School Promo ~ BTFE: Are you a BTFE coordinator?

[susanktz]

From the posts I've read, we have quite a few BTFE Coordinators on the site. Of course, it makes sense to feed off each other and keep each other up to date.

My questions is ..... how long have you been doing this? This is my very first month as a coordinator!!! :shrug7: I could use all the help I can get. However, when I try to get ask for a Box Top Buddy..... the user is no longer registered with the site.

Let's help each other!! What do you think??

[zoeys_mom]

I just signed my dd's school up and am anxiously awaiting registration to be finalized so I can start promoting the program.

I would love some insight as well! I know how to collect, but beyond that, I'm clueless!

[sbp]

I'm not a coordinator, but this week I've been unofficially promoted to be my son's school's coordinator's assistant and counter. LOL I'm known as the box top lady among all the teachers in the school.

[susanktz]

Originally Posted by sbp I'm known as the box top lady among all the teachers in the school.

The sad thing is, so am I!! But luckily I've had sooooo much support.

I'm also very fortunate to have resources at work to run worksheets, etc to save me time and the school money for paper, etc.

[doulas3babes]

I am the newly named coordinator at our little school and I am going at it all alone......

I'm learning the ropes as I go w/out any instructions from the old coordinator, other than, here's the box, good luck and thanks!!

I signed up for the boxtop buddy, contacted them, but have yet to hear anything back. Doesn't really surprise me though, that's my kind of luck.

I went on the PTO's website and found some cute BTFE collection sheets for each month that are themed. They've been quite successful thus far in the amount I distributed to the classrooms and the amounts that have come back.

I also started a word document w/all the teachers names listed from K to 8th grade and put each child's name that contributes underneath w/the amount that the send in. Will just keep a running tab till the final collection in Feb.

[Debbieomi]

Howdy fellow coordinators. I guess I'm the old lady in the group. This is my 5th year coordinating, 7th year of involvement. I clipped and sorted for my first year, ran the contests and clipped my second and did it all from my third til this year. Since this is my son's last year at the schools that our PTO supports, this is my last year doing "Ca$h for Trash" for them. I get to move on to the middle school with him next year. I have a coordinator in training this year.
I have a team of clippers each year that I find through our "Three for Me" volunteer program. This year, there are 10 ladies who clip. This will be my first year with no clipping!!! The sorting of each item and record keeping is enough to do! (We collect about 10 different items.) Each of my clippers have 2 or 3 classrooms that they sort through and separate each month. They record the numbers as to how many of each item that each classroom brings in.
There aren't enough hours in the day to spend much time on the btfe coordinator's forum but it is definitely the most useful place for info. I also belong to a yahoo group. I get most info about special promos there right now. It helps to be able to log into btfe.com every day and read top postings for new info...also the admin's posts.
Because we collect so many items, I don't do btfe collection sheets regularly. I did one for our Trunk or Treat that clearly stated the btfe would not be counted towards our year long contests. I will do another during a local festival we have each April. I find a few good prizes, either freebies, cheapies or donations to use as a prize. My Halloween one was a bunch of little Halloween stuff that I got as fillers for my Walgreens deals. I added a Webkinz and a board game and the kid was ecstatic.
I could write for hours, but I got my ideas off the coordinator's board, so I'll save my fingers and reiterate to go there and read, read, read!

[cody82414]

I took on the coordinator position for my boys' elementary school just last October!

[cecaic0609]

How do you get into something like this, I saw my boxtops anyway and would love to be the coordinator for something like this. Do they work around your schedule or can you do this from home?

[cody82414]

Originally Posted by cecaic0609 How do you get into something like this, I saw my boxtops anyway and would love to be the coordinator for something like this. Do they work around your schedule or can you do this from home?

It's all you!
You decide everything - fundraisers, promotions, everything except how to spend the monies

I recommend approaching the principal and asking if anyone is doing the job, and if not, can you take it on.

You can even check on line to see whether your specific school has an ongoing program. Help Support Schools and Education, Create Change ? Box Tops for Education

[mmandjsmom]

I am going to be our school's BTFE assistant....that's what I get for asking the asst. principal (current coordinator) if the school was going to have any sort of competition this year.