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The Eagle Fund is Athens Christian School’s unrestricted annual giving campaign that equips our school for continued success in both academics and athletics. These vital funds support the development of innovative programs and enhance existing courses through cutting-edge technology and resources. Every Eagle Fund gift goes directly toward enriching the student experience at Athens Christian.

The GOAL program is a simple and impactful way to support Athens Christian School—without any long-term out-of-pocket expense. Through GOAL, donors can redirect a portion of their Georgia state income tax to ACS, providing scholarship opportunities for students who otherwise may not be able to attend.

Over 50% of our current students benefit directly from GOAL scholarships each year—and you can be part of their success story. As a GOAL participant, you estimate and prepay your Georgia income tax, then receive a dollar-for-dollar state tax credit on your next return.

The best part? Every dollar you contribute through GOAL goes directly to student scholarships at ACS.

On May 22, 2019, Athens Christian School lost our longest serving faculty member, Mrs. Betty Stone Weatherly. Mrs.Weatherly touched the lives of thousands of students and families over the course of her 47 years of service here at ACS.

Miss Betty Stone came to ACS in 1971 to teach Math, and that she did  so until the last week of January, 2019, when she was diagnosed with leukemia. She battled that insidious disease at Northside Hospital, and with God's healing Hand, she had gone into remission and was scheduled to go home just two days before her death. Then, quite unexpectedly, Mrs.Weatherly suffered a traumatic brain bleed which immediately took her life. While Heaven is rejoicing, we are acutely aware of our own personal loss.

Mrs.Weatherly's family has established the Betty Stone Weatherly Memorial Scholarship Fund to honor her life in a meaningful, beneficial way. They have established this scholarship as a matching-gift opportunity which will double your gift and have twice the impact on qualified existing and future ACS students, with the following purposes:

• to honor ACS for its educational ministry through the years and for providing Miss Betty the opportunity and Christian environment to teach you and your children;
• to provide a financial benefit for qualifying students and families like yours;
• and to give glory to a very gracious God who gifted Mrs. Weatherly with the genuine love of teaching, her natural loving kindness toward her students, her wonderful mathematical mind, and her deep love for Jesus.

It is very likely that Mrs. Weatherly taught you, your children, or even your grandchildren over the course of her 47 years at ACS.

What a tremendous way to express your gratitude for the countless hours Mrs.Weatherly spent teaching us so many things about God and life, besides just Math. Your gift to the Betty Stone Weatherly Memorial Scholarship Fund can be in the form of cash, check, gift-in-kind, stocks or bonds, or you can donate online by clicking below. Your gift is 100% tax-deductible.

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• Publix Partners Supporters - Your school will receive a check up to four times a year based on minimum earnings of $250 per quarter. If your school does not earn $250 in a quarter, any funds accrued will carry over to the next quarter.
• Box Tops for Education - Download Boxtop app to scan in your receipts each time you shop in order for ACS to receive funds.
• Good Shop - (enter Athens Christian School for "who you support") and you help ACS everytime you shop.
• Office Depot - 5% Back to Schools Program.  Support ACS by making purchases from Office Depot.  Find out more at www.school.com  and click on the 5% Back to Schools Program link. Use the Program ID number 70024619 and ACS gets 5% back!
• Amazon Smile - Do you shop on Amazon? When you shop at smile.amazon.com,  Amazon will donate to ACS, at no cost to you, 0.5% of your eligible purchases. Choose Athens Christian School as your charitable organization and every time you shop at Amazon do not forget to put smile.amazon.com as the website for ACS to receive the donation. To keep AmazonSmile active on mobile apps, you must renew it twice a year. Click here to learn more about renewing AmazonSmile.
• Kroger Community Rewards - Thanks to our ACS parents that participate in the Kroger Community Rewards Program.  We received over $1000 last year from this program.  Please visit Kroger Community Rewards to enroll, be sure to have your Kroger Plus card handy and register your card with your organization after you sign up.  To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see your organization's name on the right side of your information page.  Please remember you must swipe your registered Kroger Plus card or use the phone number that is related to your registered Kroger Plus card when shopping for each purchase to count.
• Ingles - School ID #11841. Link your card so you can support ACS every time you shop. Just link your card and every time you swipe your card when you shop the school benefits.  It's easy!  Click HERE to link your card.

FINANCIAL GIFTS

While cash and pledges are the most common methods for giving, the following gift options are also available, and many offer considerable tax benefits:

• Appreciated Securities – Giving stocks and bonds that have been held for more than one year provide even greater tax benefits than giving cash. If the appreciated security is given to a qualified charitable organization, such as Athens Christian School, the donor avoids capital gains tax and most likely will qualify for a tax deduction on the entire value of the charitable gift.  The simplest way to transfer securities is to have your broker contact the School Office.
• Life Insurance Gift – Give a life insurance policy with Athens Christian School as owner and beneficiary.
• Estate – Leave a legacy by making a gift in your will to Athens Christian School.  A bequest is one of the simplest ways to remember those you care about most.

OTHER WAYS TO HELP ACS

Athens Christian School is a private, non-profit, 501-c3 corporation which is not supported by church funds or government funds.  We set our tuition and fees to an affordable level so that we can serve as many families as possible. For example, this includes capping tuition to 2 and ½ students for larger families.
 
We have a wonderful group of faculty and staff with great ideas for improving the educational and extra-curricular opportunities that we can offer at ACS. We invite you to become more involved as the Lord has blessed you. We encourage your support for building projects, to purchase equipment, and to support operations.  Your gifts are tax deductible as allowed for 501-c3 organization. Many companies and businesses have matching giving programs for qualified organizations. This is an excellent way to multiply your giving.
 
We are happy to help with documentation for these matching funds.