Quick Summary
- Food drive and Stuff the Bus to help stock the ASUCD Pantry
- Dinner, silent auction support The Pantry and Aggie Compass
- Toy drives for Yolo County and 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Children鈥檚 Hospital
- Coats, sweaters for pets of people experiencing homelessness
As the holidays approach, various organizations are asking for the campus community鈥檚 help in providing food and other essentials for students, toys for children, and coats and sweaters for dogs and cats.
鈥 Mail Services, part of Supply Chain Management, started this drive 17 years ago, making it very, very easy to contribute 鈥 just leave nonperishable food items and other essentials with your outgoing mail, and Mail Services personnel will do the rest. They began this year鈥檚 collection Nov. 1 and will make their last pickups this Friday (Nov. 18), delivering everything to , a unit of the Associated Students of 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图, which aims to ensure students in need don鈥檛 miss a meal or go without other basic necessities while trying to stay in school. See box below for what The Pantry needs.
![Logo: "Night to End Campus Hunger" (circle, with knife and fork in the middle)](/sites/default/files/media/images/night-to-end-hunger-circle-322.jpg)
鈥 An evening of food, music and a silent auction to benefit The Pantry and the , Thursday, Dec. 1, at the , where full-time staff will prepare the meal with food donated by CoHo vendors and the Student Farm. Although the dinner will be a buffet, the CoHo will offer a "fine-dining feel" with white linens, china, glassware, table centerpieces and more. The affair will begin at 5 p.m. with appetizers, wine and beer, and the silent auction featuring such items as wine tasting tours, hotel stays and campus goodies. A program will start at 6 p.m. with a keynote address by Janet Reilly, a member of the UC Board of Regents. The buffet will be from 6:20 to 7 p.m. Space is limited; reserved seating available with purchase of multiple tickets. Questions about Night to End Campus Hunger? Send them by email.
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STUFF THE BUS 鈥 Sixth annual Unitrans Stuff the Bus event, co-sponsored by the and benefiting The Pantry. Look for one of the campus-city transit system鈥檚 vintage London double-decker buses in the parking lot of the Davis Food Co-op, 620 G St., from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, waiting to be filled with your donations of food and other essentials. Plan some extra time so you and the kids can climb to the top floor of the bus. Also, the first 50 donors will receive Unitrans passes good for 10 free rides.
See box below for what The Pantry needs. For donors鈥 convenience, the Davis Food Co-op will offer prepacked bags of groceries and other items 鈥 bags you can buy at the checkout stands, and staff will deliver the bags to the bus.
WHAT THE PANTRY NEEDS
Abigail Nonnarath, director of The Pantry, provided this updated list today (Nov. 15), starting with high priority items.
- Toiletries and hygiene products (high priority)
- Easy grab-and-go snacks (high priority)
- Canned, ready-to-eat meals
- Cooking utensils
- Healthy snacks
- Gluten-free foods
- Canned soups
- Peanut butter
- Jams
- Fruit juice
- Baby formula
- 鈥淧retty much anything that鈥檚 reasonably healthy, we鈥檒l take it!鈥
Things we鈥檇 like to avoid, Nonnarath said: sugary foods and 鈥渏unk food.鈥
![Graphic: Toys for Tots train logo](/sites/default/files/images/article/toys-for-tots.jpg)
鈥 Mail Services will do the collecting for this drive, too, Nov. 28 to Dec. 9, on behalf of the Marine Corps Reserve, which will distribute the toys to Yolo County children up to age 16. Toys should be new and unwrapped. Leave them with your outgoing mail or place them in any of the blue collection bins around campus.
鈥 Contributions support the hospital鈥檚 Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Fund, which the staff can draw upon to purchase gifts that match the wishes of children spending the holiday season in the hospital, or who are being treated at the cancer clinic or MIND Institute. 鈥淚n essence, your support helps bring a smile to a child's face across the medical campus,鈥 the organizers said. Any funds or purchased toys, crafts, books and electronics not used during the holiday season are used throughout the year for hospital festivities (including Easter and other holidays), and also are used to stock playrooms, to engage patients in bedside play, and to help celebrate patients鈥 milestones. Donors, if they wish, can purchase gifts off the hospital鈥檚 Amazon Wish List.
How to donate:
- through Dec. 24
- By check payable to the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Foundation (with 鈥淭oy Drive鈥 on the memo line) and mailed to 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Children鈥檚 Hospital, Attention: Health Sciences Development, 4900 Broadway, Suite 1150, Sacramento 95820-1540
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鈥 Volunteers who share an affiliation past or present with the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital are making their annual solicitation of funds to help pay for coats and sweaters and other gifts (toys and treats, for example) for the dog and cat companions of people experiencing homelessness.
The hospital volunteers started the Holiday Pet Baskets project in 1995 to aid the pets of people experiencing homelessness 鈥 pets that receive free care at the , formerly called the Mercer Clinic for the Pets of the Homeless, located on the grounds of the Loaves & Fishes resource center in Sacramento. The 28th annual gift distribution is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 10.
The Holiday Pet Basket project sprang into being just a few years after the clinic, which is also an all-volunteer project, staffed by 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 veterinary students, 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 undergraduates and local veterinarians.
How to donate to Mercer Clinic Holiday Pet Baskets (including coats and sweaters):
- By check payable to UC Regents-Mercer Clinic Holiday Pet Baskets and mailed to the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 School of Veterinary Medicine, Office of the Dean, Attention: Mercer Clinic Holiday Pet Baskets, P.O. Box 1167, Davis 95617-1167
- Contributions are tax-deductible
For more information, contact project coordinator Eileen Samitz by phone, 530-756-5165, or email: emsamitz@ucdavis.edu.
The Mercer Veterinary Clinic and its satellite, Davis Pet Advocacy and Wellness, or DPAW, established in 2020 in partnership with the Davis Respite Center, also seek support:
- through this dedicated PayPal link (or use this )
- By check payable to the Mercer Veterinary Clinic and mailed to Mercer Veterinary Clinic, P.O. Box 297, Davis 95617
- Contributions are tax-deductible
Media Resources
Dateline Staff: Dave Jones, editor, 530-752-6556, dateline@ucdavis.edu; Cody Kitaura, News and Media Relations specialist, 530-752-1932, kitaura@ucdavis.edu.