TLDR: Box Tops is phasing out the collection of package labels in favor of a mobile app that scans your grocery receipts. Save both for now to help raise money for DMS students.Last spring, General Mills announced a change to the Box Tops for Education program.
Here is what your DMS family needs to know:
1) Box Tops remain a significant part of the PTA's fundraising mix for the 2019-2020 school year. Please don't stop clipping!
2) The program, however, is transitioning toward a mobile phone app-based system in which families photograph their grocery receipts (instead of cutting out the labels and returning them to the school). The scanning technology automatically detects the products purchased with the Box Tops seal.
3) Provided you have linked "Dunloggin Middle School (Ellicott City, MD)" as the beneficiary in your Box Tops in the mobile app, 10 cents is credited to the DMS PTA for every participating product found on your receipt.
Our family is using the mobile app and it really quite impressive. I would encourage you to download the app today and give it a try.
One more very important (in fact, critical) thing: keep clipping Box Tops labels as you see them and hold on to the ones you've been collecting all spring and summer! The PTA will be collecting them this fall as DMS is permitted to redeem these with General Mills until the program has fully transitioned away from clipping.
For more details, this short video from the Box Tops team at General Mills is worth a watch, as well as, a quick tour through the Box Tops website.
So keep scanning those receipts and keep clipping (for now)!
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