How to Help Earn Money for Your Child's School

With school budgets shrinking every day, schools are finding themselves without the funding they need to buy extras and sometimes even essential items. Corporations like General Mills, Campbell's, and Nestle are pitching in with special programs designed to help schools earn extra money for their classrooms and students.

General Mills' Boxtops for Education program is probably the best known of these programs. They have helped over 95,000 schools earn $200 million in just over ten years. The concept is simple. Your school just registers, which can be done online at Boxtops For Education. A volunteer will be needed to serve as coordinator of your school's program. Then simply encourage, parents, family members, faculty, and staff to clip boxtops from participating products such as General Mills cereals, Old El Paso products, Kleenex, Ziploc items, Pillsbury, or Betty Crocker products and many more.

The boxtops should be turned into the school and given to the coordinator. They are worth ten cents each. You can also earn cash from General Mills by shopping at select stores through the boxtops website. You can obtain a Boxtops For Education Visa card and your school will earn 1% cash back on every purchase you make. Boxtops can be sent into General Mills twice a year and your school will receive a check for the amount earned.

Campbell's Labels For Education offers a catalog of products that can be bought with points earned through clipping labels. Once again, your school will need a coordinator and need to register online at Labels For Education. Some of the eligible Campbell's products with labels to clip include Campbell's soups, V-8 beverages, Franco-American, Prego, Swanson, and Pepperidge Farms. The labels are normally worth two points each, but recently Campbell's has added some five point labels.

The Labels For Education program has been helping schools for thirty years, there are over 75,000 schools registered and they have provided over $100 million in merchandise for schools.

Nestle is a relative newcomer to the label programs, but it has come up with a great way for schools to earn sports gear and field trip transportation for schools. Again you will need to register the school and have a coordinator. The labels can easily be removed from bottles of Nestle Pure Life Water products.

Nestle will send a collection box for students to put their labels in. Each label is worth two points (.02 cents). Schools have the opportunity to earn up to one million points, the equivalent of $10,000 in rewards. The program begins in September and ends in May of each year. For more information you can visit the Go Play website.

With programs like these, it is breeze to help earn money for your child's school just by clipping the labels from products that you already purchase.