A group of Penn State Behrend students in Washington, D.C., as part of the course Political Science 177, met a group of Penn State Behrend political science alumni, most of whom had taken the same course when they were students. The event was held at Whitlow's in Arlington in March 2019.
Students make sandwiches to donate during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 2018. Community Shelter Services and The Upper Room of Erie both received 50 brown bag lunches with these sandwiches, a granola bar, banana, bottle of water, and handwritten note.
The winning organization for the 2018 Can Castle Challenge was sorority Alpha Sigma Alpha, who won by popular vote on the Civic and Community Engagement Instagram. Their donations filled 35 bags of food for the campus-wide Thanksgiving Food Drive for Second Harvest Food Bank, which directly benefits Erie families in need.
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.
