{"id":11812,"date":"2018-11-29T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/day-2-12-days-of-giving\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T18:20:28","slug":"day-2-12-days-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/day-2-12-days-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: 12 Days of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>12 Days of Giving, the campus-wide initiative to benefit Joseph&#8217;s House and Shelter in Troy, continues through Thursday, Dec. 13!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder of our 12-day effort to assist the guest at Joseph\u2019s House and Shelter in downtown Troy this holiday season!<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to collect much-needed personal care items and NEW clothing \u2013 especially cold-weather gear \u2013 for the shelter guests, both men and women. Our goal is to collect 1,200 items. That&#8217;s 100 items a day for 12 days! I am encouraging all employees to work as a team to make this goal a reality, although individual donations also are welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Joseph\u2019s House is a not for profit organization that services Troy, as well as the Capital Region. They have three facilities located throughout Troy. Their vision is to develop a community where everyone has safe and affordable housing, and their mission is to provide services to end homelessness. The requests for help from the homeless have been increasing steadily by 10% every year! Visit http:\/\/www.josephshousetroy.org\/ for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you and\/or your department\/office mates can help meet our goal:<\/p>\n<p><em>Collect donations of these items<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Clothing \u2013 priority, winter-season items are shown in bold<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>warm, heavy socks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>hats\/mittens\/scarves\/heavy (ski) gloves<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>sweat pants and sweat shirts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>long johns<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>long-sleeved shirts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>men\u2019s boxers\/women\u2019s underwear<\/li>\n<li>sports bras of all sizes<\/li>\n<li>slippers for both men and women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General and Personal Care \u2013 full-size (not samples) are requested<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shampoo and conditioner, or combo like Pert<\/li>\n<li>razors and shaving cream<\/li>\n<li>deodorant for men and women<\/li>\n<li>body wash<\/li>\n<li>lip balm<\/li>\n<li>nail clippers<\/li>\n<li>wash cloths<\/li>\n<li>hand warmers<\/li>\n<li>liquid laundry detergent<\/li>\n<li>fabric softener sheets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monetary gifts will also be accepted. Please contact me (see below) for further information.<\/p>\n<p><em>Deliver your donations to any of the following drop-off locations<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>ADM 140 \u2013 Human Resources (Dina Farr)<br \/>\nCTR 270 \u2013 Wellness Center (Claudine Potvin-Giordano)<br \/>\nEOC reception desk (Lucie Marion)<br \/>\nFTZ 157 \u2013 Dental Hygiene (Judy Dilorenzo)<br \/>\nGUN 163 \u2013 The Foundation (Lisa Mattes)<br \/>\nHUD 130 \u2013 Construction Technology (Chris LaPlante)<br \/>\nLNG 105 \u2013 Technology Advisement Center (Amy McEwing)<br \/>\nSCI 128 \u2013 School of Health Sciences (Laura Conroy)<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions, please feel free to contact:me at <a href=\"mailto:c.bosco@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">c.bosco@hvcc.edu<\/a>\u00a0or (518) 629-7409 or Laurie Conroy at <a href=\"mailto:l.conroy@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">l.conroy@hvcc.edu<\/a> or (518) 629-7887.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for helping to make the holiday season a bit brighter for those in need!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Carol Bosco<br \/>\nDean of Health Sciences<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:20:28 +0000 by\u00a0c.bosco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 12 Days of Giving, the campus-wide initiative to benefit Joseph&#8217;s House and Shelter in Troy, continues through Thursday, Dec.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}