Combined Workplace Giving Campaign Aims
to Strengthen College-Community Partnership
As a conference sponsored by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center explores community-campus partnerships through service learning, President Nancy J. Vickers is also encouraging members of the College's faculty and staff to promote Bryn Mawr's partnernships with local community organizations in another way: by making donations through the College's ninth annual Combined Giving Campaign.
Last year, the Combined Giving Campaign raised $17,512 to support a wide variety of organizations dedicated to improving lives throughout the greater Philadelphia area. This year, the campaign committee has set a goal of $20,000.
The campaign, which asks members of the faculty and staff to invest in Philadelphia-area community organizations, begins this week, and will continue through Wednesday, Nov. 21.
The Giving Turkey pictured to the right represents the campaign's progress — as the campaign total mounts, the feathers will be filled in with color. The closer the campaign gets to its goal, the more colorful the turkey will become. Campaign organizers hope to display a fully feathered turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
The campaign offers donors the chance to give through a convenient payroll deduction that spreads the donation out over the 2007 calendar year. Donors may give to one of five umbrella fundraising organizations, or they may earmark their donations for specific agencies within some of the organizations. This year's partners:
• AIDS Fund
• Bread & Roses Community Fund
• The Environmental Fund for Pennsylvania
• United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania , and
• Womens Way.
More information about the partner organizations, including the agencies funded by each one, is available in a fact sheet that was distributed through campus mail (or download a PDF version here). Packets of information will be available in Benham Gateway, the Campus Center, Canaday Library, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Human Resources, Ward and the cafeterias of Erdman, Haffner and Rhoads.
All donors, regardless of the size of their gift, are eligible to be entered into a drawing for four $25 gift certificates from Macy's. The College will also be giving away an additional four $25 gift certificates just for first-time givers.
For information, please contact Joe Bucci in Human Resources. If you would like to find out more about volunteering opportunities, please contact Ellie Esmond in the Civic Engagement Office at x7320.
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