9 Feb 2006
Funds donated to 32 Non-Profit Agencies
DALLAS-Dallas Independent School District students and Superintendent Michael Hinojosa held a news conference today at 10 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 9, to announce the recipients of more than $44,000 collected during the Common Cents campaign.
Common Cents is a student-led coin collection effort designed to raise money for charity and non-profit organizations while encouraging good citizenship and social responsibility in schoolchildren. Overall, district students have collected almost $260,000 in coins since they started the fund raising efforts eight years ago.
Students from 43 DISD elementary, middle and high schools made presentations to more that 32 local non-profit organizations in the Administration Building Auditorium, 3700 Ross Ave.
Dallas philanthropist Louise Gartner brought the Common Cents program to DISD schools in 1998 to help teach young people about the importance of giving back to society.
The non-profit organization recipients and amounts are:
American Diabetes Association - $250
American Red Cross - $2,059.95
Avance-Dallas - $882.27
Artistic Recreation Therapeutic Services - $100
Bethlehem Foundation - $2,000
Camp Summit - $1,091.03
Child Abuse Prevention Center - $2,171.25
CASA- Court Appointed Special Advocates - $2,842.50
Crises Pregnancy Center of Grand Prairie - $250
Family Place - $1,250
Family Gateway - $1,212
Genesis Women's Shelter - $1,512
Dallas Head Start at Lake June - $400
Hope Cottage - $1,559.25
Jeffries Street Learning Center - $1,000
Launching A Dream - $1462
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society - $2,444.61
Leukemia Texas - $3,828.98
MADD - $1,212
Navidad En El Barrio - $881.27
NEXUS - $250
Oak Cliff Churches for Emergency Aid - $500
Operation Relief Center - $1,000
Promise House - $5,576.21
Reading Is Fundamental at Hawthorne Elementary - $1,000
SPCA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - $1.817.55
Salvation Army - $1,000
Turner 12 - $612
Victims Outreach - $474.95
Vogel Alcove - $1,061
White Rock Center of Hope - $612
Wilkinson Center - $1,191.45