Membership

We know schools are often required to raise money (or ask families to help) to meet the costs of providing high-quality educational experiences to complement school curricula.  Now there's a way to earn funds to help you meet these and other costs, with a program that benefits your school, its families, and most importantly, your students. With Carnegie Cash for Schools, you can raise funds for your school by partnering with Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. 

Anyone can help raise money for your school through Carnegie Cash for Schools . . . parents, alumni, friends, neighbors, grandparents, out-of-town relatives, anyone you can think of!

Best of all, your students do NO selling and collect NO money. . .so they remain free to concentrate on learning.  Meanwhile, your school community feels good because they are supporting three great causes:  their own families, your school, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, one of our community's great treasures.

Carnegie Cash for Schools works like a cash rewards or rebate program.  When someone buys a Carnegie Museums membership and identifies your school as a registered Carnegie Cash participant, your school receives cash back on that membership purchase--$10 for each new membership purchased and $5 for each renewal membership.  In addition to the cash you earn for every membership credited, your school can earn special CASH bonus rewards of up to $10,000 each year!

If your school has a website, we can create a link to our secure online membership purchase pages at the Carnegie Museums online Member Center.  When members of your community link to the purchase page through your school’s web site, they need not enter any codes—the purchase automatically will be credited to your school!

If your school does not have a web site or if you have individuals who prefer not to purchase memberships online--that’s okay.  Simply instruct people who purchase a membership via phone, mail, or onsite at any of our four museums to request at the point of sale that the sale be credited to the school’s Carnegie Cash account.   

How does it work? (continued)

There are no quotas, no minimum sales . . . just CASH on every membership purchased—and opportunity to earn CASH BONUSES and discounts on museum field trips.

Your school will earn $5 cash for every Renewal Membership purchased and credited to your school during the calendar year (January 1 to December 31).

In addition, your school will earn $10 on every New Membership sale plus CASH BONUSES on New Memberships at Special Reward Levels during the same calendar year. 


What do I need to do?

• Provide a link on your school's website (if applicable) to Carnegie Museums' Membership Purchase page. We'll provide the encoded URL to your webmaster so your school is automatically credited with the transaction.
• Communicate to parents, teachers, staff, friends, alumni, neighbors about the program.
• Receive $10 for every NEW membership purchased at any level
• Receive $5 for every RENEWAL membership purchased at any level
  

• We conduct all payment transactions and fulfillment. There is no paperwork for you.
• We track all sales to be credited to your school-there is no tracking work for you!
•  We send a check to your school for the amount you’ve earned. Funds will be distributed once a year—by March for sales from January through December of the previous year.
  

How do I enroll my school in Carnegie Cash for Schools?

Simply complete this form and mail or fax it to:

Membership / Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh /
4400 Forbes Ave. / Pittsburgh, PA  15213  (Fax: 412.578.2465)

For questions, please email us.

*** IMPORTANT ***

* Your school must be identified in the transaction for credit to apply, whether automatically (by linking through your school's web site) or manually (by identifying the school name in writing or verbally at the point of sale). 

* If your school is not identified, your school will not receive credit for the sale, no exceptions.  Please be sure that any offline sales meant to benefit your school identify your school's full name and location.  

* Online sales originating from your school's web site will be automatically credited to your school after the registration process is complete. 

* Online sales coming through the Carnegie Museums' Member Center web site without linking from your school's web page first must identify the full school name where indicated for credit to apply to your school.

* This program includes all purchases of Premium, Family, Dual, Individual and Senior memberships, and includes New Memberships, Renewals, and Gift Memberships. Donor/Patron level gifts to the museums (gifts of $350 and above) are not included in the program at this time.

* This program is not valid with any discounts.  Only memberships purchased at full retail price qualify for credit to Carnegie Cash for Schools.  This program does not apply to membership upgrades.

* Memberships purchased through this program or through any other means does not entitle member children to discounts on school field trips.  However, your school is welcome to use the cash generated through this program towards school activities at the museums.

* The rules, guidelines, incentives and/or administration of the Carnegie Cash for Schools program are subject to change.