Students and staff got together in The Smith Chapel to make 101 lunch bags during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. The bags, filled with handmade peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, granola bars, bananas, water, and handwritten notes, were donated to The Upper Room (a daytime homeless shelter) and Community Shelter Services, both in Erie.
Donations for the 2018 campus-wide Thanksgiving food drive for Second Harvest Food Bank. Our Behrend community raised a record 178 bags of food that fed 178 local families during the holiday. This donation event happens each year with students, faculty, staff, and community members coming together to make donations. Contact Civic Engagement in October if you'd like to participate!
Behrend Benefiting THON's FTK (For The Cure) dance and activities night in 2019 was the perfect venue to reveal their incredible total to-date of $27,671.82 for THON, the largest student-run philanthropy in the world.
Members of SNAP @ Behrend (Student Nurses' Association of Pennsylvania Chapter at Penn State Behrend) delivered 269 books to UPMC Hamot's NICU from their Books for Babies drive. Content from SNAP @ Behrend.
Behrend SNAP (Student Nurses' Association of Pennsylvania Chapter at Penn State Behrend) delivered the clothing donations they collected to UPMC Hamot’s Neonatal ICU in 2019. Students got to see the unit and learn a little bit more about NICU. The clothing will be used for babies admitted to the unit during their stay. Content from SNAP @ Behrend.
