Americans for Common Cents

In addition to Americans for Common Cents, there are other penny-related organizations. Below is a list of some of these groups. If you are aware of others, or wish to have your group listed here, email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Pennies for the Planet

Pennies for the Planet is a nationwide fundraising campaign that aims to motivate
kids in Grades K-6 to make a big conservation difference with small change. This
Audubon initiative, in alliance with Toyota, teaches children about different
creatures and habitats and collecting pennies.

By doing so, kids become engaged in protecting biodiversity and directly supporting
wild places and wild species in need of help.

To learn more or download educational materials for classroom or at-home use, please
visit www.penniesfortheplanet.org

National Audubon Society
225 Varick St., 7th Floor
New York, NY 10014
Contact:
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - Program Director 

Common Cents New York - Turning Pennies into Dollars -- and Dollars into Deeds.

The Common Cents Penny Harvest Program is a year-round series of service-learning activities. It starts in October with the Penny Harvest, where students search their homes and neighborhoods for idle pennies. It continues in January, where schools that meet the "25 sack challenge" receive $1,000 from a Philanthropy Roundtable. Student leaders sit on Philanthropy Roundtables and allocate the money they raised to make grants and fund student-led service projects to help their communities.

Common Cents New York, Inc.
570 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10024
(212) PENNIES (736-6437)
Contact: Ted Gross - Executive Director
www.commoncents.org

Penny Lovers of America

A non-profit group, headed by Richard Barber, has helped send disadvantaged students to college with the pennies collected in its annual National Penny Recycling Campaign. Mr. Barber's goal is to raise one million pounds of pennies, or $ 1.64 million during this campaign.

Penny Lovers of America
P.O. Box 6141
Somerset, NJ 08875-6141
(732) 873-3827
Contact: Richard Barber - President
www.pennylovers.org

Good Cents for Oakland

Good Cents for Oakland is an Oakland, CA based non-profit committed to engaging Oakland school children in community service through penny drives known as Penny Roundups. The group was formed in April 2005 after the founder, Dagmar Serota,
was inspired by the successful Penny Harvest program operated by Common Cents New York. Good Cents currently works with nine Oakland schools, with over 1500 schoolchildren participating in the program. The program's goal is to engage children in community service by helping them become aware of issues in the community, become informed about those issue and then inspire them to become involved in making change.

Good Cents for Oakland
P.O. Box 21290
Oakland, CA 94620-1290
(510) 658-2474
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - Executive Director
www.goodcentsforoakland.org

List of Other Penny Related Sites

• U.S. Mint 
• Coin World 
• Numismatic News