Fundraising

*NEW 2018-19 Academic year:

As of the 2018-19 SPRING Semester, the fundraising portion of the student fees will change.   To eliminate confusion and ensure collection of all fees we will no longer split out a portion of Instrumental Music fees (PSCF) managed by the Conifer High School Instrumental Music Boosters (CHSIMB).  For ALL programs except Marching Band, the entire semester student fee will be on your Jeffco Student Fee bill payable via Jeffco Connect, with all of your other school fees.  

How can your family support the long-term health of the CHS instrumental program?

Every year CHSIMB hosts one or two fundraisers intended for the overall support of the music programs. Long-term expenditures would include things like new instruments and uniforms. Please help out the future students of the program just like previous families have helped your student by participating in as many fundraisers as you can.  The more funds we raise through our community organizations the more we can reduce overall music fees. 

We encourage ALL Instrumental music families to use the fundraising opportunities to support all Instrumental music programs.  Safeway Gas and Grocery Reward Cards, Scrip, Garage Sale, Amazon Smile purchases, Jazz & Orchestra Dinner Dance and Miscellaneous sales such as Butter Braids are a few of the fundraising opportunities open to ALL Instrumental Music families.  Let's face it, fundraising is one of the necessities of running a great instrumental music program. Whether it's paying for buses to competitions, additional instructors to improve the students' musicianship, or additional sheet music so we don't have to listen to the same songs year after year, the music program gets better when the parents and students help out by raising extra money. 

*What is Per Student Commitment Fee?

The Per Student Commitment Fee is the amount of money in addition to school fees necessary to pay for the expenses for one student to participate in the LOBO Regiment Marching Band. The goal is to keep fees lower and to enable families to use fundraising to cover a portion of the cost of the Marching Band program.

The *2018-19 Per Student Commitment Fees are:

Concert Band  - Fall                    $20 -fall

Orchestra & Chamber                $15 - fall       

Jazz Band                                     $20 - fall       

Fall Marching Band                   $445 fall* 

PLEASE NOTE:  The FALL 2018 Per Student Commitment Fee amounts listed above are in addition to the School Fees for Instrumental Music courses. (directly from the school home page Fee Appendix - Financials section.)

How can your family make your per student fundraising goal?

• Safeway re-loadable gift cards GAS AND GROCERY Rewards - at participating locations

  • Safeway will donate 5% of every dollar you spend using one of their gift cards to CHSIMB

  • The cards cost $5 and are pre-loaded with $5

  • Get your card from Emily Miller - send her an email at emilymil@msn.com

  • re-load the card at any cash register (before you start checking out) using any form of payment you like

  • don't forget that you can use the card to buy gas at participating Safeway gas stations www.safeway.com

  • get a card for friends and family - this is a great way to support the instrumental music program without having to contribute any of your own money, you just buy gas and groceries that you would buy anyway

  • Make a cash contribution

  • simply pay the Per Student Commitment Fee amount to CHSIMB and avoid the hassles of fundraising

• Amazon Smile – 

Use Amazon Smile when placing your online Amazon purchases.  By choosing Conifer High School Instrumental Music Boosters as your charity of choice, orders placed through the Amazon Smile website will generate a donation directly to the CHS Instrumental Music Program - https://smile.amazon.com/

 • King Soopers - Gas and Grocery Loyalty Card program – New as of April 1, 2019.  Register your King Soopers Loyalty card and designate Conifer High School Instrumental Music as our Charity organization.

1. First, you must have a loyalty card. If you do not, you can get one at the customer service desk at either King Soopers or City Market.  These cards allow you to receive discounted prices for your purchases. 

2. Here is a link that will take you to info on the loyalty program and follow the prompts to get set up to donate to the instrumental music programs at CHS. (Note that you may first have to set up an account even if you have current card. Just follow the prompts to do so.)    https://www.kingsoopers.com/topic/community-rewards-9

 3. Once you have your account set up you can simply search for Conifer High School or enter BM208 to choose the music program for your rewards. 

•Scrip Gift Card Program - shopwithscrip.com -  Merchants, Restaurants, Home Improvement stores, Rental cars, and many other services support this program. A percentage of your purchase will generate a donation to the CHS Instrumental Music Program.  NOTE:  At this time CHSIMB does not support physical gift cards with this program. 

 Share these fundraising opportunities with friends, family, neighbors and coworkers!