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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.
Send us photos of your Holiday Spirit project and we'll post them on this site.
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