Avery Dennison Joins Box Tops for Education®
To Help Earn Cash For Schools
The first school and office supply manufacturer to
join the program, Avery Dennison wants to help make
a difference in children’s education
Given the difficult economic climate, many
corporations and individuals have been forced to
reduce their levels of charitable giving and have
also found it more challenging to devote time and
energy toward community service activities. Avery
and IAAP have identified an easy way for you to
continue supporting your local community by
participating in Box Tops for Education ®, a
successful school-based fundraising program that has
helped America’s K-8 schools earn more than $300
million over the past 13 years and over $50 million
dollars last year alone! Box Tops for Education was
created by General Mills, Inc. in 1996 as a way for
everyone to pitch in and raise money to help kids,
teachers and schools. The program has helped local
schools across the country earn cash to get the
things they need—from books and school supplies to
playground equipment and computers.
What are Box Tops?
Box Tops for Education coupons can be found on many
everyday household products. Currently, six major
manufacturers (General Mills, Avery Dennison,
Kimberly-Clark, S.C. Johnson, Nestle and
Pactiv-Hefty) participate in the program and offer a
wide selection of products that carry Box Tops
coupons. In fact, Box Tops are now carried on more
than 2,000 products that can be found in grocery
stores, club stores, drug stores, mass merchandisers
and office and school supply stores. They’re
typically printed right on a box or package. These
coupons can be clipped and submitted to a local,
participating K-8 school. Each Box Tops coupon that
is provided to a school carries a value of $.10.
Throughout the year, a participating K-8 school will
continuously collect Box Tops coupons and
ultimately, will send them to a fulfillment center,
at which time they will be issued a check for the
total value of Box Tops coupons they have collected.
Schools are eligible to collect up to $20,000
annually from this program.
Get Started and Sponsor a
Local School in Your Community
Any company or individual can become a
supporter of Box Tops. It’s easy to get involved—a
majority of America’s K-8 elementary and middle
schools actively participate in the Box Tops
program, and even those that currently don’t can
still enroll and participate. Simply identify a
local elementary or middle school in your community
who you or your organization would like to help.
Contact that particular school and ask whether they
participate in Box Tops for Education.
• If the school currently participates and collects
Box Tops, ask to speak to their Box Tops Coordinator
and communicate your interest in helping out. If
they do not have a Box Tops Coordinator, ask to
speak to the Principal or other administrator with
whom you could work.
• If the school does not currently participate in
Box Tops, indicate to them that you would like to
help them out with Box Tops coupon collection, and
suggest that they reach out to General Mills to get
started. Once they’ve signed on, you will then be
able to work with someone from that school who can
facilitate the Box Tops collection.
Collecting Box Tops
Once your company (or you) decides to support a
local school in collecting Box Tops, the rest is
easy!
• If you’re serving as the main contact for your
company in collecting Box Tops for a particular
school, consider setting up collection bins in
central locations in each department or floor of
your building, periodically reminding employees to
please donate any Box Tops they may have collected.
Once you’ve gathered a significant amount, reach out
to your contact at the school and make arrangements
to drop them off! The school will be so
appreciative.
Avery is Proud to be the
Newest Partner in Box Tops for Education!
Avery wants to help make a difference in
children’s education and is excited to be the first
office and school products manufacturer to
participate as a partnering brand with General Mills
in Box Tops for Education. You’ll find Box Tops
coupons on over 600 specially marked Avery products
for school and work. Specific Avery products
featured in the program include Avery® Durable and
Heavy Duty binders, Index Maker® dividers, Avery®
sheet protectors, address and shipping labels,
Hi-Liter® brand highlighters, Marks-A-Lot® dry erase
and permanent markers, Avery® glue sticks, name
badges, and T-shirt transfers.
For more information on Box Tops for Education,
please visit
www.boxtopsforeducation.com or
www.avery.com/btfe
About Avery Dennison Office Products Avery
Dennison Office Products group markets products
under the well-known Avery brand name and is one of
the world’s leading manufacturers of self-adhesive
labels for laser and ink jet printers, labeling
software, binders, sheet protectors, index and tab
dividers and other office-, home- and school-related
supplies. Avery Dennison Office Products, a business
unit of Avery Dennison Corporation, is based in
Brea, California.
For more information about Avery-brand products,
consumers can visit the Avery Dennison Worldwide
Office Products Web site at
www.avery.com or
call the Avery Dennison Consumer Service Center at
1-800-GO-AVERY (1-800-462-8379). Avery and all other
Avery brands and product names are trademarks of
Avery Dennison Corporation.
Box Tops for Education
America’s schools have earned more than $300 million
through Box Tops for Education since the program
started in 1996. Thousands of schools have used that
cash to purchase items such as computers, library
books, art supplies and playground equipment.
Schools can earn up to $60,000 per year to spend on
anything they choose, by clipping Box Tops coupons
from hundreds of products and shopping online
through the Box Tops Marketplace and Reading Room.
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