If you take the "pledge" to use fewer bottles of bottled water at http://www.filterforgood.com/ you can get a $5.00 coupon towards the $9.99 Brita bottle. I will add a code to our page as well.
I just found the bottle itself for sale at a local Fred Meyer for $9.99. That is the suggested retail price from Brita and anything lower is a pounce worthy deal.
So, why am I mentioning it here on the Whitney Blog? Brita products carry Box Tops for Education on them!
Yes, it might be summer but our Whitney community is in PRIME Box Top collection time. A very good friend of mine handed me 21 Box Tops the other day (lots of Juicy Juice is being had right now). That's another $2.10 we can put towards our kids and their dreams for the future.
We can always put those dollars to good use at the school but what do YOU see for Whitney?
For example:
- Should we set up a scholarship for Whitney elementary graduates to help them with application fees for college? Just getting an application into Harvard can be cost prohibitive for some families; it is not free!
- Should we work toward putting electronic response systems in every classroom? (You know, those clickers that let the shy kid in the back of the room try their hand at answering a question without the risk of raising their hand.)
- Should we raise money to get the LEGO STEM curriculum in every classroom?
Keep clipping those Box Tops over the summer and when school starts up, join the PTO. You do not need to become the PTO President or even a regular meeting attender. Join the email distribution, come to meetings when you can and find your niche. Even if you can never come to a meeting, the most important thing about the PTO is the community of thinkers and resources we have pooled.
A word about Britas: You can recycle your filter by going to Brita's website. I'm currently trying to talk TerraCycle into taking these as well. http://www.brita.com/your-brita/recycle-your-filter/
Nikki Rutledge
-Whitney Parent
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