Coast RTA is a participant in the Food Lion Shop & Share Program. Ara Heinz, Grants/Procurement Specialist at The Coast RTA has requested support from HPC while shopping at Food Lion.

Coast RTA is eligible as a non-profit organization to participate in this program. The program works this way:

Food Lion offers MVP Cards to all customers. These cards allow the customers to receive savings on certain items in the store. Additionally, the cards can be tied to a non-profit agency as a fundraising effort. If the customer decides to link their MVP card with Coast RTA, each time that customer shops at Food Lion and uses their MVP card, a portion of the total grocery purchase will be donated to Coast. (Coast must have at least 25 MVP cards linked in order to participate.) At the end of each quarter, Food Lion will divide the funds proportionally among the Lion Shop & Share organizations (including educational, religious, and civic organizations) depending on their accumulated sales. Coast RTA is eligible to receive up to $350.00 per quarter ($1,400.00/year).

The money received from this program will be used as a form of local match. This “match” will be used to access the grant funding from the state and federal government. (Every little bit of local match helps!)

Feel free to pass this information along to friends, family, co-workers, associates, etc. They can stop by their local Food Lion and request a card or contact Felicia Beaty (Phone: (843) 488-0865 x 234), Coast RTA manager, who also has some on hand. For those who do not have a card, a form will need to be filled out with typical tracking info (name, address, phone number). Once this has been completed, or for people who already have an MVP card, they can link their cards to Coast RTA in 2 ways. They can go to the Food Lion website

to link the card. (Please make sure that they choose Coast RTA’s legal name, Waccamaw Regional Transportation Authority, from the list of organizations.) If people have problems accessing this site, or prefer for someone else to link their card, please do not hesitate to send their information on to Ara at:

The following is a copy of the Shop & Share form for your reference. Please note that the form asks for the 12 digits listed on the MVP card. This includes the digits at the beginning and the end of the bar code that are shown in smaller font.

This form is to be used for registering members’ MVP cards.
Customer Sign Up:
MVP Card # (12 digits) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
First Name __________________ MI ____
Last Name __________________________________
Day phone ( ) _____________________________
List name and address of charity you wish to support
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
Customer Sign Up:
MVP Card # (12 digits) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
First Name __________________ MI ____
Last Name ________________________________
Day phone ( ) ______________________
List name and address of charity you wish to support
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
Customer Sign Up:
MVP Card # (12 digits) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
First Name __________________ MI ____
Last Name __________________________________
Day phone ( ) _____________________________
List name and address of charity you wish to support
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
Customer

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm and is filed under Communications.