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Join the 2012 Run for Change! Create your profile and recruit your team today, keep the Penny Harvest going and growing in your school for years to come. Spring Madness: Roundtables are meeting across the city debating important community needs! Visit the Coaches Page for tips and tools. 2011 Penny Pick-up, Check back every day to see the pennies add up! March 29 2011 Penny Harvest coach defies the impossible with her colleagues. Brooklyn P.H. coach guns for #1 Run for Change! team. March 28 2011 A Drop in the Ocean: A Conversation to Prove the Power of One NYC Middle school: why bother caring? Check out the issue of Time Magazine for Kids featuring the Penny Harvest (pdf)! Visit our blog to keep up with what's happening at Common Cents! Find us elswhere online:

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“Our students became so very committed to helping us with our mission that they decided to continue to collect after turning in their Penny Harvest money. Our staff was so very impressed and awed by the power of the children and the power of the Penny Harvest organization to really make a difference for us.”
-Edie Agai, Community Outreach Coordinator, Sunrise Day Camp

Engage students in direct service opportunities

Service opportunities allow students to learn by doing, better understand your work, and provide you with needed help! They offer a great way to preserve the relationship because a service project can occur anytime of the year.

Think about talents that are unique to students: They can do arts and crafts, put on plays, organize collection drives, plant flowers, clean up parks, create care packages, etc. For example:

• PS 88 in Queens and their local senior center have formed a book club, and seniors and students meet once a month to talk about a book they have both read.

• PS 61 in the Bronx creates packages full of toys and games for children at a local shelter. When they deliver the packages, they perform a play for the residents.

• Habitat for Humanity has students make welcome cards to greet families moving into new homes.

• Students can be great advocates for your organization: Have them write to donors, elected officials, board members, or simply, their peers, about why they’re passionate about your work. Check out this example from the Humane Society's newsletter.

• Connect with other departments: If it’s hard for you to engage students in service, someone may be able to think of a project that helps your mission and deepens student impact. For example:

Kathie Lombardi, Coordinator of External Events & National Partnerships, connected with her Communications Department to design a service project that would also give publicity to Make-A-Wish. For every wish that is granted in New York City, students plant a flower in a local park and mark it with a plaque explaining the wish. A win-win project for Make-A-Wish and students.

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