If you haven’t heard yet, the past year has been a slightly less than ideal economic environment for non-profits. Even in Seattle, where a fantastic culture of philanthropy rivals that of any city in the country, charitable organizations of all stripes are being forced to tighten their belts.

Now one of our  favorite youth leadership programs, Solid Ground’s Penny Harvest, is in jeopardy of not being able to continue into the next school year. Established in Seattle in the early 1990′s, Penny Harvest is at…

Do you have pennies lying around? I’ve got them everywhere: in my car, at the office, and in my jacket pockets. Well, a group of local students is taking those pennies and making change – in our community.

Students from 65 schools recently collected more than 14 tons pennies totaling $78,836.45! That’s a 22% increase over last year. That’s pretty amazing and what’s even better is that the students get to decide how to invest those each and every one of those pennies in…