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Seeing a greater vision behind the piles of pennies accumulating in her room, Dana Hork founded Change for Change during the fall of 1999 as a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. Dana, who was moving back to Minnesota from Penn for the summer, realized she had accumulated a notable sum of loose change over the school year. It was too heavy to take on the plane home for the summer, but too meaningful to leave behind either.
After crunching the numbers, Dana realized that accumulating change from many college students across many college campuses could really affect meaningful change. Through a mechanism that enabled college students to donate this loose change, Dana envisioned a large-scale charitable giving campaign supported by a nationwide network of college students. After building a model, coordinating successful collection drives for three years at Penn and raising over $25,000 for September 11th relief efforts, the program was ready to expand. With the support of a select group of friends who shared a vision of a nationwide charitable giving campaign for college students, Change for Change was rolled out to additional college campuses.
Dana continues to run Change for Change at the national level along with a dedicated Board of Directors. Change for Change has since expanded its vision beyond just college students, and seeks to engage all students and young professionals in philanthropy.
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