FundingFactory Participants Eligible to Win One of Four now!Boards™ by Setting and Reaching their Recycling Goals
ERIE, Pa. (Oct. 1, 2012) — FundingFactory, the largest recycling fundraiser, is partnering with Learning Resources®, a leading global manufacturer of educational products, to help schools earn the latest classroom technology. The companies also are teaming up to offer four now!Board™ Portable Interactive Whiteboard Technology giveaways in the 2012-2013 school year.
FundingFactory is a 100 percent free fundraising by recycling program for schools and nonprofit organizations. Participants exchange used inkjet and toner printer cartridges, cell phones, and small electronics for cash or points redeemable for new technology and other products through FundingFactory’s online Rewards Catalog. New this fall, participants are able to redeem points to purchase Learning Resources products, including now!Board™.
“Learning Resources understands our participants’ needs for affordable classroom and board room technology,” said Sean Michaels, president of FundingFactory. “By partnering with them, we’ve extended the suite of technology available through our Rewards Catalog—devices our participants otherwise may not be able to obtain.”
In addition to recycling to earn Learning Resources products, FundingFactory participants have four chances this school year to be entered to win devices. Participants who set an annual fundraising goal by Oct. 31 will automatically be entered to win a now!Board. A second entry for the same now!Board will be awarded to participants who achieve their fundraising goal of $500 or more by May 31, 2013. now!Board, which will be awarded by FundingFactory in June 2013, is an easy-to-use, portable whiteboard technology that works with any projector and computer on any flat surface.
To kick off the season, Learning Resources and FundingFactory also are giving away a now!Board on “Super Tuesdays” during FundingFactory’s annual “October Treats” promotion. Participants can log into their FundingFactory account every Tuesday during the month for a chance to win one of three now!Boards, or an Easi-Speak™ USB Recorder or Luna™ Interactive Projection Camera.
To learn more about the Learning Resources now!Board giveaways or the FundingFactory program, visit Facebook.com/FundingFactory. For complete rules, visit http://blog.fundingfactory.com/2012/09/october-treats-learning-resources-nowboard.
About FundingFactory
Since its inception in 1997, FundingFactory has provided more than $31 million in funding to more than 50,000 schools and nonprofit organizations across the U.S., and saved 30 million pounds of waste from landfills. FundingFactory is a free recycling fundraiser for schools, nonprofits, and charities. Participating organizations can earn points redeemable for cash or products by recycling used inkjet and toner cartridges, cell phones, and small electronics collected from their communities and supporters. FundingFactory is a program of Environmental Reclamation Services, LLC, a Clover Technologies Group company. Headquartered in Erie, Pa., ERS is an R2-certified, ISO 14001-2004-certified, Zero Landfill Initiative company with more than 99 percent of its incoming material having been reused or recycled in 2011.
About Learning Resources
Learning Resources® is a leading global manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational products trusted by teachers and parents and loved by children. The company’s 1,100+ high-quality products are sold in more than 80 countries, serving children and their families, preschool, kindergarten, primary, and middle-school markets. Among the company’s brands are Pretend & Play®, Smart Snacks®, New Sprouts™, Gears! Gears! Gears!®, Primary Science, now!Board™, Simple Technology, Hands-On Standards® publications, Rainbow Fractions®, and Reading Rods®. Learning Resources is headquartered in Vernon Hills, Ill., with a European office based in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England. For more information visit www.LearningResources.com or call 1-800-333-8281.
Media Contacts
• Erika Dauber, FundingFactory, 814-464-1826, edauber@fundingfactory.com
• Kristen Plemon, C. Blohm & Associates, 608-216-7300 x18, kristen@cblohm.com