{"id":55271,"date":"2012-12-10T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=55271"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:09:46","slug":"umw-gives-back-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/10\/umw-gives-back-this-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Gives Back This Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the weather outside doesn\u2019t always feel like winter, the spirit of the holiday season can be felt at the University of Mary Washington, where students, faculty and staff\u00a0 have found a myriad of ways to give back to the community and the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Across the UMW campus, multiple drives and donations efforts have been occurring throughout the month of December, from large groups to individuals hoping to make a difference. Among them, several groups of students, including UMW club sports teams and the <a href=\"http:\/\/eagleeye.umw.edu\/2012\/12\/06\/els-center-hosting-toys-for-tots-drive\/\">ELS Language Center<\/a>, have been collecting donations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toysfortots.org\/\">Toys for Tots<\/a>. Members of the club sports teams collected more than 60 toys, while the ELS drive will continue through mid-December.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55281\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/10\/umw-gives-back-this-holiday-season\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"55281\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353087916&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;5000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wrapping party_coar close up\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;UMW students wrapped presents for &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-1024x680.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55281\" title=\"wrapping party_coar close up\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-300x199.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-1024x680.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-768x510.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-680x453.jpg 680w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-1140x757.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-close-up-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UMW students wrapped presents for COAR&#8217;s Headstart Gift Box Drive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carol Dye, a senior and UMW women\u2019s varsity basketball team member, took it into her own hands to start a Toys for Tots drive as part of an internship. By asking attendees of UMW basketball games to bring a toy donation in exchange for free admission, she collected more than 90 toys.<\/p>\n<p>UMW\u2019s A Cappella group \u201cOne Note Stand\u201d decided to use its annual holiday concert as an outlet to help those less fortunate in the community by requesting concert goers bring non-perishable food items. The group collected 30 cans of food at their performance for the <a href=\"http:\/\/fredfood.org\/\">Fredericksburg Area Food Bank<\/a>, which A Capella president Regina Weiss says is a promising number for the group\u2019s first food drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile 30 seems like a small number I&#8217;m really happy with what we collected, and I think in the future we would definitely do it again and hopefully it will yield even more donations,\u201d said Weiss, who is a junior and also a member of COAR, the Community Outreach and Resources center at UMW.<\/p>\n<p>COAR has been helping young children in community schools with their \u201cHeadstart Gift Box Drive,\u201d for over a decade. Shoeboxes wrapped by COAR volunteers are filled with items donated from the campus and community such as a new toothbrushes, scarves and gloves, books and toys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids love them,\u201d said Christina Eggenberger, director of service in the Center for Honor, Leadership and Service. \u201cThey get so much joy out of every item in the box \u2013 even the toothbrushes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Eggenberger, this year\u2019s drive had hundreds of volunteers with 700 shoeboxes filled with donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe drive always reminds me how generous our community is,\u201d said Eggenberger.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55291\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/10\/umw-gives-back-this-holiday-season\/wrapping-party_coar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"55291\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/27\/fun-is-not-canceled-a-student-to-do-list\/wrapping-party_coar\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4320,3240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX S3100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353100599&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wrapping party_coar\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Even with strict health guidelines in place, there is still plenty to do at UMW, including this &amp;#8220;Halloweens&amp;#8221; event. A special calendar and list contain a collection of fun ideas and activities.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Community Outreach and Resources&amp;#8217; 2020 Box Drive asks students to pick up a box and fill it with small items for the children of low-income families in Fredericksburg.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55291\" title=\"wrapping party_coar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-300x225.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-768x576.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-1140x855.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-600x450.jpg 600w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/12\/wrapping-party_coar-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year&#8217;s Headstart Gift Box Drive yielded more than 700 boxes for local children.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even after students leave Fredericksburg to return home for winter break the giving at UMW will continue on through Dec. 17, with the community-wide \u201cHoliday Help for the Homeless\u201d drive.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Staff Advisory Council (S.A.C.), the drive collects basic necessities for needy families and children in the Fredericksburg area through the winter months. Non-perishable food, personal hygiene items and crockpots, which allow displaced families to cook their own meals, are some of the most requested items. A full list of needed items and donation locations can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/eagleeye.umw.edu\/2012\/11\/29\/annual-helping-the-homeless-drive-kicks-off\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After all donations have been collected they will be given to local social workers assigned to area homeless projects so the donations can go where needed the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of homeless individuals and displaced families has risen so much in recent years that it becomes increasingly clear that we as members of this community must step up and do something to help,\u201d said Priscilla Sullivan, the activities chair for S.A.C.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan cites the importance of giving to those who are suffering around us unknown to many community members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are students in classrooms right now from kindergarten to high school that are not living in a home &#8211; that don\u2019t have the most basic of necessities \u2013 and no one around them even knows,\u201d said Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan hopes the drive becomes an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to see UMW become a center of giving and caring for its surrounding area \u2013 a place that our community can count on to rise to the challenge of providing help and hope,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>News release prepared by:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Julia Davis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the weather outside doesn\u2019t always feel like winter, the spirit of the holiday season can be felt at the University of Mary Washington, where students, faculty and staff\u00a0 have found a myriad of ways to give back to the community and the less fortunate. 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