On December 10th, 2007 we will celebrate the Penny Harvest Field at Rockefeller Center and honor the Penny Harvest’s earliest friends.
Cocktails, Buffet and Silent Auction The Pegasus Suite of the Rainbow Room 30 Rockefeller Center – 64th Floor 6:00 – 9:00 pm Contact Erin Shakespeare (shakespeare@CommonCents.org) for more information.
Kick-off across the country! On October 22nd, over 500,000 students in 951 schools in NYC/Metro NY, the Capital Region of NY, Colorado, Florida, Nashville, TN and Seattle, WA all started the Penny Harvest. Up until Thanksgiving, students will be gathering the pennies that will later be given away to organizations of their choice.
Attention all Alumni: We are pleased to announce the launch of our Alumni Network! We hope that this initiative will provide members of the Common Cents and Penny Harvest community - past and present - opportunities to reconnect with the organization, network with one another and participate in our tremendous growth. Stay tuned for more information about volunteer opportunities, alumni events and more.
To join, or share your ideas about the network, please contact Leena Soman atleena.soman@gmail.com. All suggestions are welcome!
Oprah Winfrey Show featuring Common Cents to re-air this Thanksgiving!
Common Cents had a busy summer! Not only was the Penny Harvest credited as being the inspiration for Oprah’s Angel Network, but we were one of four international finalists for the prestigious 2007 Carl Bertelsmann Prize, 'Civic Engagement as an Educational Goal.' Stay tuned for the re-airing of The Oprah Winfrey Show episode featuring Common Cents on Thanksgiving, and check out this YouTube video about all the 2007 Carl Bertelsmann Prize finalists, including Common Cents.
Come to the Penny Harvest Field at Rockefeller Center December 10-31, 2007
This year, for the first time ever, all the pennies our students will collect - an estimated 100 million pennies! - will be displayed in a monumental installation at Rockefeller Center, at the Penny Harvest Field.
The installation will be on view December 10th-31st, and will serve to thank New York’s children for their generosity and community involvement over the past 16 years.
Be sure to visit the penny field in December. Throughout the month we will have a special section of our website devoted the Penny Harvest Field. Be sure to check www.CommonCents.org regularly to keep up-to-date on what’s happening, and learn how to support our city’s youngest philanthropists.
