‘Tis the season to donate

It’s official: The holiday season is in full swing. Groups across campus are showing their festive spirit by collecting donations for those who are less fortunate this time of year. If you want to help, check out one of the following donation collectors:

Sponsor: Staff senate

Date: Through Dec. 7

Locations: Foyer of James Branch Cabell Library, Sanger Hall and Main Hospital cafeteria

Description: The staff senate is looking for winter clothes for youths ages 11 to 15 years old and also preschool children ages 4 and 5 years old. The senate will donate the goods to Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.

Contact: Karen Bryant at kpbryant@vcu.edu or LaVon Jones Jiles at LJones@mcvh-vcu.edu

Sponsors: Association of Black Social Workers and Bachelor of Social Work Student Association

Date: Through Dec. 8

Locations: Raleigh Building, student lounge, Room B-14; Main Hospital, volunteer services office

Description: ASBW and BSWSA are collecting gifts for Battery Park families whose homes were damaged by Tropical Storm Ernesto.

Contact: Crystal Harding at hardingcl@vcu.edu or (804) 222-4914

Sponsor: NAACP at VCU

Date: Through Dec. 8

Locations: Drop-off boxes in Johnson Hall, Ramz Hall, Cabaniss Hall and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs office in the University Student Commons, Room 215.

Description: VCU NAACP is holding a winter clothing drive for the YMCA.

Contact: Jennifer Black at blackje@vcu.edu

Sponsors: School of Mass Communications advisory board

Locations: Various drop-off boxes in the T. Edward Temple Building

Description: The mass communications advisory board is asking for canned foods and other non-perishable items, which it will give to the Central Virginia Food Bank.

Contact: Carol Mawyer at cbmawyer@vcu.edu or (804) 827-3725