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Home > Common Cents Receives Grant from State Farm’s Youth Advisory Board
February 24, 2009
On Monday, February 23rd, Youth Advisory Board Laura Mantell presented a $100,000 check to Executive Director, Teddy Gross, in support of Common Cents’ service-learning initiatives. The ceremony, which also featured the other NYC-based recipient, Children for Children, took place at PS 1 Alfred E. Smith School, a Penny Harvesting elementary school in Manhattan.
Each year State Farm Insurance Company gathers thirty students, ages 17-20, from across the United States and Canada to make up the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. These young people are charged with helping State Farm design and implement a $5 million-a-year signature service-learning initiative to address issues important to State Farm and communities across the United States and Canada.
This year, Common Cents was one of 68 organizations to receive service-learning, youth-led grants across the United States and Canada, out of the more than 300 grant requests that were received.
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Check Presentation
From L-R: Carolin Irvin, State Farm public affairs manager; Representative from Assemblyman Sheldon Silver; Mei Lei Fu, State Farm; Representative from United Federation for Teachers; Sue Sampson, State Farm insurance representative of public affairs; Michele Mehler, State Farm vice president of operations; Teddy Gross, Common Cents executive director; Laura Mantell, State Farm Youth Advisory Board member; Amy Hom, PS1 principal. |
“We are thrilled that the State Farm Youth Advisory Board, not unlike the young decision-makers of the Penny Harvest, has chosen to support Common Cents’ work,” says Founder and Executive Director Teddy Gross. “We are so excited that service-learning is being celebrated through these grants, as we have seen year after year the profound academic and social benefits children have from this experience.”
See more photos from the presentation ceremony.
Read the State Farm press release.
Learn more about the Youth Advisory Board.
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