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Thank you for your generosity during the special PB&Joy food drive to help our neighbors in Ferguson and surrounding areas.  We donated 373 pounds of food collected in the four Olin bins!  Here are some other details about the University-wide campaign:

·        Our colleagues at Operation Food Search mentioned numerous times that Washington University was the first of their community partners to step up and offer to help following the incidents in Ferguson.  They are deeply grateful for our contributions and our desire to assist.

·        32 bins were placed across all University campuses

·        3830 pounds of food were donated

Operation Food Search was delighted with the prevalence of canned chicken & tuna, which is sorely needed.  This food has already gone out to the 8 partner agencies in/near Ferguson, and to St. Louis Crisis Nursery / Florissant which is going door to door in Camden Green.

·        $1270 was donated to Operation Food Search. A portion of this was used to cover freight to deliver 360,000 diapers to Ferguson and neighboring communities.

·        Operation Food Search calculates that our drive allowed 1,789 people to eat for a day.

We look forward to once again participating in the annual PB&Joy food drive in April 2015 and the friendly competition between Students and Faculty/Staff to win the title of biggest donor.

Warm regards,
Your PB&Joy Ambassadors

We are happy to share the 2014 results for the PB&Joy campaign….

Student Donations= 837 lbs of food and $165
Graduate Students= 807 lbs of food, $165 cash
Undergraduate Students= 30 lbs of food

Faculty/Staff= 212 lbs of food, $428 cash

Together we donated over 1000 pounds of food items alone.  Congratulations Olin students for your victory once again!  A special thanks to the Olin Partners Association and Olin Cares for rallying the Grad students to donate.  The trophy is yours for another year but we hope you feel great about the good work you did for PB&Joy and Operation Food Search!

Dean Gupta is treating us to a Ted Drewes ice cream social on Tuesday, April 29 from 4:00-5:30pm in the Frick Forum.  Please join us!

Your PB&Joy Ambassadors,
Claire, Rachelle and Laura

As of April 10: Olin students have donated $110 and Olin Faculty/Staff have donated $125 to the 4^rd annual PB&Joy University-Wide Food Drive, which runs April 3-15. One dollar equals one pound of food and our goal this year is 1000 pounds. Olin has traditionally been one of the top contributors to the campus wide campaign.

Olin raised $2740 and collected 974 pounds of food in 2013.  We’re a long way from our goal with only five days left in drive!

To make it convenient for all members of the Olin community, large blue donation bins have been placed in Simon Hall and Knight Hall.

Online donations are an easy way for everyone to contribute by visiting http://fooddrive.wustl.edu

Watch this video to learn how many children are at risk of hunger every day in the U.S.

http://youtu.be/sicTk_Y7YQQ