Del Monte Fruits, Cash for Classrooms and a giveaway!fruits.

Del Monte Fresh Produce is launching a program to help support kindergarten through 12th grade public school teachers across North and Central America with cash to purchase school supplies and fresh fruit in the “Teacher Monday: Cash for Classrooms” campaign. One hundred prizes totaling $1,000 each will be awarded to teachers who get the most votes in the “Teacher Monday: Cash for Classrooms” online contest at www.fruits.com.


To be eligible to win, teachers must register for the “Teacher Monday: Cash for Classrooms” online contest at www.fruits.com. After teachers register their name and school, they can get all their fans -- from parents to students, to friends and family -- to vote for them. Ten winners will be selected each Monday for five consecutive weeks in October/November, 2010, for a total of 50 winning teachers North American teachers. Winners are based solely on the number of votes they receive. Winning teachers will receive $750 in cash to purchase school supplies and $250 in Del Monte fresh fruit coupons for classroom snacks and to use in fruit educational activities.

I love it when companies support teachers! I think teachers get the short end of the stick sometimes when the work they do is something I know I could never do!

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Be sure to check it out, and tell all the teachers in your life about the cash for classrooms! There are only 2 weeks left to enter and win!

DelMonte has also given me two $25 Del Monte fresh fruit gift certificates (valid in the US only) to give away to two lucky readers!

How to enter:

1.(Mandatory) Visit fruits.com and tell me which recipe on the site looks like something you want to try!

2. Subscribe to my blog via email - on right sidebar, must be verified. Make sure you leave the email you subscribed with! (2 entries)

3. "Like" DelMonteFresh orMy Life as a Married Girl on Facebook (1 entry each)

4. Follow Delmontefresh or me on Twitter (1 entry each)

5. Follow my blog (1 entry)

6. Put my blog button on your site (1 entry)

7. Blog about the giveaway Be sure to mention the Cash for classrooms and fruits.com (2 entries)

8. Tweet about this giveaway. Be sure to include fruits.com and @katrinawelch. (1 entry)


I will check all entries, and non valid entries will be deleted! Good Luck!

Giveaway is open to US residents over the age of 18.
Giveaway will end on Nov 20th.