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Common Cents is the new home to Katherine Cho, Candace Detrotoia, David Dillon, Joshua Khan and Ashley Prather, members of New York City Civic Corps, a service program launched last year by Mayor Bloomberg. NYC Civic Corps members are placed in various local organizations for the duration of the 2010/2011 school year to help spread the message of New York City volunteerism in local communities.
Penny Harvest students from around the country donate more than $27,000 to help Haiti rebuild and recover from January earthquake
Last week Penny Harvest students voted to donate $27,420, raised by more than 150 Penny Harvest …
This week elementary schools and middle schools across the country, from Seattle to Queens, are voting in the first-ever National Penny Harvest Roundtable to help bring much needed funds to Haiti. Penny Harvest students are …
by Arvin Temkar
Every 26 seconds a child quits high school. This is the dropout epidemic, and it plagues 1.2 million students a year. So far, tactics to improve graduation rates have been rather, it seems, …
by Teddy Gross
We had a memorial service for John H. Hobbs on Friday at the Harvest Club. The largest room at the club was filled to capacity. I was struck by how diverse the …
by Arvin Temkar
Daniel Mozoub, who has been a Penny Harvest coach for eight years at PS 206, knows how to tell a story. His voice and facial expressions keep time with the account— eyes …
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 …
by Arvin Temkar, Common Cents Fellow
The Dalton School on the Upper West Side felt like Santa’s busy workshop last Friday as elementary school children and their parents bustled around the cafeteria separating pennies from nickels, …
