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Are you an NYC Principal? We need your help. Sign-up for the 2010-11 Penny Harvest Global Relief Fund: Haiti Rebuild & Recover - Over $27,000 donated from Penny Harvest schools around the country  NYC Parents: Learn about our first Parent Harvest. Learn about how you can help support the Penny harvest at your child's school. Penny Harvest students in Staten Island draw support for local charities (video included). April 20, 2009 - Today Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his plan for NYC Service. Learn how Common Cents is partnering with the city. Sign-up for our e-newsletter to stay involved.

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“THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY”

The Philanthropy Roundtable builds connections between your students, the school and the community. As students consider the communities they belong to and become more aware of the issues that affect these communities, they often select issues of global significance.

To enhance the learning about global issues, Common Cents selects one issue of global concern that becomes the subject of intensive study, philanthropy and action. Common Cents writes curriculum lessons to educate roundtable students on the issue and invites each roundtable to allocate a portion of their Penny Harvest funds to address this issue.

This year, the issue is “Haiti Rebuild and Recover." Check out our official 2010 Global Relief Page for resources for your roundtable and download The Action Guide for Student Leaders.

We realize many students may be concerned and want to help people affected by the recent earthquakes in Chile, Taiwan and Turkey.  Use the guide below for tips or contact our office at 212-579-0579. 

To help focus the students’ global philanthropy, we suggest that you “think globally and act locally.” You can do this by:

1. Reminding the students where the pennies came from and of their responsibility to their local community.
    
2. Discussing needs within global issues.  If students identify a natural disaster outside of the community, help them understand the needs associated with the disaster and confront those needs locally (i.e. after Hurricane Katrina, many people were without homes- ask students ‘is homelessness an issue in our own community?’)
    
3. Researching local communities who are affected by the issue (i.e. after the Asian Tsunami of 2004, many roundtables helped local communities whose families were affected).
    
4. Finding a local chapter of a larger organization that works on the issue the students have selected. This will allow your students to make face-to-face connections with local professionals committed to helping.

Also, you can learn more about all past global issues. Check out information on past grant recipients, the Global Relief Conference and past Global Relief Lessons. Tip: past issues include Hurricane Katrina and the genocide in Darfur; resources are still available to explore these issues with students.

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