Nominating Person:
Nicole Boyce
Ardena PTA President
732-682-8865
Nicole.boyce@njjjc.org

Maggie Mills
26 Vardon Way 
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
5 years with Ardena PTA as a volunteer


Maggie is the Box Top mom for our school. She goes above and beyond in raising awareness about collecting Box Tops, Campbell’s Soup Labels, My Coke Rewards, Tyson Rewards, etc. She never turns down a way to get our kids involved in raising free money to support our school. She collects the box tops from each class and even solicits businesses to donate free dessert or free bowling coupons for the families that participate. Maggie has raised over $4,518.77 in the past two years; only collecting what people would usually throw away with the garbage. When it is a holiday season she puts out special box top promotions, raffles off family craft baskets, and even hosts a Family Fitness event at our annual school carnival.

Maggie has created Bright Pink Box Top collection bags for each of the classrooms in our school and has also made collection boxes to display outside the main office. She puts updates in our school newsletter on a quarterly basis. She solicited her friends, neighbors, and family to give her their box tops, etc. If you leave them in her mailbox she will but out each label before turning them in. Box Tops labels are typically worth 10 cents, so the amount of money that she has raised means she has collected over  45,187 box tops. She has signed us up with programs such as Upromise, target rewards, stop and shop and is now looking into a program with Amazon. This is Maggie's last year with Ardena PTA as her kids are going off to Middle and High School in the District. She has already reeled in two moms from her neighborhood to take over being the BOX TOP MOM!!!


Besides all of the work that Maggie does with the Box Tops, she helps to run the Book Fair in the Fall and Spring, Teacher Appreciation Week, and is the first to sign up to help at an event that someone else is chairing. For this years gift auction she made over 200 basket tags, and worked the entire auction,(which she paid to attend), along with helping to set up in the afternoon before the event. She was wrapping baskets until midnight, and soliciting businesses like a champ. She also helped the School Vice Principal coordinate Red Ribbon Week. Maggie is one of those people that you can always count on. Her ability to make beautiful centerpieces using “Morton Salt Containers” should no go unnoticed either. She is always thinking of others, and constantly asking where help is needed. Maggie is truly deserving of the volunteer of the year award, and I hope that after reading this, you feel the same way!