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What's New at Common Cents and the Penny Harvest
NEW: Join us for SCORE! The Second Annual Bowl-A-Thon to benefit Common Cents at Bowlmor Lanes on June 9, 2008.

NEW: SCAF produces a new video on the 2008 Global Relief Issue of Climate change.

March 31, 2008: Teddy Gross and Judith Shapiro featured speakers at Columbia University Outreach DaSavey event.

February 25, 2008: Teddy Gross featured on independent non-profit/ philanthropic podcast 501c3cast.

January 9, 2008: Common Cents now has a page on YOUTUBE!

Instant Poll
To enhance learning about global issues, we select an issue of global concern that becomes the subject of intensive study, philanthropy and action. The 2008 Global Relief Issue is climate change. What do you think is the main cause of climate change?
Human activity
Natural geological forces
Both A and B
None of the above
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Click the links below to see videos featuring Common Cents and the Penny Harvest:

 


  THE COMMON CENTS PENNY HARVEST:
THE POWER OF CHILDREN. THE PROMISE OF COMMUNITY.
Our new film for 2008 describing the impact of the Penny Harvest on
children and their communities. 


Penny Harvest school W.T Clarke Middle School in Long Island produced the following video on their experience doing the program during the 06/07 school year.
 Bertelsmann Foundation Video
Common Cents was nominated for the prestigious 2007 Carl Bertelsmann Prize: Civic Engagement as an Educational Goal.
This video piece on the Penny Harvest was produced for the award ceremony.

Works of Progress Video
WORKS OF PROGRESS
Describes the work that Common Cents does in the New York City Schools.


2007 GLOBAL RELIEF: Global Access to Education
Members of the Student Community Action Fund – a high school leadership group – urge Philanthropy Roundtables in all Penny Harvest schools to learn more about the 2007 Global Relief issue and take action. The entire video was written, edited and produced by high school students.  

Global Relief Conference 2006 Video
2006 GLOBAL RELIEF CONFERENCE
Members of the Student Community Action Fund (SCAF) Council describe their efforts to organize the Global Relief Conference to address the needs of youth in hurricane-affected areas in the Gulf Coast. Presented at the National Service-Learning Conference, March 2006.

CNN clip
CNN NEWSCASTV
This segment first aired on CNN on Saturday, August 5, 2000.


Oprah 
Our founders Teddy and Nora Gross appear on the "Oprah Winfrey Show".
 
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