V.O.I.C.E. Program
V.O.I.C.E (Value Opportunities in Catholic Education) is a fundraising program that helps the parish, school and individual families interested in Catholic education.
Here is how it works. Instead of going to the store and spending your cash, we ask that you purchase gift certificates from the V.O.I.C.E. program and use these certificates to make your purchases. The wonderful thing about shopping this way is that it doesn't cost you anything extra.
We have a tremendous assortment of certificates available, including grocery stores, gasoline certificates, department stores and home improvements. We even have movie theater certificates, video store and other specialty shop certificates. You can even pay down your Carsons, Penneys or Kohls charge card bills using their respective certificates.
The V.O.I.C.E. program purchases these gift certificates at a small discount. Each time you purchase a certificate at face value, the difference becomes profit to the program. We then split the profit in the form of tuition credit, reducing the tuition of a child participating in catholic education. The rest of the profit is applied to the school budget, reducing the parish subsidy to the school.
As a parishioner, you can help by participating in the program. The entire profit goes to the school budget or you may designate that a portion go to a specific child participating in catholic education at Our Lady of the Ridge.
The child you designate to receive tuition reduction credit must be signed up and registered with the V.O.I.C.E. program before they can receive credit. If you would like to designate that your participation help a specific child, simply put their ID number on the order form.
If you are a parishioner and have a child in CCD (ER) or in the parish school, you should sign up and participate. If you have a child in a Chicago area Catholic high school and belong to Our Lady of the Ridge parish you should participate. Even if you have a 2 year old or older child and plan on sending your child to the parish school in the future, you should participate.
We make it extremely easy to participate. Just stop at the V.O.I.C.E cart before or after Mass on Sunday to get more details.