Where Your Donation Goes
100% of your donation goes directly to building new schools, repairing and improving existing schools, and purchasing equipment such as uniforms, furniture, and school supplies for students and teachers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan.
Without your help, many of these children wouldn’t be able to attend school. Now they have hope for a better future!
Pennies for Peace is a meaningful philanthropic program
Any group interested in the lasting effects of education in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan—especially for girls—can get involved. Pennies for Peace participants have immediate, meaningful impact with every contribution!
Don’t see your organization, club or social group listed below, but have a great idea? Contact us to get involved and discuss next steps.
One penny. A world of change.
- Help your co-workers turn their loose change into meaningful change. Put penny jars in your reception area, on desks, and in conference rooms. Allow employees to dress down, wear flip-flops, or even come to work 30 minutes late when they make a donation!
- Encourage a friendly competition to see which department can collect more pennies.
- Donate a % of purchases for a certain period of time to Pennies for Peace.
- Set an example and match employee giving!
- Make this year about Peace & Giving! So often, we recognize a need and want to help, but we don’t know how. Remember, 100% of the funds raised through Pennies for Peace go directly to funding schools and providing supplies for students in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
- Use the Pennies for Peace toolkit and curriculum to educate Sunday school children about being philanthropists and how they can make a difference.
- Host an event.
Ask your members to bring pennies, or donations of any size, to your book club meeting. One book club opted to donate what they would have spent on treats that night! Take a moment during your meeting to read about the impact of girls education in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Make it personal and fun!
Many troops have charity badges that scouts can earn by participating in Pennies for Peace! Our FREE curriculum and toolkit make it easy for you to manage the program while helping your young leaders understand why they are collecting pennies. Download the lessons and toolkit.
- Donate $1 for every hit, run, goal, lap, basket, strike, serve, hole, or touchdown.
How it works
- Register your Pennies for Peace campaign. It only takes a few minutes.
- Use our toolkit and curriculum, which provides educators with lesson plans, activities, and supporting resources to facilitate authentic learning opportunities for students participating in Pennies for Peace. You will have FREE access to the toolkit and curriculum once you register.
- Begin philanthropic outreach by determining where you would like to have your coin containers. You can cover your coin containers with Pennies for Peace stickers provided in the Pennies for Peace toolkit. Photos are also available if you wish to personalize your container yourselves.
- Notify all the participants, parents, and school officials. Alert your local media – TV, radio and newspaper. Explain the mission behind Pennies for Peace.
- Invite local businesses to become corporate sponsors. You may find businesses will give you counter space for a coin container. Other businesses may simply want to give a donation.
- Share Pennies for Peace with others. Encourage other schools, classes or groups to join and to visit penniesforpeace.org.
- Exchange your pennies and send to us. When your Pennies for Peace program is complete, you can take a field trip to a local bank to see your pennies counted by the coin machine, before they are translated into a cashier’s check or money order.Send your contribution to:
Pennies for Peace | P.O. Box 7209 | Bozeman, MT 59771.
Receive our thanks!
- Upon receipt of your donation we will send you a Certificate of Appreciation to acknowledge your students’ efforts to broaden their horizons and to become philanthropists.