Change through Change

Association for India's Development (AID) has several initiatives for fundraising to support grassroots developmental projects in India. Now, the Duke chapter of AID makes it easier for you to contribute to this cause and make a difference: Change through Change!! AID periodically conducts the "Change for Change" penny collection drive, when we request people to donate their unused loose change to AID. We give you a nice box for collecting your coins, which we then collect periodically.

FAQ's

Q. Does penny collection drive mean you only collect pennies ??
A. Not at all. We will take all your pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and any higher denomination, with pleasure.

Q. How do you convert the change to cash ??
A. We use the Coinstar coin counting machines at Kroger or Harris Teeter. They take a commission of approximately 10%.

Q. Why don't you count it yourself and drop it in a bank or use the fancy coin sorters you get at Walmart ??
A. Banks need the coins sorted, counted and rolled in wrappers. The sheer volume of coins we collect each time (more than 3000 pennies) prevents us from using the coin sorters you get at Walmart (which is low throughput) or do it manually. If you have better ideas please let me know.

Q. What do you do with the cash ??
A. It goes into the AID-Duke account, which we use to fund our projects. For more information visit www.duke.edu/web/aid/

Please contact AID Duke at aidindia@duke.edu to get a penny collection box for your work place and/or at home.

Get your Penny Collection Box today and help make a difference!

Partnership with Food Lion

Get your groceries at Food Lion! All you need to do is get yourself a MVP card at Food Lion and send us your MVP card number. 3% of the proceeds of every purchase you make, while presenting the card to Food Lion, goes to AID. This is a great way to help AID help India because it costs nothing to the person buying groceries. You can support a developmental project just by buying your regular groceries - isn't that neat?!