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	Run for Change!
	Penny Harvest Field

Colorado Penny Harvest Students have collected $56,342.81 SO FAR! 38 of our Colorado sites have collected $56,342.81 so far and we're still going! This year, 5 schools are participating in a Penny Harvest pilot program, beginning their harvest in January, and depositing in February. The next steps are to identifying issues that their communities care about and interviewing potential organizations that the kids will ultimately deem worthy of their hard-earned money.  Congratulations to all of the students, teachers, and parents who spent months collecting almost 17 tons of pennies! Are you an organization wishing to get involved with Penny Harvest? Click on the Organization Tab, then "Organization Profiles" for information on how to fill out an Organization Profile and be featured on our website. Join the Penny Harvest! The Penny Harvest is a free, school-based citizenship and leadership service-learning program that integrates with the school calendar.  Students harvest “idle pennies”, use those funds to make micro-grants to nonprofit organizations, and engage in corresponding service projects. Unlike other coin harvesting programs, Penny Harvest gives students total autonomy to decide where the money should go.Currently running in 43 Colorado schools, the program has 3 main phases: Harvest Pennies (October – December) Make Grants (January – April) Volunteer (April – June)   To Sign up your school online visit www.pennyharvest.org/signupcolorado For more information, contact Kelly Hayes at 720-221-9218 or khayes@ypfoundation.org. Colorado Penny Harvesters have granted more than $100,000 over the past 3 years to nonprofits, schools, and individuals in need! Between 2007 and 2010, students from across the state gathered $114,675.29 in pennies and made 243 community grants, in addition to completing 39 neighborhood service projects. Find out where they have granted the money under the "Organization" Tab.   Penny Harvest Students Grant $52,159.00 to 105 different organizations in 2009/2010! Roundtable Leaders from 43 Colorado schools spent several months researching community needs, interviewing nonprofit professionals, and making funding decisions on behalf of their entire school. In addition to the 105 organizations funded, several Colorado schools participated in the first-ever National Penny Harvest Disaster Relief Fund to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Click here for more info: www.PennyHarvest.org/HelpingHaiti Colorado Schools Harvest $53,178.33 during the 2009/10 Penny Harvest! 43 schools collectively harvested coins for more than 2 months for this year's Penny Harvest. Each school will continue into the Roundtable phase with at least $1,000 for their grant-making budget. Stay tuned to see where the students decide to grant all of that money! Roxborough Intermediate on TV! Check out some of the Roxborough Intermediate students and the YPF staff on TV HERE!

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Young Philanthropists Foundation Young Philanthropists Foundation administers the Penny Harvest in Colorado in coordination with Common Cents

“THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY”

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 “Hunger and the Global Food Crisis" Check out our official 2009 Global Issue webpage for resources for your roundtable and download The Action Guide for Student Leaders.

To help focus the students’ global philanthropy, we suggest that you “think globally and act locally.” You can do this by:

1. Reminding the students where the pennies came from and of their responsibility to their local community.
    
2. 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?’)
    
3. 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).
    
4. 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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