Check out some video reflections on our blog from the Penny Harvest at PS 163!
Stay tuned for more on the Second Annual Penny Harvest Run for Change! on April 29, 2012!
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Philanthropy Fever Sweeps the South Bronx
Principal Amy Andino at the new Academy of Public Relations in the South Bronx witnessed the mature leadership of her Penny Harvest students and realized these students could make other important decisions for their school. She was so impressed with their leadership that she made them the school’s first student counsel.
It all started when the school’s “Penny People”–students nominated from each home room–presented ideas to the school about where to find pennies...
Common Cents recently received a grant from the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations. Common Cents and The Rothschild Foundation have a shared passion for philanthropy and education.
On Saturday, April 30th, the first annual Penny Harvest Run for Change! kicked off with a day along Hudson River Park of honoring youth service as New York City students, teachers and supporters of Common Cents turned up in what has, in only twenty years, become the largest child philanthropy program in the country which emphasizes service-learning through school communities. Since 1991, Penny Harvest students have contributed $8.6 million to improve their neighborhoods in areas of health, environment, human rights, disaster relief, children and the elderly.
Why does the portrait of Abraham Lincoln face to the right when all of the other presidents' portraits face to the left? Lincoln faces right not because of a law, but simply because Lincoln happened to face right in the image Brenner used to design the coin.
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Principal Amy Andino at the new Academy of Public Relations in the South Bronx witnessed the mature leadership of her Penny Harvest students and realized these students could make other important decisions for their school. She was so impressed with their leadership that she made them the school’s first student counsel.
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