The annual Penny Harvest is now underway with an estimated 500,000 students participating in the 19th year of its operation.
Penny Harvest Field at Rockefeller Center in 2007 (Photos courtesy of Common Cents©)
Schools across the nation have signed on to take part in the activity by allowing their students to take an active roll in the process. Through the use of adult coaches, peer leaders, assemblies, etc., kids are asked to volunteer their time to help raise money for their community, one penny at a time.
Those who do participate then go home and ask their family, friends, and neighbors for loose change (as well as donate some themselves) and begin to collect it to be eventually turned back in to their school. Once the coins are compiled, the funds are set aside while those same students take an active part in deciding what do to with the money. Read the rest of this entry »
Colorado students in 31 elementary, middle and high schools collected nearly 3.8 million in pennies, or $37,826.02, for local charities during the 18th annual Penny Harvest.
The Penny Harvest is a national program that comes to fruition each fall when children scour their neighborhood in search of pennies.
Collected pennies are tallied toward year’s end with youthful philanthropy in full stride as students select charities of their choice to help with cash grants and services. Read the rest of this entry »
The UK Post Office© is urging people to stop collecting unwanted foreign coins and instead donate the change to Barnardo’s children’s charity, an organization that directly helps more than 100,000 children, young people and their families every year.
About $784 million (£510 million) in foreign coins is languishing in UK homes, with each adult hanging on to an average of $17 in unwanted coins, the Post Office estimates.
It adds that more than a quarter of British travelers say they hang on to foreign currency when returning from a trip.
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Open your penny jars and start digging through your couch, the 18th annual Penny Harvest is underway and kids need your change. Nearly 500,000 students from across the country have begun scouring for loose pennies and going door-to-door asking for spare cents. But the pennies are not for them, they’re for charity. And best of all, Penny Harvest teaches children about their value in working together, sharing and contributing to society.
From now until Thanksgiving, students between the ages of four and fourteen will call themselves Penny Harvesters as they collect millions of pennies from family, friends and neighbors. All collections are then one hundred percent donated in the form of grants to non-profit organizations student leaders select. From helping the elderly to protecting the environment to over a thousand other worthy charities, the students make the call to where the money goes.
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The Common Cents Penny Harvest Field is a spectacular event with approximately one hundred millions pennies gathered by New York City children in 2007. All the pennies are for charities that the children will select.
Toward the end of each year, the pennies are trucked to the Rockefeller Center in New York City and are placed in a specially engineered and constructed "penny lane".
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Every year New York City children from participating schools collect pennies from family, friends and neighbors.
These pennies don’t make their way into piggy banks or Lincoln coin collections.
Instead, the children put their pennies together and they’re literally trucked to the Penny Harvest Field, an enormous and specially designed penny-holding structure in Rockefeller Center.
It’s here where the children can see the massiveness of their collection and can better grasp how their combined efforts and hard work will pay off for charities they’ll later select.
Several Penny Harvest Field Stats of Success
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