Fundraising

The greatest challenge we face as a school community is acquiring the funds necessary to match our ambitions for Terrace Community Middle School.

The school was created to encourage the dreams of our students and we want offer them every available tool to fulfill these goals: first-class teachers, state of the art technology, enriching field trips and a host of the most recent education resources...and just as our students have goals, it is our goal as educators that a lack of funding will never become an obstacle to realizing our mission.

TCMS TRAVEL…please remember whenever you are making travel plans, or sending flowers, to use TCMS Travel. Search www.ytbtravel.com/tcmstornadoes for the best and least expensive flight reservations and hotel rooms!

Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they'll donate about a penny to your favorite cause every time you do a search!

In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 900 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to the charity or school of your choice. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to your cause!

The Annual Back to Basics Bash has consistently been a wonderful fundraiser and it is usually held in the spring of each school year. The 2009-2010 Back to Basics Bash "Mardi Gras Magic" was held on school grounds , and raised over $57,000. Thanks to all who participated in making this event so successful.

Team Tornado - As Terrace Community Middle School begins its 13th (2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR) year of educating middle-school students in Hillsborough County, we ask you to participate in our fall fundraiser, TEAM TORNADO. Simply make a tax-deductible donation by cash or check of any amount you are able to give. Your donation is extremely important.

The School Store is another fundraiser that, again, helps our students. The School Store is a PRA project. Parent volunteers man the store during lunch periods. The profits from the School Store are then spent directly on the students (i.e., special lunches during ice-cream socials, field trip scholarships, etc.) and to replenish supplies for the store.

Box Tops for Education - Send your Box Tops in an envelope or baggie with your child's name and homeroom. Prizes will be awarded each month for the homeroom with the most submissions. A similar program is also underway with Campbell's labels. Each homeroom rep will be collecting them and placing them in the collection containers in the lunchroom. Check your pantry and start clipping! Box Tops now appear on over double the products from last year. For holiday shopping, be sure to do your online shopping through the boxtops4education.com site. There are over 100 participating stores where up to 10% of your purchase will go to our school.

Campbell's Soup Labels for Education - The Campbell's Company and their affiliates continue to sponsor their Labels for Education Program. Visit their website by clicking on the link above to see which products participate in the program! This is FREE money for our school!

Target Stores Partnership – Every customer who uses a Target charge card at Target Stores can donate 1% of the sale to Terrace Community Middle School. In order to participate, please fill out a Target charge application and use the following number to identify that 1% of your purchase should be directed to TCMS: 111558. If you already have a Target charge card and would like to contribute, please call 1-800-316-6142 and give them the same account number. Target will send the donations to the school in November and February of each school year.

Please visit the Development page of our website to see other ways in which you can help!