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Join the Colorado Penny Harvest and Help us Get to 50 Schools!
Are you looking to get your school or child involved in the free Penny Harvest program? We still have spots available for the 2010-11 school year, which kicks off in September. Contact Amber for more information: agerding@ypfoundation.org
Colorado Penny Harvesters have granted more than $100,000 over the past 3 years to nonprofits, schools, and individuals in need!
Between 2007 and 2010, students from across the state gathered $114,675.29 in pennies and made 243 community grants, in addition to completing 39 neighborhood service projects. Find out where they have granted the money under the "Organization" Tab.
Penny Harvest Students Grant $52,159.00 to 105 different organizations!
Roundtable Leaders from 43 Colorado schools spent several months researching community needs, interviewing nonprofit professionals, and making funding decisions on behalf of their entire school. In addition to the 105 organizations funded, several Colorado schools participated in the first-ever National Penny Harvest Disaster Relief Fund to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Click here for more info: www.PennyHarvest.org/HelpingHaiti
Colorado Schools Harvest $53,178.33 during the 2009/10 Penny Harvest!
43 schools collectively harvested coins for more than 2 months for this year's Penny Harvest. Each school will continue into the Roundtable phase with at least $1,000 for their grant-making budget. Stay tuned to see where the students decide to grant all of that money!
Colorado Welcomes 43 Schools to the 2009/10 Penny Harvest!
The Penny Harvest has expanded in 2009/10 from 31 schools to 43 schools across the Greater Front Range. We are pleased to welcome the St. Vrain Valley School District and Aurora Publi to this year's program!! 10 school districts, and a handful of private schools are gearing up for their Kick-Off Assemblies, and the Harvesting Phase, with a goal to beat last year's Harvest total of $38,996.96!!
Roxborough Intermediate on TV!
Check out some of the Roxborough Intermediate students and the YPF staff on TV HERE!
Highlights of the 2008-2009 school year
- 89 grants were made by students this past school year totaling $38,996.96
- For a list of grant recipients click here
The 2009-2010 Penny Harvest is almost filled up, so make sure to sign your school up for this years Penny Harvest ASAP!
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Young Philanthropists Foundation administers the Penny Harvest in Colorado in coordination with Common Cents
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Home > Penny Harvest > Location > Colorado > Coaches > Global Relief > Past Issues
Each year, Common Cents highlights an issue of global significance to provide educational resources and partner organizations for Penny Harvest students to get smart, make grants and take action around the global issue. Here you can find all the lessons and grantee organizations from previous years.
Find out about the Global Relief Conference that took place from 2001 - 2006.
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The Global Relief Conference 2001-2006
From 2001 – 2006, Common Cents organized The Global Relief Conference, a day-long conference for middle and high school students from participating Penny Harvest schools. At each conference, over 125 Penny Harvest student-delegates would listen to presentations from a select group of organizations, meet in small groups to discuss funding criteria and decide which projects to fund. The money allocated at the conference was made up of small donations from roundtables across the city.
Click on the links below for more details on the past Global Relief Conferences, including supplemental lessons to introduce students to the global issue.
Global Relief 2006: Addressing the Needs of Youth in Hurricane-Affected Communities
Common Cents dedicated the 2006 Global Relief Conference to involving youth in the hurricane recovery efforts. One high school leader summarized the goals, “we want to provide humanitarian and civic relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, especially the youth. We want to give them a sense of belonging and leadership so that they have the opportunity to make their community whatever they want it to be.”
Download the K-3 or 4-8 lessons and see below for a short description on the grant recipients. Watch our 2006 Global Relief Conference video with details on the conference.
American Bar Association's Council on Ethnic and Racial Justice - $16,716.22
www.abanet.org/randejustice/
The Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice organized a conference, "Making the Invisible Visible: What Disaster Planners and Responders Need to Know," in New Orleans November 2006. The conference united high school and college students with representatives from the legal and justice professions to explore how class, race and ethnicity can affect disaster plans and responses.
Ashé Cultural Center - $19,527.03
www.ashecac.org
The Ashé Cultural Center engaged young people in rebuilding their neighborhoods affected by Hurricane Katrina. Students from three schools in New Orleans collaborated with professional architects and urban planners to plan and design their vision of a clean, safe and healthy city.
Neighborhood Story Project - $16,824.32
www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org
The Neighborhood Story Project is a community documentary project based in New Orleans. Over the course of eighteen months, New Orleans teenagers worked to publish books about their changed communities through personal accounts and interviews with neighbors and family members.
Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA) - $24,932.43
www.yayainc.org
YA/YA is a New Orleans-based youth arts organization that integrates studio arts, entrepreneurship training and leadership development as modes of empowerment for youth. Their project "Kids Rethinking New Orleans' Schools" provided students a role in redesigning the public school system through large public arts projects.
YA/YA also received the "Get Our Story Out Bonus" at the end of the conference. They were selected as the finalist organization that most exemplified the conference's vision for youth involvement in the rebuilding and recovery.
Total: $78,000
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Global Relief 2005: Humanitarian Aid for the Families and Children of Darfur, Sudan
Download the Common Cents Global Relief Lessons and see below for a short description on the grant recipients.
Lesson One: Marie in the Shadow of the Lion
Lesson Two: Is Genocide Taking Place in Darfur?
Lesson Three: Preparing for the Conference
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) - $12,384.35
www.ajws.org
American Jewish World Service is committed to supporting community organizations in the ongoing process of empowering women and strengthening civil society. Through grant-making, AJWS aims to link basic human rights to development, creating a greater potential to bring about social change. To date AJWS has raised almost $500,000 for people affected by the crisis in Darfur but the continuing needs are overwhelming.
Cooperative for Relief Assistance Everywhere (CARE) - $15,579.76
www.careusa.org
CARE is one of the world's largest international humanitarian organizations; operating in more than 70 countries around the world, CARE works with communities to confront the underlying causes of poverty, and find sustainable ways for people to improve their lives.
Peace and Development Fund (DPDF) - $19,335.58
www.darfurpeaceanddevelopment.org
Darfur Peace and Development Fund is a nongovernmental, nonprofit and nonsectarian organization with a mission of promoting reconciliation and peaceful coexistence, achieving sustainable development, and advocating for human rights in Darfur.
US Fund For UNICEF (United Nations' International Children's Emergency Fund) - $15,283.64
www.unicefusa.org
Guided by commitment to build a world fit for children, the U.S Fund for UNICEF works to advocate for the world's children, increase awareness among the U.S. public of children's needs and raise funds in support for UNICEF's work.
TOTAL: $62,583.33
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Global Relief 2004: Landmine Victim Assistance and Education
Adopt-A-Minefield - $14,262.66
www.landmines.org
Adopt-A-Minefield® is a program of the United Nations Association of the USA, which engages individuals, community groups, and businesses in the United Nations effort to resolve the global landmine crisis. The Campaign helps save lives by raising funds for mine clearance and survivor assistance and by raising awareness about the landmine problem.
Vietnam Veterans of America - $16,045.04
www.vvaf.org
VVAF's Campaign for a Landmine Free World has, for more than a decade, worked to raise awareness about the suffering and devastation caused by landmines by advocating for a global ban on antipersonnel landmines.
Landmine Survivors Network - $16,178.08
www.landminesurvivor.org
Landmine Survivors Network has empowered thousands of people worldwide to reclaim their lives after suffering landmine injuries. To help people complete the arduous journey to recovery, LSN's integrated programs focus on meeting victims' basic human, encouraging employment and economic independence via job counseling, vocational training, access to physical rehabilitation, and assistance in starting their own businesses.
Clear Path International - $20,711.22
www.clearpathinternational.org
Clear Path International was formed by a group of friends with a wealth of relief-work experience in Vietnam and other parts of Asia. Originally formed as a landmine and bomb removal organization, the Board of Directors recognized the need for a professional non-profit organization to undertake landmine and UXO victim assistance activities in Southeast Asia.
TOTAL: $67,197
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Global Relief 2003: AIDS Education in the Caribbean
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent - $11,120
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization. Founded in 1919, the International Federation comprises 178 member Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, a Secretariat in Geneva and more than 60 delegations strategically located to support activities around the world.
JHPIEGO - $19,198
Through advocacy, education and performance improvement, JHPIEGO helps host-country policymakers, educators and trainers increase access and reduce barriers to quality health services, especially family planning and maternal and neonatal care, for all members of their society. In Latin America and the Caribbean, JHPIEGO works in close partnership with reproductive health leaders to strengthen national training and service delivery networks.
US Fund for UNICEF - $19,546.31
The mission of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF is to promote the survival, protection, and development of all children worldwide through fundraising, advocacy, and education. UNICEF not only believes that decisive steps are necessary to effectively take on the HIV/AIDS crisis, they have been taking decisive action since the early days of the pandemic. UNICEF was one of the six United Nations agencies that came together to found UNAIDS in 1996. With the assistance of UNICEF and other UN agencies, UNAIDS has become the leading advocate for worldwide action against HIV/AIDS.
House of Hope - $17,139.23
The House of Hope Society is in St. Vincent. The organization was set up in November 1999 to provide care for those suffering with HIV/AIDS and also to do outreach to the community about HIV/AIDS. They provide residential care for a maximum of about 5 individuals who have been rejected by their families as a result of the disease.
Total: $67,003.64
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Global Relief 2002: Afghani YouthOxfam America – $11,600
Oxfam America is dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice around the world. We work to eliminate the root causes of social and economic inequities by challenging the structural barriers that foster conflict and human suffering and limit people from gaining the skills, resources, and power to become self-sufficient.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) -$17,050
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan. RAWA's objective is to involve an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women's human rights and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on democratic and secular values in Afghanistan. Despite the suffocating political atmosphere, RAWA very soon became involved in widespread activities in different socio-political arenas including education, health and income generation as well as political agitation.
US Fund for UNICEF – $18,550
The mission of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF is to promote the survival, protection, and development of all children worldwide through fundraising, advocacy, and education. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is one of 37 national committees set up around the world to raise money for UNICEF, which works in 158 countries and territories providing health care, clean water, improved nutrition, and education to millions of children in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
International Rescue Committee – $8,800
The International Rescue Committee is among the world's largest non-profit, non-sectarian, voluntary agencies providing assistance to refugees, displaced persons and others fleeing persecution and violent conflict.
It was founded in 1933 at the suggestion of Albert Einstein to assist opponents of Hitler. Since that time, the IRC has been a source of relief, hope and renewal for millions of people around the globe.
Total: $56,000
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Global Relief 2001: Earthquake Relief in IndiaAMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) – $11,800
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is one of the few private voluntary organizations of Third World origin, being founded in India in 1965. Its original objective was to help meet the needs of victims of disasters that regularly hit the Indian sub-continent. Over the years AMURT has established teams in eighty countries, to create a network that can meet development and disaster needs almost anywhere in the world.
Oxfam America – $13,200
Oxfam America is dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice around the world. We work to eliminate the root causes of social and economic inequities by challenging the structural barriers that foster conflict and human suffering and limit people from gaining the skills, resources, and power to become self-sufficient.
US Fund for UNICEF – $15,000
The mission of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF is to promote the survival, protection, and development of all children worldwide through fundraising, advocacy, and education. The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is one of 37 national committees set up around the world to raise money for UNICEF, which works in 158 countries and territories providing health care, clean water, improved nutrition, and education to millions of children in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Total: $40,000
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