Ben Franklin PTO - helping to educate your children
These fundraisers help supply funds to the PTO for field trips, educational assemblies, homeroom parties, student planners, classroom supplies, playground equipment and more.
Market Day
Market Day is a food cooperative fundraiser for our school. It is a monthly food program where you can purchase quality products and our school profits at least 10% of every purchase. Ordering is simple! The fastest way is to visit www.marketday.com and order directly from the site. If you’ve never ordered from the site before, you will need to register with a few easy steps and choose Ben Franklin Elementary as your pick-up location. Ben Franklin’s account number is 11597. You may choose to pay online via credit/debit card or pay by cash, check, or PA Access card at the sale. You may also send your order form to school with your child. Pay by check made payable to “Market Day” or pay at the sale as above. Your order will be ready for pick-up on the sale date listed online and on the back of your order form. Just come to the cafeteria on the sale date and time and check in with the Market Day representative at the location and your order will be ready to go!
If you prefer to use the PA access card, please contact our Market Day Rep, Katara McGuire for prior approval at  412-831-2605 or tarahocker@hotmail.com.Thanks you for your support of this worthwhile fundraiser for your PTO!
 
Giant Eagle “Apples for the Students” Program 
Ben Franklin PTO is encouraging its supporters to enroll their Giant Eagle Advantage Cards® in the Apples for the Students program. The programs begins October 1, 2011 and runs through March 14, 2012. The school earns points toward educational awards such as technology, playground equipment and classroom supplies with every purchase made with an enrolled Giant Eagle Advantage Card®. 
 
Two Ways Supporters Can Register
1. Visit www.gianteagle.com/schools and Click on the Apples for the Students icon then simply follow the onscreen instructions, enter the required information, including your Giant Eagle Advantage Card®number and your School ID number (Ben Franklin's Number is 0069) .  
2. Call toll-free 1-800-474-4777 and follow the simple voice response prompts  You will need to provide their Giant Eagle Advantage Card® number and your School ID number (Ben Franklin’s Number is 0069).  
 
Please take a moment to register your Giant Eagle Advantage Card® today! If you have children in multiple schools, you can give them the school code for each child’s school. Encourage family, friends, and neighbors to register their cards as well so we can maximize our earnings. Please contact Beth Scarlett at 412-835-4343 with any questions.
 
Tyson Project A+™
We are taking part in a national fundraising program sponsored by Tyson Foods, Inc. called Tyson Project A+™. Through this program, we can raise as much as $12,000 for our school this year! All we have to do to participate is clip and save the entire Project A+™ label from participating Tyson products. Each label we collect is worth 24¢ for our school. Please send in any labels to school marked “Ben Franklin PTO - Tyson labels.” For more information about the Tyson Project A+™ program, visit http://ProjectAPlus.tyson.com or contact Beth Scarlett at 412-835-4343 or at e.scarlett@gmail.com. Thanks for your support!
 
 
Box Tops 4 Education 
This program is an easy and very profitable fundraiser for our school - we get 10 cents for each Box Top that you cut out on the products you already buy at the grocery store! Box Tops offers three easy ways to earn cash for our school:   
 
Clip - Clip Box Top coupons from hundreds of participating products and send them to school. Box Tops coupons are worth 10¢ each when our school redeems them from Box Tops for Education. This is a fundraiser your kids can be involved with since they can cut out the box tops and glue them to the collection sheets. They can also ask grandparents, friends, and neighbors to collect them as well.  
 
Shop - Shop at your favorite online stores through the Box Tops MarketplaceSM (www.btfe.com/marketplace). You can earn up to 15 eBoxTops per $10 you spend.  There is no additional cost to your purchase and many exclusive deals and discounts can be found!  
 
Buy books - Purchase books online at Barnes & Noble through the Box Tops Reading Room. Our school will receive 6 Box Tops per $10 spent.

Sign Up - One of the easiest ways you can help is to sign up to support our school at www.btfe.com. You will learn about new and easy ways to help our school earn the extra cash it needs. Plus, you can sign up for email newsletters to receive new product updates, and Box Tops members-only deals, grocery coupons, and discounts at Box Tops Marketplace retail stores.  

To encourage the kids to collect and turn in the box tops we will have several Box Tops contests this year. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Beth Scarlett at 412-835-4343 or e.scarlett@gmail.com.  

All information about Ben Franklin PTO Box Tops will be on this new website:
http://franklinboxtops.weebly.com
 
Campbells Labels for Education
The Labels for Education program is a great way to get FREE merchandise for our school, and Campbell makes it so easy to redeem labels. To meet our goals, we need to collect 1000 labels. Participating in the program is easy — simply save labels from Campbell products and send them to school. Some of the products eligible for label redemption in the program include:
Campbell’s® soups
Campbell’s Supper Bakes® meal kits
Campbell’s® or Franco-American® SpaghettiOs® pasta
Campbell’s® beans, gravies, and canned pasta
Prego® pasta sauces
Swanson® broths and canned poultry
Pace® salsa and picante sauces
V8® vegetable juices and V8 Splash® juice drinks
Campbell’s® tomato juice
Pepperidge Farm® breads, cookies, crackers, and frozen products
Pepperidge Farm® Goldfish® crackers
Campbell’s® Foodservice products
 
Below is a complete list of participating products.
 
 
Triple your efforts by asking your friends and family to collect labels on behalf of our school. Community members can pledge their support by making a Community Label Pledge at www.labelsforeducation.com. Simply invite friends and family to visit the website, and click into the “Community Label Pledge” link. Here they can make a voluntary pledge to donate Campbell product labels to our school. Don’t forget to visit www.labelsforeducation.com for more information about the program. Thanks so much for your support. Together with Campbell’s Labels for Education — we can build a better school for our children — one label at a time. If you have any questions please contact Polly McCracken at pollymac1@verizon.net or 412-854-5537.
 
Shop ’n Save Receipts - SEEDs Program
Save your Shop ’n Save receipts for the SEED School Assembly Program. Ben Franklin needs to collect $250 worth of receipts per student to host a free science assembly. Please send all receipts to school in an envelope marked “PTO Mailbox - SEEDs.” If you have any questions, please contact Gina Conroy.