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Home > 840 Schools Gather to Give
November 30, 2006
The gathering pennies phase ends for 842 Penny Harvest schools. Students prepare to make grants to community organizations.
Students in 780 schools in New York City, 14 in the Capital Region of New York, and 48 in Seattle/King County have spent the last month canvassing their neighborhoods to gather pennies for the 06/07 Penny Harvest. Right now trucks are warming up their engines to prepare to haul the nearly 200 tons of pennies to coin counting houses. There are so many pennies that it will be months before we know the exact total gathered this year.
With numbers that large, it can be easy to forget how much goes into the Penny Harvest at each school. At Public School 201 in Queens, NY, students harvested their neighbors despite the worry of one student that her neighbors would be “grouchy” when she knocked on their doors. She was pleasantly surprised at how friendly and supportive the adults in her community were. In response, she distributed thank you notes to her neighbors. Other student leaders in her school assembled a Wheel of Caring to list community needs, related the Penny Harvest to math and social studies lessons, made announcements and posters, organized a Penny Olympics competition, and eventually filled 26 sacks with pennies – often working independent of the Penny Harvest Coach.
Now that students have celebrated Thanksgiving to appreciate the good things in their lives, they turn their attention now to others in their communities most in need. Students are forming Philanthropy Roundtables to allocate the money they’ve raised. We look forward to hearing more stories of their experiences and sharing them with you.
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