Schools

Local Schools Will Benefit by Borders Purchases This Weekend

Buy something at the bookstore Saturday or Sunday and you can direct $15 to a Novato school.

If you're doing some holiday shopping this weekend and plan to swing into a bookstore, you'll have an opportunity to help a Novato school as you find that gift.

Borders is giving $15 via donorschoose.org to everyone who makes any in-store purchase this weekend. Make any type of in-store purchase at any Borders location — must be an in-store purchase, so the one on West Francisco Boulevard in San Rafael would be the closest for Novato residents — then take your receipt/certificate and log on to the Internet-based schools charity donorschoose.org.

Enter your zip code and select from a list of schools in your area, and that school gets a $15 gift card, thanks to you.  The best part of all is the purchase can be any amount, you can even buy a cookie from the in-house coffee stand at Borders and be able to make a $15 donation to your school through donroschoose.org.

Anyone purchasing the book, "Waiting for 'Superman': How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools'' receives a second $15 card, as the publishers are part of this one-weekend-only promotion.


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