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ENROLL YOUR SCHOOL NOW: Sign up your school and join the 904 schools who have already signed up for the 08/09 school year!

NY1 News (Staten Island) names Penny Harvest students at P.S. 6 in Tottenville New Yorkers of the week.

Long Island Penny Harvest School, W.T. Clarke Middle School, is featured on  ABC-7 News "Above and Beyond: Inspiring Students and Teachers," special.


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Click the links below to see videos featuring Common Cents and the Penny Harvest:

 


  THE COMMON CENTS PENNY HARVEST:
THE POWER OF CHILDREN. THE PROMISE OF COMMUNITY.
Our new film for 2008 describing the impact of the Penny Harvest on
children and their communities. 


Penny Harvest school W.T Clarke Middle School in Long Island produced the following video on their experience doing the program during the 06/07 school year.

 Bertelsmann Foundation Video
Common Cents was nominated for the prestigious 2007 Carl Bertelsmann Prize: Civic Engagement as an Educational Goal.
This video piece on the Penny Harvest was produced for the award ceremony.

Works of Progress Video
WORKS OF PROGRESS
Describes the work that Common Cents does in the New York City Schools.


2007 GLOBAL RELIEF: Global Access to Education
Members of the Student Community Action Fund – a high school leadership group – urge Philanthropy Roundtables in all Penny Harvest schools to learn more about the 2007 Global Relief issue and take action. The entire video was written, edited and produced by high school students.  

Global Relief Conference 2006 Video
2006 GLOBAL RELIEF CONFERENCE
Members of the Student Community Action Fund (SCAF) Council describe their efforts to organize the Global Relief Conference to address the needs of youth in hurricane-affected areas in the Gulf Coast. Presented at the National Service-Learning Conference, March 2006.

CNN clip
CNN NEWSCASTV
This segment first aired on CNN on Saturday, August 5, 2000.


Oprah
 
Our founders Teddy and Nora Gross appear on the "Oprah Winfrey Show".
 
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