Aug 08 2008
Earning cash for your school with Box Tops for Education
A few weeks ago I wrote Learn how to win 100,000 Box Tops for Education for your school! Yes, we’d all know the odds of winning a contest – pretty slim. Luckily, there’s another way to earn money for school – shopping in the Box Tops for Education Marketplace.
I wish I had know about this before I shopped online at some of my favorite merchants like Kohl’s, Staples and Target. Oriental Trading, Cabella’s, Home Depot and over 60 other popular merchants are there. It’s also a great site to do your back to school shopping at, since merchants like Wal-Mart and Lands End are offering special deals until the end of August.
If you want to shop through the site to earn money for your school, you must register online through the Box Tops website and designate a school to support. Second, you must start your online shopping at the Box Tops for Education Marketplace in order for Box Tops to credit purchases to your school. Finally, be sure that “cookies” are enabled on your Internet browser. The use of cookies is necessary to accurately track your purchases from participating stores.
Friends, relatives, and businesses can shop to support any school, whether it’s in the next state or across the country. All they need to do is sign up online at the Box Tops website with your child’s school’s name and state or ZIP code. Once registered, every qualifying purchase they make through the Box Tops Marketplace will earn cash for your school.
For more information see the Box Tops for Education Marketplace FAQs.
I have a profile at Box Tops for Education from a few years back, and have a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card*, a $10 gift card to Land’s End and a $20 Target gift card sitting on my desk. Looks like I have some shopping to do!
(Complimentary of RocketXL. Now before you say, “Well you were paid to promote this!” Well, true. However, I’m happy to get the word out about another way to raise money for my children’s school while doing the stuff moms normally do, like shopping online. I think most of us would rather raise money this way than buy cookie dough, you know?)
I’d much rather do this than buy cookie dough! You are right ON! And, I had no idea that the box top program went beyond the tangible box tops from foods – thanks for the info.