreds of merchants partnered with eScrip, a few in the San Francisco Bay Area include: Safeway, Pak 'n Save, Whole Foods, Food 4 Less, Big O Tires, Pepboys, Payless ShoeSource, and OfficeMax. You can also enroll any bank ATM, and several major credit cards.

Again the program is free, and you will not receive ANY solicitation. You will receive a quarterly contributions report which indicates how much money has been contributed to the school on your behalf.

   
  

WaMoola for Schools
Washington Mutual offers a program, WaMoola for Schools, which allows their customers to earn points every time they make a purchase their enrolled Washington Mutual Debit MasterCard or Visa CheckCard. At the end of the calendar year, Washington Mutual converts the points to cash and a check is mailed to the school. See their web site for more details.

 

VOLUNTEER: Volunteers building garden boxes for our garden.
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VOLUNTEER : Baba Jeffery, a participant at the Million Man March, led a workshop during a MMM/Day of Atonement observance.