Help Our School Raise Money

With Search and Give and your help, our Become a supporter today! Just school can raise money just by searching follow these 3 easy steps: the Web. • Visit www.searchandgive.com and Our school is participating in Search and Give, an click on “Sign In.” exciting new program sponsored by Microsoft and supported by Scholastic. Search and Give is powered by • Sign up for a Windows Live™ ID Live Search from Microsoft®, a simple and innovative and select our school on the search engine that can help us earn money for the My Charity Settings page. supplies and equipment our school needs. • Search the Internet using It’s FREE www.searchandgive.com. There is no fee to enroll and participation is completely voluntary. It does not cost our school or our supporters anything to participate and there are no hidden commitments.

It’s AUTOMATIC Supporters can quickly and easily sign up online. Once they’re signed up, each time a supporter uses www.searchandgive.com to search the Internet, Microsoft will donate a ticket to our school’s account*. Microsoft handles all program administration, including automatic ticket redemption. Near the end of the school year, these tickets will be converted to cash and our school will receive a check from Microsoft.

It’s REWARDING The money our school earns can be used to purchase classroom supplies, computers, printers, video equipment, and more. The more supporters we have, the more money we can raise!

Help our school spread the word about this program. Contact our Program Coordinator, ______, at ______.

©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Search and Give, and the Windows Live Flag Logo Button are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. *Each supporter can earn a maximum of 10 tickets per day for searches on www.searchandgive.com, and each ticket from those searches will result in a one- penny donation by Microsoft. Help Support Our School! Every Supporter Counts! With Search and Give, you can help our school raise money just by searching the Web. The more active supporters we have, the more money we get! Microsoft and Scholastic have teamed up to present Search In just one year*, our school and Give, an innovative and automatic way for our school to could earn enough money to raise funds. Anyone who searches the Internet can quickly sign buy… up online to become a supporter. Internet searches by our school’s supporters on www.searchandgive.com will generate • 100 Books a Microsoft donation to our school. with 25 supporters

Best of all, it’s FREE. There is no cost to our school or our • 6 Digital Cameras supporters and there are no hidden commitments. Participation with 50 supporters is completely voluntary. Microsoft handles all program administration, including automatic ticket redemption. • 4 Video Projectors with 100 supporters Become a supporter today! Sign-up is simple with these 3 easy steps: • A New Computer Lab  Visit www.searchandgive.com and with 500 supporters click on “Sign In.”  Sign up for a Windows Live™ ID and select our school on the My Charity Settings page.  Search the Internet using www.searchandgive.com.

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©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Search and Give, and the Windows Live Flag Logo Button are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. *Each supporter can earn a maximum of 10 tickets per day for searches on www.searchandgive.com, and each ticket from those searches will result in a one-penny donation by Microsoft. Maximum amount earned based on full daily activity by each supporter, and program remaining available for a full calendar year after supporter sign-up. Photo: © Jamie Grill/Tetra Images/Getty Images. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

School Contact Information: Our School Name: ______Contact Name: ______Phone #: ______Email: ______Date: ______

With Microsoft’s Search and Give program, our school can raise money just by searching the Web.

______School is participating in an exciting new program to help earn money for classroom supplies and equipment. Search and Give is powered by Live Search from Microsoft®, a simple and innovative search engine that allows supporters to earn money for our school.

Through Search and Give, Microsoft brings schools, parents, communities, and corporations together to provide students and teachers with the resources that they need.

With the Search and Give program, anyone who searches the Internet can become a supporter by signing up online at www.searchandgive.com. Each time a registered supporter conducts a search on www.searchandgive.com, Microsoft will donate a ticket* to our school’s account. Near the end of the school year, our school’s tickets will be converted to cash, and our school will receive a check from Microsoft in the mail.

Enrollment is FREE; there is no cost to our school or our supporters and there are no hidden commitments. The more supporters our school has, and the more searches they do, the more money our school will earn. It’s simple, automatic, and rewarding!

Anyone who is interested in learning more about Search and Give can visit www.scholastic.com/searchandgive or contact our school at ______.

©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Search and Give, and the Windows Live Flag Logo Button are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. *Each supporter can earn a maximum of 10 tickets per day for searches on www.searchandgive.com, and each ticket from those searches will result in a one- penny donation by Microsoft. SAMPLE EMAIL

[SUBJECT LINE] Help Our School Earn Money!

[MAIN TEXT] Dear [Insert Recipient Name],

Our school [Insert School name] is participating in Search and Give, an exciting new fundraising program presented by Microsoft and Scholastic! Through this program, each time you search the web, you earn money for our school.

It’s FREE and EASY – here’s how to sign up:  Visit www.searchandgive.com and click on “Sign In.”  Sign up for a Windows Live ID and search for [Insert school name] on the My Charity Settings page.  Use www.searchandgive.com to search the web!

Each time you use www.searchandgive.com to search the Internet, Microsoft will donate one ticket to our school’s account. Near the end of the school year, these tickets will be converted to cash, and Microsoft will send a check directly to our school.

Help our school get what we need for the classroom. Search and Give today!

Sincerely, [Insert name] Search and Give Coordinator [Insert school name]