At Common Cents, we are on a mission to create innovative solutions and programs that foster children to learn to love themselves, love others and love learning.

We envision making school during a childs compulsory first decade so compelling, indispensible and enjoyable an experience that all our children would willingly sign up for another ten years.

Since the inception of this flagship
program in 1991, participating students
have collected $7.7 million in pennies, awarded 16,114 grants and volunteered 33 million service hours to support causes for children, the environment, healthcare, human rights, the elderly and disaster relief.

Today, nearly 900 schools in broadly reaching areas such as New York, Florida, Ohio, Colorado and Washington participate in the program.

Simply put, our mission is to raise a new generation of informed, capable and caring young citizens by turning pennies into dollars and dollars into deeds.