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		<title>Welcoming a new group of Fellows!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=505</link>
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		<title>Reflections from our interns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=495</link>
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		<title>Photo Highlights: PS 1 Check Award Ceremony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=484</link>
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		<title>National Penny Harvest Roundtable for Haiti winners announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=476</link>
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		<title>Students Participate in National Roundtable for Haiti Relief</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=459</link>
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		<title>Savion talks about the Penny Harvest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Savion, a Penny Harvest student at PS 163 discusses their Penny  Harvest and how he and other students are impacting their community.
See more videos from the Penny Harvest on our YouTube  Channel.
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		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=453</link>
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		<title>March Photo Highlights from the Penny Harvest</title>
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		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=445</link>
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		<title>Penny Harvest Bag Decorating Competition</title>
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Brown paper lunch sacks, like fuzzy pipe cleaners or construction paper, are versatile tools. They can be used to make puppets, catch grasshoppers, and hold candles, not to mention carry lunches. This year we’ve introduced ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=438</link>
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		<title>Panel of experts tackle dropout crisis in discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=431</link>
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		<title>Remembering John Hobbs, former Common Cents Board Chair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commoncentsblog.org/?p=426</link>
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