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 About Penny Harvest
Penny Harvest, a program of Solid Ground and Common Cents, is a year-round series of service-learning activities that help students apply classroom learning to real-world problems. For over 16 years, Penny Harvest has worked hand-in-hand with schools in Seattle/King County, rallying students to make a difference in their neighborhoods.
The excitement begins in October with a coin drive, where students search their homes and neighborhoods for idle pennies and other coins to donate. It continues in January when each school that meets a “25-Sack Challenge” receives $1,000 to form a Philanthropy Roundtable. Student leaders sit on these roundtables and allocate the money raised to make grants and fund student-led service projects in their communities.
In 11/12 alone, nearly 9,700 students at 40 schools collected
469 canvas sacks (more than 7 tons of coins!) raising a total of $50,496.27. From February through April, all of these schools will convene Philanthropy Roundtables to identify community needs, make grants and complete Neighborhood Service Projects. Every penny collected by students is allocated by students: Kids collect, kids decide.
Anyone passionate about youth philanthropy is encouraged to get involved by donating their time (become a PH volunteer), talent (help raise funds for PH) or treasure (make a monetary donation). To help Penny Harvest reach another child, another school, another community, please contact Mike Beebe, at mikebe@solid-round.org.
Two easy ways to donate to Penny Harvest:
- Monthly check or credit card donations
- One-time donation via Solid Ground's secure online donation form.
To sign up to make MONTHLY donations, click here...
To make a secure, ONLINE, ONETIME gift, click here...
Penny Harvest in the News
- Penny Harvest: A Way to Cultivate a Generation of Youth Philanthropists, 2/5/12 by Elizabeth Ralston, The Inspired Philanthropist blog
- Nurturing a philanthropic community, 12/2/11 by Mike Buchman, Solid Ground Blog
- Penny Harvest Students Care About Animals, 6/25/11, PAWS Blog
- Queen Anne students donate $1,000 to YWCA, 6/20/11, Queen Anne View, Daily news blog
- At Large in Ballard: Quinn Smart, Philanthropist, 5/18/11 by Peggy Sturdivant, Ballard News Tribune
- West Seattle for Japan: Pathfinder’s ‘Penny Harvest’ donation, 4/11/11, West Seattle Blog...
- Penny Harvest teaches children the power of philanthropy, 4/6/11 by Patrick Robinson, West Seattle Herald
- Kids Count! With Penny Harvest, students raise money to help their communities., Dec.'10-Jan. '11 by Laura Dwight, Jacob Langston, Orlando Sentinel & Stephen Blue, Time for Kids
- A kindness not soon forgotten,11/22/10 by Nicole Brodeur, Seattle Times
- Adams School Penny Harvest, 7/28/10, Kids to Kids International Website
- Pennies for PAWS – Penny Harvest Schools Choose Animals, 7/22/10 by Tiffany, Humane Education Coordinator, PAWS Blog
- Harvest of pennies yields food for hungry people, 6/24/10, FISH Food Bank Blog
- Green Gables Elementary's Penny Harvest benefits Friends of the Hylebos and Soldiers' Angels, 6/18/10 by Andy Hobbs, Federal Way Mirror
- Pennies add up for Lawton students, 6/2/10, Magnolia Voice Blog
- Every Penny Counts: Hylebos awarded a Penny Harvest Grant, 5/25/10, Ballard News Tribune
- Fatima students raise funds, 5/20/10, Magnolia Voice Blog
- Penny Harvest Youth Philanthropy Summit, 4/23/10 by Esther Altshul Helfgott, Seattle PI Reader Blogs
- Penny Harvest needs your help, 3/26/10 by Matt Levin, United Way Blog
- Every Penny Counts, 1/14/10 by Yuri Kim, United Way Blog
- Charitable Giving Program Needs Donations, 3/24/10, KCPQ/Q13 Fox News
- A Few Pennies Short, 3/24/10, KCPQ/Q13 Fox News
- At Large in Ballard: Penny for your thoughts, 10/31/09 by Peggy Sturdivant, Ballard News Tribune
- Grade-schoolers use penny donations to help homeless man, 6/2/09 by Linda Shaw, Seattle Times
- Penny Harvest a success at Adams Elementary, 5/27/09, My Ballard (daily news blog for Seattle's Ballard neighborhood)
- The world is in safe hands: 5/7/09, The WaterLog (Water 1st International's blog)
Check out our Penny Harvest video!
This Penny Harvest video was made by a local school,
Adams Elementary!
And one more: Adams Elementary School Kicks off
Penny Harvest 09/10.
Phone: 206.694.6789
TTY: 7.1.1
Email: mikebe@solid-ground.org
FAX: 206.694.6777
Mailing Penny Harvest
Address: Solid Ground
1501 North 45th Street
Seattle, WA 98103-6708
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