Loyola Phoenix: Gannon Reach Out delivers food to 128 local families
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Loyola Phoenix: Gannon Reach Out delivers food to 128 local families
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Three volunteers participate in the Gannon Scholars' sixth annual Gannon Reach Out food drive, raising over $6,000 to provide Thanksgiving dinners to families in the Rogers Park and Edgewater communities who otherwise would not be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. The Gannon Scholars are women student leaders at Loyola. The Reach Out motto was "Extending hearts and hands."
Over 150 students, faculty, and staff gathered for the program that was organized by 16 Gannon Scholars. The Scholars solicited donations of time and money from 59 local businesses, as well as Loyola organizations, and members of the Loyola community. Gannon Scholar Kendra Preston said she felt the program allowed people to learn about hunger in Loyola's neighborhood as well as to do something to ease that problem. Friday, volunteers organized the food into boxes and created Thanksgiving cards, then on Saturday morning they delivered the boxes to individual families. A speaker from the Howard Area Community Center spoke to volunteers about the causes of poverty and restrictions on welfare eligibility. Gannon Reach Out started in 1995 and served 25 families by raising $700 in its first year. By 2000, they had distributed $30,000 in food.
Photo by John Grimaud
Over 150 students, faculty, and staff gathered for the program that was organized by 16 Gannon Scholars. The Scholars solicited donations of time and money from 59 local businesses, as well as Loyola organizations, and members of the Loyola community. Gannon Scholar Kendra Preston said she felt the program allowed people to learn about hunger in Loyola's neighborhood as well as to do something to ease that problem. Friday, volunteers organized the food into boxes and created Thanksgiving cards, then on Saturday morning they delivered the boxes to individual families. A speaker from the Howard Area Community Center spoke to volunteers about the causes of poverty and restrictions on welfare eligibility. Gannon Reach Out started in 1995 and served 25 families by raising $700 in its first year. By 2000, they had distributed $30,000 in food.
Photo by John Grimaud
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
2000-11-21
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Loyola Phoenix, 2000-11-21, page 1, Gannon Reach Out delivers food to 128 local families
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University Archives and Special Collections
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University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix, 2000-11-21, page 1, Gannon Reach Out delivers food to 128 local families
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Loyola University Chicago
Gannon Scholars
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