From the first spade of soil turned nearly a decade ago, we have worked as a community, sweaty shoulder to sweaty shoulder, deepening and broadening the reach of Princeton School Gardens Cooperative programs to improve all children’s self-reliance, health and appreciation of the natural world through garden- and food-based education.
Now we can all do even more – while making everyday purchases around town.
Here’s how it works: Local businesses partner with Heartland Payment Systems, a Princeton-based company, to offer the OnePrinceton card, similar to a debit card. When you sign up for a free OnePrinceton membership (click here for information and to sign up), you link your membership to your own bank account. Then, you use the OnePrinceton card to buy goods and services, as you would a debit card.
The benefit comes next: OnePrinceton members choose a local nonprofit to receive a donation of 1 percent of the total pre-tax purchase from the member merchant, who in turn pays a smaller fee for this kind of transaction processing than he/she would for a credit card transaction.
One percent here, 1 percent there, and pretty soon, we have the funds for a class field trip, a school-wide tasting, a scholarship for a teacher, or for a chef to teach cooking classes at an after-school program.
Delicious, right?
Please consider signing up for a free membership with OnePrinceton.
And please do choose the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative as your beneficiary.