Comments on: How Can I Earn Money For My School System?

By: Rob Hall

Rob Hall — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:15:34 +0000

We have been promoting the TrueBlue Schools program as well for about a year and already earned over $5,000! We just passed out some flyers at a PTA meeting and in the registration packets. SO EASY! We would love for the teachers to help get the word out too!

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:48:33 +0000

The TRUE BLUE SCHOOLS program from GNG was incredibly easy to sign up for. I like the fact that it is a one time act that produces a steady stream of money. Nothing to forget! Sign up now! You do need to know your account number if you are already a customer or be prepared to switch to GNG.

By: Judd

Judd — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:28:24 +0000

Thanks for this Karass, Macarolina, and DM. The schools should really promote the target cards and the GA Natural Gas thing. We get a lot of bang for our buck here, but the squeeze is coming from the state.

By: Karass

Karass — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:08:34 +0000

My sense is that the state has been providing less and less funding which places more and more burden on local taxes. And that reduction in state funding precedes the recession. Public education just doesn’t rank high enough in the state’s priorities for spending.

However, my understanding from parents of kids in private school is that they get hit up all the time to raise funding and donate as well. I hear that some schools size up the family in the Admissions process and gauge how much time, energy, and money they’ll bring to the school. That would really rankle–paying high taxes, high tuition, AND having to clip those darn boxtops!

By: Brad Steel

Brad Steel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:55:14 +0000

What is their appetite for Cheetah Bucks? I know the tax commissioner was not thrilled (or pretended he wasn’t.)

I waver between pity and outrage with the idea that we have been reduced to raising money for out public schools through coupon clipping.

The excuses about the lack of tax proceeds/base seem lame.

By: Karass

Karass — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:39:40 +0000

Make that Ms. Tibbets–I was trying to delete an extra “t”, not the “s” but goofed. Always bad to misspell your librarian’s name!

By: Karass

Karass — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:24:45 +0000

Clairemont collects printer cartridges too–bring them to Ms. Tibbett in the Media Center.

By: Karass

Karass — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:23:06 +0000

Publix Partner Card info is tough to find on-line almost as though they don’t want to advertise it! It’s a regional, not Publix-wide, program. For example, our local school Publix Partner cards seem to work in any Publix in the metro area but they don’t work at Publixes (sp?) in South Florida. The best contacts for program info are local Publix store managers (the real managers, not the off-hours managers, e.g. John Saneda at the Emory Commons Publix). I used to have a phone number for someone to call if your Publix check wasn’t showing up on time but don’t have it anymore. If you call Customer Relations for Corporate Publix, you’ll probably eventually find someone who knows something. You can’t get a Publix Partner Card online–you have to pick up from the school or have someone at the school deliver to you. Any parent could do that. Having said all this, this card is probably the biggest earner for CSD schools out of all the programs mentioned in this post.

Clairemont definitely collects Boxtops. Kids really enjoy this program but I can’t blame the school PTO/PTAs that dropped it because it’s a lot of work for the parent in charge clipping the coupons, bundling them in groups of 50, and mailing them in. On the other hand, it’s a good way to teach your kids to count by 50s!

I think many schools have stopped collecting Labels for Education because they yield merchandise vs. cash.