Common Cents

Common Cents
Company NameCommon Cents
FoundersTeddy Gross and Nora Gross
Key PeopleTeddy Gross and Judith Shapiro
Founded1991
LocationNew York City
TypeNon-Profit
Websitecommoncents.org

Common Cents is a national educational, not-for-profit organization, which specializes in creating and managing service-learning programs for young people between the ages of four and 14.[1] Common Cent's most popular and best known program is The Penny Harvest, the largest child philanthropy program in the United States.[2]

Other Common Cents programs include the Student Community Action Fund (a high school leadership council.)

  1. ^ Lauffer, Armand (1997). Grants, Etc. SAGE. pp. 225–226. ISBN 0-8039-5469-7.
  2. ^ "Inspiring Oprah's charity". The Daily Princetonian. 2007-09-19. Archived from the original on 2008-10-30. Retrieved 2008-04-16.