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Please let the Holiday Spirit Committee know how many people your project assisted. The final figures will be shared at the annual Christmas Luncheon in December. We also welcome your personal stories on how your project made a difference. E-mail Rick Davis.

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The Good News: 2011 Projects

The Holiday Spirit Committee collected $1,140.96 and more than 325 food items for the Siena/Francis House at the President's Staff Service Award Luncheon on Tuesday, Dec. 20. Thank you to the Creighton University community for your support of the Holiday Spirit campaign.


Academic Excellence & Assessment -- Siena/Francis House

Annie Hergenrader -- Siena/Francis House

Center for Health Policy and Ethics -- Interfaith Health Service's Families in Action Program

Chemistry Department -- Together, Inc. of Metropolitan Omaha

Classical & Near Eastern Studies and Modern Languages & Literatures -- Helping an employee in need

College of Arts and Sciences -- Siena/Francis House

College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office -- Collecting items related to hygiene and baby care for the Siena/Francis House

Creighton Campus Quilters -- Shelter for Abused Women and Children ($445 collected during the annual quilt raffle)

Creighton Career Center -- Family to Family Holiday Giving

Deborah Caddell -- Shelter for Abused Women and Children

Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Student Employees and Administrative Office -- Jesuit Academy

Departments of Pathology and Radiology -- Collected food for the students and their families of Conestoga Elementary School, which is located in a low-income area. Delivered the food on Nov. 14, so they would have it for their Thanksgiving holiday meal. Also collecting money, toys, etc., for the children of Adam Smith, a radiology resident killed by a drunken driver last year

Department of Preventive Medicine -- The Child Saving Institute

Division of Information Technology -- "Adopted" five children from Kellom
Elementary School

Division of Student Life Central Office and Office of Multicultural Affairs -- Providing financial support for the purchase of gifts to be distributed by the Butler-Gast YMCA at its Christmas party for the children of the northeast Omaha community. Also supporting the Siena/Francis House

EMS Education -- Angel Tree through the Salvation Army

English Department -- Children's Square USA

Facilities Management -- Children's Square USA - Emergency Shelter

Family Medicine-Old Market -- Siena/Francis House

Financial Aid -- Omaha Food Bank

Graduate School, University College, Summer Sessions -- Siena/Francis House, food pantry

Health Sciences Library -- Family to Family with CCSJ

Human Resources Department -- Together, Inc. of Metropolitan Omaha

Institute for Latin American Concern (ILAC) -- Food Pantry at Juan Diego
Center

Intellectual Resource Management (IRM) -- Diaper Drive for the Lydia House

Journalism, Media & Computing -- Siena/Francis House

Laurie Massa and family -- Eastern Nebraska Office on Aging

Lieben Center for Women -- Juan Diego Center

Linn Building -- Restored Hope

Medical School Office of Admissions -- Magis Clinic

Murphy Building -- Adopted two families from Kellom School

Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, Service and Education (OISSE),
School of Pharmacy and Health Professions -- The Heart Ministry Center

Office of Medical Education -- Hospice House: The Josie Harper Residence

Office of Student Success/College of Business Dean's Office -- The Madonna School (baking and soup-making with young adults)

President's Office, Senior VP for Operations, Internal Audit -- Together,
Inc. of Metropolitan Omaha

Public Safety -- Sponsoring a family

Registrar's Office -- Collected $200 for the Angels Among Us program, an organization that assists families with children with cancer.

Reinert Alumni Memorial Library -- The Stephen Center

Research and Compliance -- Siena/Francis House

Residence Life -- Burmese Refugee Family

School of Medicine, Dean's Office -- Magis Clinic run by SOM students

School of Nursing -- Heart Ministry Porto Urgent Care Clinic

School of Pharmacy and Health Professions -- Family to Family through the CCSJ Office

Student Accounts/Business Office -- Food Bank for the Heartland

Student Activities and Creighton Students Union -- Butler-Gast YMCA

Student Health -- Adopting a family

Surgery -- Siena/Francis House

Undergraduate Admissions -- Salvation Army's Adopt-a-Family

University Relations/Marketing & Public Relations -- Toys for Tots

VP for Academic Affairs Office -- The Heart Ministry Center's 2011 Coat Give Away

VP for Health Sciences Office -- Magis Clinic

VP for University Ministry Office -- The Heart Ministry Center's 2011 Coat
Give Away


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