The Penny Project

I wanted to tell you about my latest idea.

The penny, come on face it you hate it. No one likes the penny, and in the consumer quick society we live in we treat it like trash. In fact our streets are littered with pennies and other "small" change no one wants. We have all heard the "find a penny pick it up..." line, but what do you do after you're done? After all we all know that those pennies get lost again in your room or your car. So as a society we hate pennies, even I am guilty of the "centless" hatred of the penny.

However the penny is still currency, and it can really add up after a while [seriously go count your pennies sometime] and it seems a shame to just have all these wasted pennies lying around. So what I wanted to do was try to start a nonprofit to give those pennies to children, we do have some penny organizations already but they don't seem to do what I wanted, and this was my idea. And then I realized how much work it is to start a nonprofit. It's a government thing, you can't just do it. The government automatically doesn't trust you and basically you submit the idea and it might never get put into place and you can end up never getting approval and this bothers me so much. I looked at this thing and was like "well now I know why no one ever wants to help the world anymore."

Personally I really like UNICEF because I'd like to work for them someday, but it really annoys me that they don't make it easier to raise money. Sure they have trick or treat for UNICEF but that's only one time a year...unless I just went around trick or treating a few months late. I don't think people would trust me if I did that though. Then there's the other option where I can raise "pennies for UNICEF" and then just donate it as if it were my own money. But it's not completely legit so I still don't think people would trust me.

Gah I'm at a stand still here with this one, let me know what you think about the whole thing.

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