Colorado
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Colorado Penny Harvest Students have collected $56,342.81 SO FAR!
38 of our Colorado sites have collected $56,342.81 so far and we're still going! This year, 5 schools are participating in a Penny Harvest pilot program, beginning their harvest in January, and depositing in February. The next steps are to identifying issues that their communities care about and interviewing potential organizations that the kids will ultimately deem worthy of their hard-earned money.
Congratulations to all of the students, teachers, and parents who spent months collecting almost 17 tons of pennies!
Are you an organization wishing to get involved with Penny Harvest? Click on the Organization Tab, then "Organization Profiles" for information on how to fill out an Organization Profile and be featured on our website.
Join the Penny Harvest!
The Penny Harvest is a free, school-based citizenship and leadership service-learning program that integrates with the school calendar. Students harvest “idle pennies”, use those funds to make micro-grants to nonprofit organizations, and engage in corresponding service projects. Unlike other coin harvesting programs, Penny Harvest gives students total autonomy to decide where the money should go.Currently running in 43 Colorado schools, the program has 3 main phases:
Harvest Pennies (October – December)
Make Grants (January – April)
Volunteer (April – June)
To Sign up your school online visit www.pennyharvest.org/signupcolorado
For more information, contact Kelly Hayes at 720-221-9218 or khayes@ypfoundation.org.
Colorado Penny Harvesters have granted more than $100,000 over the past 3 years to nonprofits, schools, and individuals in need!
Between 2007 and 2010, students from across the state gathered $114,675.29 in pennies and made 243 community grants, in addition to completing 39 neighborhood service projects. Find out where they have granted the money under the "Organization" Tab.
Penny Harvest Students Grant $52,159.00 to 105 different organizations in 2009/2010!
Roundtable Leaders from 43 Colorado schools spent several months researching community needs, interviewing nonprofit professionals, and making funding decisions on behalf of their entire school. In addition to the 105 organizations funded, several Colorado schools participated in the first-ever National Penny Harvest Disaster Relief Fund to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Click here for more info: www.PennyHarvest.org/HelpingHaiti
Colorado Schools Harvest $53,178.33 during the 2009/10 Penny Harvest!
43 schools collectively harvested coins for more than 2 months for this year's Penny Harvest. Each school will continue into the Roundtable phase with at least $1,000 for their grant-making budget. Stay tuned to see where the students decide to grant all of that money!
Roxborough Intermediate on TV!
Check out some of the Roxborough Intermediate students and the YPF staff on TV HERE!
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Young Philanthropists Foundation administers the Penny Harvest in Colorado in coordination with Common Cents
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IT'S...service-learning...Community Building...Character Education...Youth Philanthropy...Leadership
 The Penny Harvest is a year-round service-learning program that engages students between the ages of four and 14 in community building, character education and leadership. The processes of philanthropy -- gathering pennies, grant-making, taking action -- introduces students to the power of giving and service, and in turn, students learn they can enact change in their communities.
 BENEFITS TO YOUR SCHOOL
Source: Teacher Survey, Dr. Chris Weiss, the Director of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University
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 WE PROVIDE YOU
- The Penny Harvest is FREE for your school.*
- A Curriculum Guide, which includes academically- integrated lessons, activities and hand-outs
- A Penny Harvest Kit, including penny bags, penny sacks, family guides, leader pins, stickers and posters for every student in your school
- Professional development for the Penny Harvest Coach in your school
- Year-round administrative and logistical support
* Support from our donors covers the full cost of running the program at your school (averaging $1,500 per school). The children donate every penny to a charitable cause.
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- Appoint a charismatic, community-minded teacher or staff member to facilitate the program.
- Start engaging you students in this exciting opportunity!
PENNY HARVEST: IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!
SERVICE-LEARNING
“Penny Harvest is a valuable service-learning initiative that teaches students that they can make a real difference in their community and plants the seed for a lifetime of activism”
- Denise Katz, Teacher, New York, NY
COMMUNITY BUILDING
“Seldom does a program come along that has the ability to impact a school and community to the level that the Penny Harvest does. Parents consistently tell me that the Penny Harvest is the most worthwhile event that takes place at our school all year!”
-KC Gottschalk, Principal, Albany, NY
 YOUTH PHILANTHROPY
“We work with students who come from very needy families and yet they were excited to share and felt very good about giving back to their communities.”
- Svetlana Mamedova, Teacher, Seattle, WA
LEADERSHIP
“The Penny Harvest experience enhances our students’ decision-making and leadership skills, while fostering a sense of teamwork and collaboration”
- Pat Lieberman, Assistant Principal, New York, NY
CHARACTER BUILDING
“This is learning! It’s about how to help others. This is just as important as reading and writing.”
- Eric Nezowitz, former Principal, Staten Island, NY
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