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March 01, 2016, Volume 62, No. 25 |
Dear Penn Community,
Thank you so very much for all of your contributions to benefit our surrounding community. There are no words to adequately describe your generosity during the holiday season. Many benefited from your willingness to give. Here are examples of the various efforts: Thank you to President Gutmann for hosting her Annual Holiday Party where over 300 toys and gifts were donated. These toys along with many others were donated to Councilwoman Blackwell’s Annual Holiday Party for the Homeless.
Thank you to the following departments; they brought joy to families during the holidays by “adopting” them:
• Annenberg Public Policy Center coordinated by Ellen Iwamoto
• Business Services coordinated by Tracy Hawkins
• Career Services coordinated by Jamie Grant
• College Houses & Academic Services coordinated by Nancy McCue
• Development & Alumni Relations coordinated by Maria Haring
• General Counsel coordinated by Helen Logan
• Joanna Hart and family coordinated by Joanna Hart
• LIFE Program coordinated by Cherry Sturdivant
• Netter Center for Community Partnerships coordinated by Linda Satchell
• Office of the Comptroller coordinated by Celestine Silverman
• Office of Gift Planning coordinated by Lorleen Finor-Maxwell
• Office of Government & Community Affairs coordinated by Linda Satchell
• Penn Center for Innovation coordinated by Kara Swift
• Penn Vector Care coordinated by Amy Onorato
• Research Services coordinated by Lauren Oshana
• Steven W. Atwood Veterinary Library coordinated by Karen Lane
• Theta Tau coordinated by Lauren Silberberg
• Thi Vuong Poerner and family coordinated by Thi Vuong Poerner
• Training & Development HR coordinated by Holly Marrone
• Transitional Medicine & Human Genetics coordinated by Barbara Bernhardt
• University Communications coordinated by Lauren Summers
• Undergraduate Financial Aid coordinated by Karen Hamilton
• University of Pennsylvania Libraries coordinated by Jeanne Shuttleworth
• Weekly Paid Staff Assembly coordinated by Linda Satchell and Rosa Vargas
• Wharton School’s Business & Public Policy Department coordinated by Beth Moskat
• Wharton Marketing and Communications coordinated by Marcia Longworth
• Wharton School Dean’s Office coordinated by Jennifer O’Keefe
*Several departments adopted multiple families.
Special thanks to the Institute for Regenerative Medicine for the donation of gift cards that provided groceries for deserving families during the holidays.
Special thanks to the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology coordinated by Stephanie Yuhasz for their generous donation of gift cards that increased our capacity to adopt additional families.
Thanks to Helen Logan and the Office of General Counsel for providing additional gifts to ensure that all the families referred to us were adopted.
Special thanks to Human Resources coordinated by Syreeta Gary, and others from across the University for their large donation to the Annual Coat Drive. We provided coats to: Outley House Homeless Shelter, United Way Coat Drive and various local families.
Special thanks to Business Services for their Annual Warm Me Up Drive that benefited many local families and the People’s Emergency Center.
Thank you to the entire University community for donating over 700 gifts and toys.
Thank you to the Dropsite Volunteers who collected all the toys/gifts and made it possible for us to respond to requests for donations from our neighbors:
Councilwoman Blackwell’s Annual Holiday Party for the Homeless, Earth’s Keepers, Parents Against Drugs, Youth Council, Achievability and People’s Emergency Center.
The following pantries benefited from the University’s Annual Food Drive:
People’s Emergency Center, Mount Vernon Manor CDC, Achievability and Outley House Homeless Shelter.
Thank you to all the special persons both named and unnamed for their kindness that made a remarkable difference in the lives of our neighbors.
Upcoming March Event:
March 1-18
Change Drive
To benefit graduating high school students accepted at an accredited college or university. This is a non-tuition donation given to students to enable them to buy books and the many other items needed to make a home away from home. The program has been in existence for over 20 years and has made a difference in many students’ lives. The following sites are available for your convenience to make your donation. Contact Isabel Mapp at sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu for additional information.
Office |
Location |
Contact |
Phone |
President’s Office |
100 College Hall |
Brenda Gonzalez |
898-0447 |
Provost’s Office |
353B 3401 Walnut |
Susan Curran |
898-6841 |
Museum Reception Desk |
Near Kress Gallery |
Bonnie Crosfield |
898-4001 |
Human Resources |
538A 3401 Walnut Street |
Syreeta Gary |
898-6018 |
Netter Center |
111 S. 38th St., 2nd Floor |
Isabel Mapp |
898-2020 |
Wharton |
1000 SH-DH |
Jennifer O’Keefe |
898-1092 |
ISC |
203A Sansom West |
Kathy Ritchie |
573-3561 |
Research Services |
P-221 Franklin Building |
Lauren Oshana |
573-6710 |
Comptroller’s Office |
312 Franklin Building |
Celestine Silverman |
898-7593 |
FRES |
3101 Walnut Street |
Carole Mercaldo |
573-8795 |
Abramson Family Cancer Institute |
508 Biology Research Building II-III |
Joanne Gorman |
746-5550 |
Physics & Astronomy |
DRL 2E5 |
Michelle Last |
898-5954 |
Nursing |
3rd & 4th Flr. Mailroom Fagin Hall |
Pat Adams |
573-1630 |
African American Resource Center |
3643 Locust Walk |
Colleen Winn |
898-0104 |
Reorganizing? Do you have furniture no longer needed by your department? Local nonprofits are in need of your items!
Had a conference? Do you have left-over bags, tee-shirts or tchotchkes? Need to empty out your storage space? Please donate them to Penn VIPS. We will put them to great use by donating them to community members and many of the students we work with, and we will also use them to say thank you to our many volunteers. Contact Isabel Mapp at sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu to donate your items.
—Isabel Mapp, Associate Director, Netter Center for Community Partnerships
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