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Registration for the 08/09 Florida Penny Harvest is now open! To register, download a form (PDF) and fax a copy to 850-922-2928.
Students in Polk County had a successful Penny Harvest collecting $3,840 to support service-learning and student philanthropy programming to benefit their local community. They were recently featured on Bay News 9, click here for their story. Additionally, thank you to Mid-Florida Federal Credit Union for counting the coins and matching the student's harvest total by donating an additional $3,840 to the Polk County School District.
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Florida Alliance for Student Services (FASS) administers the Penny Harvest in Florida in coordination with Common Cents.
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“THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY”
Also see past global issues
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 “Climate Change: How Does My Community Affect Climate Change and How Does Climate Change Affect My Community?” Check out our official 2008 Global Relief Issue webpage for resources for your roundtable and download our series of exciting Global Relief Lessons.
To help focus the students’ global philanthropy, we suggest that you “think globally and act locally.” You can do this by:
- Reminding the students where the pennies came from and of their responsibility to their local community.
- 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?’)
- 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).
- 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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