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 happy Thanksgiving from Common Cents!
Common Cents wishes your family a very Happy Thanksgiving! We are giving thanks for our Penny Harvest students, who are working especially hard this year to help the neediest in their communities.
 A Neighbor Harvest Grows in Brooklyn
Knock, knock, knock. “Penny Harvest! We’ve come for the pennies!”
Debra and Elizabeth Richardson rap on doors in their Brooklyn apartment building, smiling and chatting with their neighbors while lugging a large bucket full of pennies door to door. The mother-daughter team is “neighbor harvesting,” visiting families in their building to collect pennies for the Penny Harvest at MS 381, where Elizabeth is in the sixth grade.
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 Every Penny Counts!
At PS 335, an elementary school deep in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, a group of fifteen young actors waited anxiously backstage. As part of PS 335’s “mid-harvest assembly” – an event to motivate the whole school to reach Penny Harvest’s 25 sack challenge – these young leaders were about to perform Elgin’s Jar, a play based on a storybook written by Common Cents executive director, Teddy Gross.
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An Accidental Icon: How One Child Transformed Himself through the Penny Harvest
 Two years ago, fourth grader Jonathan Difo had his picture taken. That photo, snapped outside a New York food pantry, ended up on tops of taxi cabs in New York and Las Vegas, printed on pamphlets mailed out nationally, and as the poster image for a national non-profit.
All of a sudden, Jonathan was a little famous.
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Save the Date: Common Cents Third annual Bowl-A-Thon!
Date: Tuesday February 10, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Place: Bowlmor Lanes, 110 University Place, New York, NY
Come bowl with your friends and co-workers, have fun and raise money for Common Cents! More information coming soon!
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Tallahassee Democrat - 11/25/08
Letters to the editor: "You want change?"
10 elementary schools in Leon County, students collect an estimated total of 1 million pennies (that's $10,000, or 7,000 pounds of pennies!)
News 10 Now - 11/20/08
Students collect pennies for charity (video included)
Students at Colton-Pierrepont Central in Colton, New York collect pennies for the Penny Harvest.
This Week Community Newspapers - 11/19/08
Students 'harvest' pennies for charity
Students in Worthington, Ohio collect pennies for the penny Harvest.
Worthington News - 11/12/08
Coppery Coin collection will help kids' favorite charities
Students at two elementary in Worthington, Ohio collect pennies for the penny Harvest.
West Seattle Herald - 11/04/08
Students scrounge for idle pennies
58 schools in the West Seattle join over 1,000 schools nationwide in the Penny Harvest.
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