Articles in Community
Each year, Common Cents engages a group of interns to study a global issue of concern to youth and share that knowledge with their peers. This year, our interns studied hunger and they produced a cool and educational video promoting hunger awareness and exploring what the hunger looks like in New York City. The video, titled Faces of Hunger, is available on YouTube!
These are some reflections from our interns.
This is the time year when students across NYC are making grants to organizations in the community. This week we caught up with students at PS 1 in Manhattan who made grants to The American Red Cross, Friends of Karen,New Yorkers for Parks, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Fresh Air Fund, Children’s Aid Society, Westside Campaign Against Hunger, God’s Love We Deliver and Habitat for Humanity.
by Arvin Temkar
In a back room of Manhattan’s James A. Farley Post Office, a stately building boasting a Corinthian colonnade in the middle of one of the city’s largest shopping districts, a group of fifth …
Penny Harvest students at Seattle’s Hawthorne Elementary set off a spirited discussion online earlier this month after The Seattle Times reported that they had decided to use part of the Penny Harvest money they collected to help a disabled homeless man in their neighborhood.
