Updates
Walmart and Sam’s Club Gift Cards are Interchangeable
April 29, 2026
Walmart gift cards and Sam’s Club gift cards are interchangeable. Meaning you can use a Walmart gift card at Sam’s Club and a Sam’s Club gift card at Walmart. NOTE ON USING WALMART PAY APP: Recently, we found out that you cannot use the Walmart Pay app on your smart phone for purchases at Sam’s
Donate Those Leftover Low Balance Visa Cards
April 29, 2026
A great way to use up those leftover low-balance Visa debit cards is to donate the remaining balances, like $2, $4.52, $9.56, $12.18, etc., to a good cause. Obviously, a good choice would be to donate the remaining balance to the Gene Grawe Fund’s general fund using the Donate button at the top of our
Traveling to Grandma’s house for the holidays?
April 29, 2026
Use gift cards from RaiseRight​.​com and the Gene Grawe Fund to book your flights, hotels, and rental cars. If you’re road tripping to Grandma’s house, be sure to grab gift cards for gas stations that you can register and reload along the way. And don’t forget about meals at favorite restaurants to, from, and even
Categories: Tips
Send an eGift card to someone special.
April 29, 2026
Perfect for last-minute gifting—you can send an eGift card immediately or schedule it for later delivery on a future date like Christmas, Easter, a birthday, or any special occasion. Login to your RaiseRight​.​com account, shop for and select any eGift card you wish to send and then click on Send As a Gift by Email.
Categories: RaiseRight.com TipsTips
Three Ways to Designate Your Gift Card Purchase
April 29, 2026
You can designate the earnings from your gift card purchases to go to one of three places. 1. Individual student. Your earnings are applied directly to the tuition account for this student. 2. One of the 5 Quincy Catholic schools: Blessed Sacrament, St Dominic, St Francis, St Peter, or QND. Your earnings are donated to
It’s bad enough when your premiums go up, but it’s even worse when you can’t use GGF funds to pay the premium!
April 29, 2026
Previously, State Farm auto insurance customers were out of luck if their semi-annual premium payment was over $500, which is the largest denomination Visa debit card available for purchase through the Gene Grawe Fund. State Farm limited a customer to only one payment method for the full amount of the premium amount due. Some GGF
Categories: Tips
Keep A Small Amazon Gift Card Balance to Pay for Prime Movie Rentals
April 29, 2026
Maintain a small Amazon.com gift card balance to pay for late night movie rentals on Amazon Prime. Buy an Amazon.com gift card from the Gene Grawe Fund and load its balance into your Amazon gift card account. You can even scan the Claim Code with your smartphone’s Amazon App. Then try to remember to not
Categories: Tips
Don’t Run Down VISA’s Too Low
April 29, 2026
Visa prepaid debit cards are much harder to empty online when their balance of available funds is below $5.00. More and more we’re running into websites where they impose a minimum allowable payment. Some minimum payment thresholds go as low as $1 while $5 seems to be the upper end right now. I recently painted
Categories: Five Back VisaTips
Why I Volunteer with the Gene Grawe Fund
April 15, 2026
Like many children in the 1950s and 60s, I grew up poor in a medium-sized, single-parent family on Quincy’s northwest side. Being from a strict Catholic background going back many generations, all of us kids attended St. John the Baptist Elementary School. We all went from Kindergarten through 8th grade there with the hopes of
Categories: Volunteers
