PaceButler
Have you ever wandered what to do with your used cell phone instead of giving it back to the company? Well, because of the PaceButler Corporation, you can turn those phones into cash for your school. The PaceButler Corporation turns used cell phones into a fundraising opportunity for schools across the nation. When CEO Tom Pace (author of new book release Mentor: The Kid & The CEO) found out that the average family household had five to six extra cell phones lying in their drawers, he saw an opportunity to help raise funds for various organizations. Since PaceButler was founded in 1987, it has worked with more than 30,000 clients.
www.pacebutler.com
EZSchoolPay.com from eTritionWare
eTritionWare, a leading provider of child nutrition accountability systems, announces EZSchoolPay.com, an online payment service for parents. It allows parents to make payments to their child’s school meal account or to pay for other school-related fees as defined by the school. There are numerous benefits for school administrators. It’s free; there’s nothing to buy and no ongoing fees. It reduces cash handling and bad checks, while eliminating “lost” payments from students. It eliminates phone calls from parents, since they are able to check updated meal balances online. And, it can be used with the Meal Tracker cafeteria software or as a stand-alone product.
www.etritionware.net
Solution Tree
Publishing company Solution Tree recently released Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning. With contributions from leading experts, this anthology contains experiences and strategies focused on shattering antiquated ideas about assessment. Douglas Reeves, Rick Stiggins, Anne Davies, Robert Marzano, and Dylan Wiliam are among the international authors included. The anthology addresses challenges like assessing students with special needs. It also offers proven strategies like involving students in the assessment process. While the authors each present a unique perspective, they present a united front for the need to use assessment for ongoing guidance, not just a final grade.
www.solution-tree.com
SchoolDude’s UtilityDirect
Reduce skyrocketing energy costs with UtilityDirect, the on-demand utility management and reporting tool that audits, tracks and analyzes utility consumption and costs to identify savings. UtilityDirect tracks and monitors bills for electric, fuel oil, propane, water, natural gas, sewer, trash/waste, telephone and more. By tracking utility consumption and costs, UtilityDirect enables simple comparison and analysis of utility data, such as usage and cost comparisons between similar buildings. UtilityDirect also checks bills 15 different ways to identify usage and cost problems with the Savings Sniffer.
www.schooldude.com
Royal Basket Trucks
Royal Basket Trucks has been manufacturing cart solutions for material handling since 1981. Their canvas, vinyl and poly trucks and carts are utilized in schools, hotels, hospitals and nursing homes, athletic facilities, mail rooms, churches, and laundries. The Royal product line offers basket trucks and carts for use in general storage, as well as specialty carts for recycling and sorting. Basket trucks are available in heavy-duty white canvas or 12 colors of super-strong vinyl. The poly trucks offer a more durable molded tub on the same unique hardwood base. All trucks and carts utilize non-marking polyurethane casters. Various sizes are available.
www.royal-basket.com
Bill of Rights Institute’s Constitutional Academy
Rising juniors and seniors interested in the Constitution and the ideas of our Founders have the opportunity to apply for the Bill of Rights Institute’s Constitutional Academy. A five-day residential program held across the river from Washington, D.C., two sessions will be held in the summer of 2008 from July 13-19, 2008, and July 20-26, 2008. Students will have the opportunity to receive instruction from college professors, investigate historic sites around the D.C., debate important issues with their peers, and earn three units of college credit. The deadline to apply for the 2008 Constitutional Academy is March 1, 2008.
www.BillofRightsInstitute.org/Academy
EDIsecure Value Line DCP+ printers from Digital Identification Solutions
Digital Identification Solutions Group has disclosed the new generation of Value Line DCP+ printers, which are now considerably faster and have significantly improved cleaning systems. With the EDIsecure DCP 240+ Direct Card Printer, printing beautiful cards is now easier than ever. With its fast print speed (remarkable 160 full-color and up to 750 monochrome cards per hour), superb image quality and very user-friendly operation, it is ideal for issuing Photo IDs and loyalty cards. The double-sided EDIsecure DCP 340+ is the high performance Direct Card Printer for the growing needs of customers. It has now an extremely impressive print speed of up to 190 single-sided, full-color and up to 1,000 monochrome cards per hour.
www.digital-identification.com
Gold Medal Products
Gold Medal Products presents the El Nacho Grande Cheese Cup Warmer. This cheese warmer is economically priced and perfect for any location. This cheese cup warmer has a small imprint so it can fit virtually any place. Not only is it small, but there is no preparation or mess involved. Just store the portion pak cheese sauce in the warmer and display the portion pak chips on top of the warmer. After consumption, simply throw away. The convenience of this warmer is incomparable. It is UL listed and holds about 32 cups of portion pak cheese sauce. The classic snack item is ideal for any concession stand or food place.
www.gmpopcorn.com
Funds for Fun Program by BCI Burke
The Funds for Fun Program is BCI Burke’s answer for overwhelmed and overworked volunteers who help planners from schools raise money for play spaces. The exclusive fundraising program is not only easy to use, but is self-contained, professional and completely customizable to each group’s project. Burke’s Funds for Fun includes a Playkit that is provided at no cost to Burke customers after consulting with a friendly and knowledgeable Burke representative. The user-friendly document templates are accessible from the BCI Burke Web site. With just a few keystrokes, dynamic communication pieces are created with little time and effort—yet with big results. And, 100% of the proceeds are directed to the play space.
www.bciburke.com
Tree Classics
For more than 30 years in business and 12 years on the Web, Tree Classics has been a growing business with a reputation of high standards and customer satisfaction. They have more than 70 styles of pre-lit trees, wreaths, and garland. Their forest of sizes ranges from 4.5 feet to 40 feet to bring a warmth and radiance to your school. New this year is a beautiful Holy Family set for indoor/outdoor use as well as other holiday items. Their list of “Classy Clients” on their Web page reflects the diversity of customers from businesses large and small. Shipping is free, and their 5-year light warranty and 10-year tree warranty is outstanding.
www.treeclassics.com
Newstripe NewLiner
Newstripe’s improved NewLiner Heavy Duty dry line marking machines are ideal for lining athletic fields, running tracks, and golf course bounds...even parking areas for special events. The improved models now feature a convenient sight window in the frame, making it easier than ever to follow an existing line or layout line when striping. Built for long life, the 50 lb. and 100 lb. capacity NewLiner Heavy Duty models feature structural and galvanized steel components for strength and rust resistance. Newstripe also manufactures 12 models of paint striping machines, marking stencils and infield drags to professionally maintain any field.
www.newstripe.com
Fieldhouse
Fieldhouse Inc., a leading provider of fundraising and eCommerce services for schools, teams and leagues, camps, churches and non-profits, has announced the launch of a new online community-based fundraising service called Share and a major upgrade to its core eCommerce products. Share’s patent-pending technology includes a Donation Center for collecting and managing fundraising activities; a WebGram bulletin board for supporters to post messages, providing an additional fundraising source; and a powerful sponsorship program which taps local business partners.
www.fieldhouse.com
DPA 4080 Microphone
Combining exceptional audio quality and low visibility, DPA Microphones has announced the release of the DPA 4080 miniature cardioid lavalier microphone. The new 4080 combines optimal speech intelligibility with a discreet, compact design to create a high-performance lavalier microphone for live applications. Achieving maximum gain before feedback, the acoustically pre-equalized 4080 captures the human voice with an exceptionally high degree of definition, providing a very distinguishable and intelligible sound quality. The 4080 is a complete, integrated system combining microphone, windscreen, shock mount, and cable management lapel clip into a compact, elegant solution.
www.dpamicrophones.com
Virco’s Telos Furniture
The breakthrough Telos hard plastic classroom furniture collection by Virco provides schools with new levels of product performance. The seats, backs and work surfaces in Telos products are made from Virco’s proprietary Fortified Recycled Wood hard plastic. Furniture made with Fortified Recycled Wood is highly sustainable due to its long service life. And when ultimately withdrawn from service, Fortified Recycled Wood components are fully recyclable through Virco’s pioneering Take-Back Program that helps schools recycle out-of-service furniture. Virco can process Take-Back items and other post-consumer materials in its own factory for the Fortified Recycled Wood used in Telos products.
www.virco.com
Eartec’s Simultalk 24G Assistive Listening System
Your audience will hear you loud and clear! The Simultalk 24G Assistive Listening System is a new full duplex wireless designed for any environment where the audience may require hearing assistance. This affordable system allows an unlimited number of audience members to monitor the speaker with crystal clear reception. Low-profile headsets and small palm-sized transceivers are easy to use. The Simultalk system is a breakthrough because it operates without base stations or FCC license. A full line of heavy-duty and lightweight headsets are available.
www.eartec.com
GT Jams from GameTime
GT Jams are the newest way to add value to your playground. For the first time, children can create music on the playground with durable tonal and rhythmic instruments that inspire creativity. GT Jams encourage fellowship and cooperative play between children and are well suited for all ages and abilities. Add them to a traditional play system, or create a ground level grouping of instruments. Choose at least four GT Jams instruments, and you will also receive a copy of the GT Jams Playbook, a teaching tool that allows you use your instruments to teach age-appropriate activities based on the National Education Standards for Music and Physical Education.
www.gametime.com/gtjams
New Leasing Program from Carpenter Bus Sales
Since a growing number of customers are asking about leasing options, Carpenter Bus Sales has developed two Special Leasing Options: a new, 15-passenger bus at $599 a month (60 mo. lease; $3699 due at signing); and a new, 26-passenger bus at $799 a month (60 mo. lease; $3899 due at signing). According to Carpenter Bus President Henry Headden, “Our most popular buses are the 15-passenger and the 26-passenger buses, and more and more churches and schools are wanting to lease. This new program allows a greater number of churches to begin their transportation ministry without having to raise all their money upfront, and makes the monthly amount more affordable than purchasing a new bus.”
www.carpenterbus.com
Commercialite from McCourt
At roughly half the cost of traditional plastic folding tables, the Commercialite Folding Table is one of the strongest, lightest, most affordable indoor / outdoor folding tables on the market. Blow Mold technology allows McCourt to produce polyethylene plastic tops to resist heat, stains, chemicals and physical damage. Their U.S. Steel frame with wishbone folding leg system bolts through the table top, not just into it, allowing the Commercialite to support more than 3,500 pounds. A wide variety of sizes and options are available. Hundreds are sold daily to churches, schools, rental companies, conference centers, hotels, parks and private businesses.
www.mccourtmfg.com
Heavenly Wood
Heavenly Wood has announced the addition of five new podiums. One of these podiums, the Presidential Podium, is the crown jewel of the company's podium line and includes many features not available in most church furniture. All five new podiums are made from solid wood, are available in several different stains and are designed to in any church, business or school environment. The main goal of Heavenly Wood is to help people find good furniture without having to use valuable time and energy shopping from one location to another. Customers can select the color, style and fabric that will best match their already existing furniture and school color scheme.
www.heavenlywood.com
Sound-Craft WSV-50 Workstation
Sound-Craft Systems has released the latest addition to its growing lineup of Educator workstations and carts. It was designed to solve the dilemma of accommodating a wide variety of teaching styles. The WSV-50 features an integral vented equipment cabinet featuring a locking door and front-access panel, and it may be fitted with up to 16 rack unit rails or accessory rails. The cabinet work surface forms an ideal platform for document cameras, projectors, and other presentation equipment. Construction is of oak veneered MDF and is available in natural oak, dark oak, dark cherry stained oak, or black lacquer.
www.sound-craft.com
FSR’s MDC-MK4
The MDC-MK4 high performance down converter is now shipping from FSR. Designed to convert a high-resolution computer image to any television standard, the MDC-MK4 is perfect for church presentations, schools, and live events. With HD and computer input support, plus HD and standard definition output support, the MDC-MK4 is the cost-effective trans-coder for mixed format applications.
www.fsrinc.com
Star Building Systems
Star Building Systems was founded in 1927 and is a leader in the metal building industry with a reputation for performance and quality. From strong structural framing systems to walls, roofs and compatible accessories, Star offers beautiful solutions to your growing church’s needs. A Star building will meet your need for a multi-purpose facility, classrooms, or gymnasium. Each Star building is custom designed to meet your exact requirements. www.starbuildings.com
Boing Safety Padding from Phunzone
Phunzone has introduced Boing safety padding for all child play areas. It can be safely and easily attached to many different kinds of walls, corners or posts. Boing is available in seven bright colors. Boing padding is an excellent and affordable way to increase child safety and decrease your liability. Boing padding is a special “skin urethane” material, which has superior horizontal impact attenuation properties while providing a tough UV-treated outer protective skin. Phunzone is a national supplier of compact, high-capacity, indoor play structures for children.
www.phunzone.com
Hertz Presentation Cart
The new PRC-300 presentation cart provides on-the-go security with a built-in lockable storage box. It features adjustable tilt and height, and a 6-outlet power strip, at a price that cannot be beat. It is lightweight and ready roll. Other features include: upper platform adjusts from 34-44”H, lower platform adjusts from 28.5-38.5H”, and 3” heavy-duty casters (two locking).
www.hertzfurniture.com |
