10.25.11
(COLUMBUS, OH) – See Kids Dream announced their intention to break the world record for the longest continuous chain of pennies at the Run for a Dream last Saturday. A group of students participating in See Kids Dream’s service learning program the Penny Harvest along with their families and other community volunteers laid a “test mile of pennies” at the event. The volunteers laid the 84,480 pennies in just less than 3 hours on the track at Thomas Worthington High School. The students and the staff at See Kids Dream learned a lot from the test that will help them as they prepare to set a new world record at the Columbus Arts Festival during the summer of 2012.
See Kids Dream set the goal to lay the penny chain to help celebrate the 2012 Columbus Bicentennial and more importantly to build awareness and symbolize what students can do when they are given the opportunity to lead and to help. Through the Penny Harvest, students during the 2011-201 school year, just as they have the past three years, will be collecting change and then after researching local issues, they will give it all back to address the community needs they choose. Through the process the students build self-confidence, critical thinking, team-work communication and leadership skills. See Kids Dream, hopes that by the spring of 2012, the students will have raised and given away enough money, that if it was laid down as pennies it will set a new world record.
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4.18.11
(COLUMBUS, OH) – See Kids Dream announced today that the Penny Harvest service learning program will be expanded to a total of 50 schools throughout Central Ohio next school year.
The expansion will be made possible through a partnership and grant See Kids Dream was recently awarded by The Columbus Foundation. See Kids Dream is one of three local charities identified as partners to help celebrate Columbus Bicentennial in 2012.
See Kids Dream’s service learning program, the Penny Harvest, was the catalyst for the partnership with The Columbus Foundation. The Penny Harvest puts students in charge of identifying, understanding and addressing the needs of others in our community. The student’s management and direct control of all research and funding decisions is what makes Penny Harvest unique in comparison to other programs that engage students in fundraising or service.
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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