4.27.2010 - Students debate ways to use small change to make a big impact
"I agree people in Haiti need our help. Lots of people lost their homes and were hurt, but they can get their homes back. What about kids in Columbus who may lose their lives to cancer? They really need our help too and maybe even more than the people in Haiti."
This is just one example of the passionate opinions being expressed in classrooms, school libraries and cafeterias at elementary schools across Columbus and Worthington as students participate...
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Columbus Parent Magazine
3.23.2010 - Students empowered to help others through Penny Harvest
Students, schools, and the community at large will all see big benefits from the millions of pennies gathered locally in a service learning program called the Penny Harvest. This school year nearly 7,500 elementary students from 19 Columbus and Worthington City schools are participating in the program.
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Columbus Parent Magazine
2.17.10 - Crimson Cup signs on for Penny Harvest program
Crimson Cup on North High Street has signed on to support Colerain Elementary School in Clintonville for the Penny Harvest, a yearlong service learning program that empowers students to become engaged in their communities.
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ThisWeek Community Newspapers
11.03.09 - Local charities will reap bounty of schools' Penny Harvest
Worthington students will be among the 7,000 students from Worthington and Columbus schools breaking piggy
banks, looking under couch cushions and car seats and going door to door to ask for pennies for the Penny Harvest
program.
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Worthington News
1.19.09 - Children decide how to help their community with 1.5 Million pennies.
Students from seven area elementary schools in the Columbus City and Worthington school districts are faced with an exciting challenge. They must decide how to help their community by giving away over 1.5 million pennies. This fall, nearly 3,000 students went door-to-door with their families, to connect with neighbors, raise money and help others. The students raised $15,114.16; nearly all of it in pennies or spare change. These students are the first in Columbus to participate in a year-long service learning program called the Penny Harvest. The Penny Harvest is the nation's largest youth philanthropy program and it is being introduced to Columbus by a local nonprofit, See Kids Dream.
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Columbus Parent Magazine
12.08.08 - Kid's coins add up for charity
Students from several local elementary schools gathered yesterday at Columbus' Devonshire Alternative Elementary to celebrate the philanthropic efforts of more than 3,000 central Ohio children.
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The Columbus Dispatch - Garrett Downing
11.19.08 - Students 'harvest' pennies for charity
Students from four Worthington elementary schools are collecting pennies to make change in the world.
Neighbors and friends of students at Granby, Liberty, Slate Hill, and Wilson Hill elementary schools can expect to be asked to donate their spare change to the students participating in a pilot of Penny Harvest, a nationwide program that allows young children to become philanthropists and to see how their efforts can make a difference.
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ThisWeek Community Newspaper - Candy Brooks
11.12.08 - Coppery coin collection will help kids' favorite charities
A passion for pennies is sweeping over two Worthington elementary schools as students help out local charities with a month-long Penny Harvest.
Granby and Wilson Hill elementary schools both kicked off Penny Harvest drives during assemblies held Friday, Nov. 7, asking students to begin collecting pennies and consider which organizations will receive donations.
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Worthington News - Pamela Willis