September 2015 Dear McKean Elementary Parents/Guardians: Our PTA is budgeted for $19,500 in educational supplies, activities, programs and field trips for the 2015-2016 school year. This figures out to be approximately $60 per student. In order to raise that large amount, the PTA Fundraising Committee gives our students families a variety of options to choose from to help support our students and school. REMEMBER- YOU CHOOSE WHICH PROGRAMS YOU WANT TO SUPPORT! SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS THIS YEAR: 1. Save Around Books- Beginning of the school year 2. Pies - Fall 3. Big G Box Tops- Clip and send into the school 4. Reading for Education 5. Terracycle Juice Pouch Recycling 6. Family Fun Night- January 7. Tyson A+ Labels- found on all Tyson products- clip & send in to the school 8. GFS Foods 9. Giant Eagle Apples for Student 10. Targets Take Charge of Education 11. Campbell s Labels for Education 12. Shoparoo app 13. Amazon Smile program- smile.amazon.com (all the same products and prices; the PTA receives a donation from Amazon) 14. Great Lakes Scrip Program 15. Recycle your old toner cartridges at the school. We recycle these at Staples for supplies and paper. If you have any questions about our fundraising or would like to help please email us at mckeanpta@gmail.com. Thank you for helping the PTA support your school! Tracy Stanley McKean PTA President
How To Earn. Its as easy as 1, 2, 3 1. CLIP Participating Product UPCs and beverage/sauce caps 2. GIVE To Your School s Coordinator 3. EARN 4. FREE Educational Merchandise Another Way To Earn 1. REGISTER Visit elabelsforeducation.com to register and learn more. 2. SHOP. SWIPE. EARN. Purchase a participating product using your frequent 3. shopper card, and automatically earn 1 point for your school s Labels for Education account. 4. REDEEM Your school can redeem points for FREE educational merchandise!
* Remember, you can still clip and redeem UPCs to earn face value of Labels for Education points to earn even more free stuff for your school. How TerraCycle Works TerraCycle is on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating waste collection programs (each one is called a Brigade ) for previously non-recyclable, or difficult-to-recycle, waste. The collected waste is then converted into new products, ranging from recycled park benches to upcycled backpacks. Drink Pouch Brigade accepted waste spouts Aluminum and plastic drink pouches (no need to remove the straws), Drink pouches with.collect and Send- Bring the drink pouches to the school. We collect them in the Cafeteria and Writing Center. We send the collected items to earn points with Terracycle. Points transfer into cash. Solve and Benefit -TerraCycle s team of scientists and designers have found ways to recycle and upcycle the waste we collect into cool new products. When they upcycle a piece of waste they leverage both the material it is made from and the original shape of the waste. When they recycle they transform the collected waste into new products through a variety of processes like injection molding. Best of all, when you're done with a TerraCycle product you can put it back in the original Brigade collection program and get credit for the waste a second time.
How Box Tops Works 1. Find Box Tops on hundreds of products. (LISTED BELOW) 2. Clip Box Tops from each package. 3. Send the Box Tops to your school. 4. Box Tops are each worth 10 for your school. 5. Our box tops Coordinator will collect all the box tops and send them in so our school can get cash. Checks are mailed to our school twice a year. APPAREL Hanes boys /girls underwear, socks, printed shirts/sweatshirts specially marked Men s and Women s underwear and socks bonus packs BAKING & BAKEWARE Betty Crocker Baking & Cake Mixes, Brownies & Dessert Mixes, Complete Pancake, Create n Bake Cookies, Frosting, FUN da-middles, Gluten Free Mixes, Muffin & Cookie Mixes, Pizza Crust Mix Bisquick Fiber One Mixes Gold Medal Flour Reynolds Genuine Parchment Paper, Non-Stick Baking Pans & Staybright Baking Cups CEREAL Basic 4 Cascadian Farm Cascadian Farm Protein Granola Cheerios Chex Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cocoa Puffs Cookie Crisp Fiber One Gluten Free Chex Oatmeal Golden Grahams Honey Nut Clusters Kix Lucky Charms Nature Valley Protein Crunchy Granola Oatmeal Crisp Raisin Nut Bran Reese s Puffs Total Trix Wheaties PRODUCE Green Giant Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Fruit, Fresh Herbs FOOD STORAGE Ziploc brand Big Bags XL (4 ct.), Freezer Bags, Smart Snap Containers, Storage Bags, Twist n Loc Containers, VersaGlass Containers, Vacuum Freezer System, Zip n Steam Bags FROZEN Green Giant Vegetables Pillsbury Breakfast items Old El Paso Frozen Entrees Totino s Party Pizza & Pizza Rolls Snacks Yoplait Frozen Yogurt Bars Yoplait Frozen Yogurt Original and Greek Pints Yoplait Smoothies and Greek Smoothies MEALS & SIDES Betty Crocker Bowl Appetit, Hamburger, Chicken & Tuna Helpers, Helper Complete Meals, Mac & Cheese, Specialty Potatoes & Potato Buds, Suddenly Salad Green Giant Canned Vegetables & Veggie Blend-Ins Old El Paso Dinner Kits, Bowls, Rice & Beans, Shells & Seasonings Progresso Panko, Bread Crumb Mixers, Recipe Starters, Soup & Broth PAPER PRODUCTS Kleenex Facial Tissues Scott Bath Tissue, Paper Towels, Flushable Cleansing Cloths SCHOOL & OFFICE SUPPLIES Boise Polaris Paper REFRIGERATED & DAIRY Alpine Lace Pre-Sliced Deli Cheese Horizon Organic Milk: Kozy Shack Pudding Land O Lakes Cheese Products Land O Lakes Fresh Buttery Taste Spread (Sticks and tubs) Margarine (Sticks and Tubs), Sauté Express Sauté Starter, Stick Butter or Spreadable Butter Products Pillsbury Crescents, Grands! Biscuits, Pizza Crust, Melts, Cookies Cinnamon Rolls & Pancake Batter Yoplait TABLEWARE Hefty Deluxe Plates and Platters Hefty Easy Grip Cups Hefty Everyday Cups, Soak Proof Plates and Bowls Hefty Printed Cups, Style Plates Kleenex Dinner Napkins (50 ct.) SNACKS & JUICES Betty Crocker Fruit Flavored Snacks Bugles Cascadian Farm Granola Bars Cereal Treat Bars Cheerios Snack Mix Chex Mix Fiber One Bars, Brownies, Cookies & Streusel Food Should Taste Good Tortilla & Kettle Cooked Chips, & Pita Puffs Gardetto s Snacks Green Giant Veggie Snack Chips LARABAR (multipacks) ALT, über Larabar RENOLA Grain Free Granola Mott s Applesauce products Mott s Juice Mott s Medleys Fruit Flavored Snacks Nature Valley Bars Pillsbury Baguette Chips Ocean Spray Fruit Flavored Snacks WASTE BAGS Hefty Trash Bags
We re pleased to share some exciting news about a new fundraising program for our organization. It s called scrip, and it s the fundraising program that works while you shop. Scrip is simply a word that means substitute money in other words, scrip is gift certificates from national and local retailers. They re the same gift certificates that you buy at the store. Many popular retailers participate in our scrip program including JCPenney, The Gap, Shell, Pizza Hut, Red Lobster and many, many others. You re probably asking yourself how these stores help us raise money. It s simple - - scrip participating retailers agree to sell gift certificates to our organization at a discount. Member families like yours buy the certificates for full face value, they redeem them for full face value, and our school keeps the difference as revenue. And scrip is exciting, because everybody wins: The retailer gets cash up front and repeat business You get a powerful fundraising alternative that involves no selling Our school gets a regular source of revenue. The beauty of scrip is that you put your regular household shopping dollars to work. You earn money for our school without spending a single additional penny. Just spend your regular shopping dollars with scrip at the stores that participate in the scrip program! And scrip can be used for just about any household purchase including food, clothing, entertainment, gasoline and even dining out. You can purchase gift cards at the McKean Elementary School Office & we usually place a large order around the holidays. Some of the participating retailers are: Ace Hardware Advance Auto Parts aerie Aeropostale Amazon.com American Eagle Outfitters American Girl Applebee's Arby's AutoZone Babies"R"Us Barnes & Noble Bath & Body Works Bed Bath & Beyond Best Buy Bob Evans Bon-Ton BP Buffalo Wild Wings Build-A-Bear Workshop Burger King Burlington Coat Factory Cabela's Children's Place Chipotle Mexican Grill Christmas Tree Shops Chuck E. Cheese Cinemark Tinseltown Claire's Cold Stone Creamery Cracker Barrel Crazy 8 Darden Restaurants Denny's Dick's Sporting Goods Disney Domino's Pizza Dunkin' Donuts Eat'n Park Eddie Bauer Family Video Famous Hair Finish Line Foot Locker GameStop Gander Mountain Gap Giant Eagle GFS Marketplace GNC Groupon.com Gymboree Hallmark Icing itunes jcpenney Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores KFC Kmart Kohl's L.L.Bean Lady Foot Locker Lands' End Limited Little Caesar's Pizza Long John Silver's LongHorn Steakhouse Lowe's Macy's Marshalls Men's Wearhouse Michaels O'Charley's Office Depot Office Max Old Country Buffet Old Navy Olive Garden Outback Steakhouse Overstock.com Panera Bread Papa John's Pizza Payless Shoes PetSmart Pier 1 Imports Pizza Hut Qdoba Mexican Grill Red Lobster Restaurant.com Ruby Tuesday Sally Beauty Supply Sam's Club Sears Sheetz Shoe Carnival Shutterfly Staples Starbucks Steak 'n Shake SUBWAY Restaurants T.J. Maxx Taco Bell Talbots Target Texas Roadhouse TGI Fridays The Home Depot Tim Hortons Toys"R"Us Under Armour Walgreens Walmart
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