Common Cents

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Company NameCommon Cents
Founders Teddy Gross and Nora Gross
Key People Teddy Gross and Judith Shapiro
Founded1991
LocationNew York City
Type Non-Profit
Website commoncents.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]

Contents

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

History

Common Cents grew from the desire of a four-year-old Nora Gross (co-founder) to feed a homeless man in 1990. That need led her to ask her father (Teddy Gross Co-founder and executive director), how she could help. [3] In 1990, Teddy Gross and Nora Gross conducted the first Penny Harvest in an effort to collect money to feed and clothe New York City's homeless.

Awards

Common Cents is the winner of the 2007 NY1 New Yorker of the Year award. [4] Common Cents was also shortlisted for the 2007 Carl Bertelsmann's Award.

Leadership

The organization's co-founder and executive director is Teddy Gross.

Funding

Common Cents receives major funding from several major foundations and the government including: The Ford Foundation, Foundation for Jewish Community, JPMorgan Chase, The New York City Council, The New York City Department of Education.

Board of directors

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by NY1's New Yorker of the Year
2007
Succeeded by