Box Tops for Education Program to Triple in Size For Fifth Anniversary.Business Editors/Education Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and on Business Wire's Web site at www.businesswire.com MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000 Over $32 million already distributed to nation's K-8 schools The start of the new school year also marks the fifth anniversary of Box Tops The Box Tops were a Memphis pop music group of the late 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter," "Soul Deep" and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. for Education, an easy and empowering fundraising program for schools across the country. Since its inception, the program has provided schools with over $32 million to fund everything from field trips to computers. This year, the program - which runs from September 1, 2000 to March 31, 2001 - will be bigger and better than ever. In celebration of the program's fifth anniversary, Box Tops for Education is now featured on all Betty Crocker Betty Crocker, an invented persona and mascot, is a brand name and trademark of American food company General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn Crosby Company in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. products, which more than triples the opportunities for schools to raise money through the program. Betty Crocker's involvement drives the number of participating products from 95 to over 330. During the 1999-2000 school year, nearly 60% of the nation's K-8 schools were enrolled in Box Tops for Education. Each year, all enrolled schools receive a complete program tool kit (written in both English and Spanish) to help them build their own comprehensive fundraising campaign. Most schools designate a program coordinator to develop ways to encourage students, parents, school staff and community members to clip box tops from participating products and bring them to school. After the collected box tops are sent in to General Mills  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . , the school receives a check, equivalent to 10 cents for every box top redeemed. Schools can earn up to $10,000 per program year to spend on anything they choose. Already, schools across the country have turned in over 222 million box tops. Thousands of schools have used money from Box Tops for Education to purchase items such as computers and computer software, library books, art supplies, and playground equipment. Most participating schools set a goal of how much they'd like to raise each year and what they hope to purchase. "Schools that constantly remind people of what they hope to accomplish through the program tend to reach their goals more often than those who do not share their goal," said Linda Daily of General Mills. "It's amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. how visualizing something to work towards can motivate a school and its community." Box Tops for Education is open to any accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. public, private, or parochial schools parochial school (pərō`kēəl), school supported by a religious body. In the United States such schools are maintained by a number of religious groups, including Lutherans, Seventh-day Adventists, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, and for grades K-8 in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. that have a 501(c)(3) or 509(a)(1) tax-exempt designation and to any United States military schools, for grades K-8, worldwide. It is also available to accredited to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying s>. See also: Accredit home school associations, K-8, in the United States that have a 501(c)(3) or 509(a)(1) tax-exempt designation and have 15 more students. Participating products include General Mills cereals, all Betty Crocker products and Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks Fruit snack is a processed snack food made from fruit, sugar, and/or other natural and artificial flavors and colors. Many fruit snacks are high in vitamin C. They tend to be more healthy than candy but less healthy than actual fruit. , Yoplait Yogurt Multi-Packs, Yoplait Go-Gurt, Lloyd's Barbecue products, some General Mills snack products and General Mills Food Service Products. Box Tops for Education encourages parents to contact their child's school to make sure it is enrolled in the program. For more information, go to the program's newly redesigned Web site at www.boxtops4education.com. Box Tops for Education, Betty Crocker, Yoplait, and Lloyd's Barbecue are registered trademarks of General Mills, Inc. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. 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