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December 10, 2007, 3:06 pm
Making Cents, for Children, at Rockefeller Center
By Sewell Chan
One million dollars — give or take a few cents — landed at Rockefeller Center today.
Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, joined more than 300 elementary and middle school students from New York to unveil the “Penny Harvest Field,” an exhibition featuring an estimated 100 million pennies, most of them collected by children, between Oct. 22 and Thanksgiving.
The pennies have been placed on a pedestrian walkway between 50th and 51st Streets, and Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. The Harvest Field, as was explained in a Times article by Vincent M. Mallozzi last week, was designed by the architect James S. Polshek and sponsored by Tishman Speyer, the company that controls Rockefeller Center. It will be open free to the public every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Dec. 31.
The exhibit is the culmination of the 17th annual Penny Harvest, a national, yearlong education program by Common Cents, a nonprofit group that encourages civic engagement among young people.
Early next year, most of the pennies will be returned to the students — who, with the help of their teachers, will decide which charities to give the money, too. Last year, 448,768 Penny Harvest students in New York City collected $643,840.83 in pennies from their neighbors and relatives, and that money went to make 1,361 grants and support 315 neighborhood service projects. Common Cents anticipates similar levels of giving this year.
December 10, 2007, 3:06 pm
Making Cents, for Children, at Rockefeller Center
By Sewell Chan
One million dollars — give or take a few cents — landed at Rockefeller Center today.
Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, joined more than 300 elementary and middle school students from New York to unveil the “Penny Harvest Field,” an exhibition featuring an estimated 100 million pennies, most of them collected by children, between Oct. 22 and Thanksgiving.
The pennies have been placed on a pedestrian walkway between 50th and 51st Streets, and Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. The Harvest Field, as was explained in a Times article by Vincent M. Mallozzi last week, was designed by the architect James S. Polshek and sponsored by Tishman Speyer, the company that controls Rockefeller Center. It will be open free to the public every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Dec. 31.
The exhibit is the culmination of the 17th annual Penny Harvest, a national, yearlong education program by Common Cents, a nonprofit group that encourages civic engagement among young people.
Early next year, most of the pennies will be returned to the students — who, with the help of their teachers, will decide which charities to give the money, too. Last year, 448,768 Penny Harvest students in New York City collected $643,840.83 in pennies from their neighbors and relatives, and that money went to make 1,361 grants and support 315 neighborhood service projects. Common Cents anticipates similar levels of giving this year.
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