Hello,
Responding to COVID-19 (Fourth Wave)
By now you may have heard the news that Food Banks across Canada and the USA are breaking records this fall for the number of visits since the pandemic began.
In response to this news, we have already poured over 2,500 soap bars last month for Food Banks that will be ready to be packed and shipped out across Prince Edward Island, the rest of Canada, and the USA, starting on December 11th. As this newsletter is being typed this evening, we are sitting around our dining room table working on scheduling additional potential soap pouring days in mid-December depending on how much interest there is for our second Soap for Food Banks project. While the first batch of 2,500 soap bars will be ready to ship out stating on December 11th, any additional soap bars will be ready to ship out to Food Banks across Canada and the USA 30 days after that but we could use your support now.
First, a bit of background. On April 11th, 2020, we launched our first-ever Soap for Food Bank project. Our initial goal was to send 3,000 bars of 100% Natural Unscented Soap to Food Banks throughout Canada and the USA. The 3,000 soap bars would include 1,510 soap bars to be donated entirely by The Great Canadian Soap Co. to all of the registered non-profit Food Banks throughout Prince Edward Island to ensure that every family that those Food Banks served would receive a bar of soap. Through the tremendous support of our customers and friends, we far surpassed our 3,000 soap bar goal and sent 8,610 soap bars in total for that initial Soap for Food Banks project.
If you would like a quick summary of how that original project went, you can read the final summary email that we sent out when the Soap for Food Banks project ended on June 17th, 2020 by Clicking Here. If you would like, you can read all six of the emails we had sent out to people by clicking here:
If you would like to help us directly, you can purchase a box of 50 soap bars right now for $50 for a Food Bank in Prince Edward Island or $60 for a Food Bank within the rest of Canada or in the USA and choose the Food Bank it will be delivered to. We'll make the soap, label the soap, pack the soap, and ship the soap directly to the Food Bank of your choice. We'll even provide the tracking number link (so you can track it in transit) by email the moment it has been shipped and update you with another email the day it has been received. Food Banks in Prince Edward Island will have the soap delivered to them by us personally and not through couriers. There are more details as well as step-by-step instructions below on what you will need to do.
If you are not able to purchase a box of soap from us for a Food Bank at this time, we do understand and we want you to know we have you covered. Your past support of our family farm business is truly appreciated and has already been enough so you should feel represented in our company's donation of 1,510 bars of soap with a total retail value of $8,682.50 (1,510 x $5.75) as listed below. Our goal is to ship a total of 3,010 bars of soap with a total retail value of $17,307.50 (3,010 x $5.75). We have previously contacted all 6 registered Food Banks on Prince Edward Island and our business will be donating soap to them based on how many families they have told us that typically help on a monthly basis. Here is what our company will be donating immediately:
West Prince Caring Cupboard, Alberton, PEI
200 soap bars for 200 families.
Salvation Army Food Bank, Summerside, PEI
360 soap bars for 360 families.
Upper Room Food Bank, Charlottetown, PEI
540 soap bars for 540 families.
Salvation Army, Charlottetown, PEI
140 soap bars for 140 families.
Southern Kings and Queens Food Bank, Montague, PEI
200 soap bars for 200 families.
Souris Food Bank, Souris, PEI
70 soap bars for 70 families.
In an effort to get the above soap bars to the Food Banks on PEI as soon as possible, we may be sending them a small amount of scented bars. However, the soap bars for Food Banks across the rest of Canada and in the USA will all be unscented.
Finally, while speaking to the representatives at the Food Banks, we learned that some of them are purchasing soap for their clients because soap donations are in very short supply. At the very least, our collective contributions to them will allow them to use a small portion of their donated funds to purchase something else they may need instead.
Thank you from everyone here at The Great Canadian Soap Co.
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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
(This is a 50 x $5.75 = $287.50 retail value. Shipping is free with FOODBANK coupon code. Applicable tax is extra. While supplies last. Other conditions apply.)
CANADA
(This is a 50 x $5.75 = $287.50 retail value. Shipping is free with FOODBANK coupon code. Applicable tax is extra. While supplies last. Other conditions apply.)
U.S.A.
(This is a 50 x $5.75 = $287.50 retail value. Shipping is free with FOODBANK coupon code. While supplies last. Other conditions apply.)
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HOW TO BUY A BOX OF 50 BARS OF SOAP FOR A FOOD BANK IN YOUR COMMUNITY FOR $50 or $60
Disclaimer: We are not a registered charity and are not asking for or taking donations from anyone. What we are doing is making available a very special soap offer at an extremely reduced price that you can purchase for a registered non-profit Food Bank of your choice in Canada or the USA. Because of this arrangement, there will not be any charity or donation receipts provided. With respect to money, the way we are attempting to do this is similar (we believe) to an informal donation bin that some grocery stores install inside their store. You pay for the groceries at the register as you regularly would and then just deposit the food in the bin which the grocery store then delivers to the Food Bank.
Conditions: While we didn't have any significant issues with our original Soap for Food Banks project, these types of projects are still relatively new for us. As a result, we reserve the right to clarify or change the terms of this promotion at any time, as well as temporarily suspend or permanently end this promotion at any time. We ask now for your both patience and understanding in advance if and when we do. The following conditions are subject to change without notice at our sole discretion.
- This Food Bank offer can not be combined with any other coupon code, discount, or any other offer of any type.
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Between the soap our company is donating and the soap our customers are purchasing for Food Banks across Canada and the USA, we will be ending this promotion when a total of 3,010 bars of soap have been allocated. At that time, we will remove the 50 Bars of Soap for a Food Bank product from our website listing and disable the free shipping FOODBANK coupon code. At our discretion, we may continue this project beyond the 3,000 soap bars for a short time.
- If you would like us to choose a Food Bank for you and don't have a specific one in mind, you can just say in the Order Comments section when checking out something like, "Any Food Bank in Calgary" or "Any Food Bank in Nova Scotia" etc. and we will find one for you.
- If you would like to choose a specific Food Bank that you would like to help, please provide the name, address, and phone number of the Food Bank in the Ship To area of the checkout form. We can not ship to you directly and will only ship the soap to the Food Bank.
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In Canada, you can locate a Food Bank of your choice by visiting this national representative organization: Food Banks Canada. In the USA, a reputable portal is Feeding America.
- We must be able to easily determine that the Food Bank is a registered non-profit or charitable organization and is currently actively engaged in being a Food Bank. If we can not, we will email you and request that you provide a link to their website that shows they are. While there are many other types of charities and non-profit organizations that do vital work, at this time only registered non-profit or charitable organizations that are currently actively engaged in being a Food Bank are eligible to receive soap through our Soap for Food Bank project.
- You may purchase more than one box of soap to send to a particular Food Bank. You may also make multiple individual purchases of boxes to be sent to more than one Food Bank. In either case, we do reserve the right to limit quantities or to refund orders that are over our total soap allocation limit.
- No other items except the boxes of soap specifically allocated for Food Banks in Canada or the USA can be added to the order or sent with those special boxes of soap to a Food Bank.
- We reserve the right to refund orders that are simply too costly for us to ship (for example, very rural or very isolated or very northern areas, etc.)
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Your invoice will not be included with the order going to the Food Bank nor will any of your personal billing information. Unless you request to remain anonymous in the Order Comments section when completing your order, we will include a nice letter with the shipment to let the Food Bank know your name, city, and province or state only (not your address or other contact information though) and that you have purchased this box of soap for them. For example, the only personal information we will include will be limited to something like: "We would like you to know that Jane Smith from Mississauga, Ontario, who is a special customer of ours, has generously purchased this box of soap for you to distribute to some of the families you help."
- If more than one person is sending a box of soap to the same Food Bank, we will pack the boxes separately and include separate notes in each of them of who they are from but we will send them as one shipment in order to save courier costs.
FOODBANK
Follow 3 simple steps to send 50 Bars of Soap to a Food Bank in Canada or the USA:
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2) Enter the coupon code FOODBANK when you check out and then click the APPLY button. Please see the screenshot example below for where to enter the coupon code.
When you have completed your online order and are on the first checkout screen where all of the products in your shopping cart are shown, simply enter the coupon code listed above (please use only capital letters and no spaces for the code) in the text box following the words "Coupon Code? Enter it here:", then click the APPLY button. Be sure to use all capital letters and no spaces when entering the coupon code. Your shopping cart total must contain at least one of the special soap boxes for a Food Bank in order for the coupon code to work which will then automatically add a special Free Shipping choice to the shipping options.
3) Click on "PROCEED TO CHECKOUT" or "PayPal Check out" and continue with payment information.
Note: We want your ordering experience to be as quick and easy as possible. If you have any trouble getting the coupon code to work when placing your order online, you have the option of simply listing the coupon code in the Order Comments section during the checkout process. When we see the coupon code in the Order Comments section, we will then refund the shipping amount back to your credit card or through PayPal and send you an email confirmation of the transaction. You are also welcome to place a telephone order with us if that would be easier for you. We are open 7 days a week from 9:00am until 5:00pm AST.
While we didn't have any significant issues with our original Soap for Food Banks project, these types of projects are still relatively new for us. As a result, we reserve the right to clarify or change the terms of this promotion at any time, as well as temporarily suspend or permanently end this promotion at any time. We ask now for your both patience and understanding in advance if and when we do.
