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- A Community Place
- This social service referral center, located at St. Mark's Lutheran Church at the corner of Vermont Avenue and West 36th Place, is a coordinated effort to educate the campus about the needs of the working poor and homeless while providing a central location for distribution of bus tokens, healthy bag lunches, referrals and a social worker to talk to.
Contact: Diane Kenney, 213-740-2667
Email: kenney@usc.edu
- Christmas Is Community
- This is an annual food and toy drive in which USC students, staff and faculty members participate. Collected items are given to a coalition of local churches, synagogues and "safe" houses in the USC neighborhoods (University Park and Health Sciences) for distribution to needy households.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Richard E. McCormick, 323-442-1772
Email: rmccormick@transportation.usc.
- Food, Clothing and Toy Drive
- A committee composed of ISI division representatives conducts food/health maintenance items and cash/clothing drives as well as Thanksgiving turkeys and holiday food and toy drives to benefit families served by the Southern California Veterans Services Council in Inglewood and the Clare Foundation in Culver City.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Lisa Moses, 310-448-9104
Email: moses@isi.edu
- From the Wholesaler to the Hungry
- From the Wholesaler to the Hungry establishes partnerships between charitable agencies and the food industry, city by city across the United States, whereby surplus fresh fruits and vegetables are donated and speedily distributed to hungry and malnourished people. Today, more than 147 programs distribute fresh produce to needy children and adults, obviating many chronic and preventable illnesses.
Ages Served: All ages
Contact: Susan H. Evans, 323-442-2613
Email: shevans@usc.edu
- HSC Transportation Services Toy/Food Drive
- Each year, commencing the first working day after the Thanksgiving holiday, Transportation Services holds an annual toy drive at the USC Health Sciences Campus. Barrels are displayed at the parking structure and gate entrances and toys/food are collected until the middle of December. Toys are distributed at the Wyvernwood Projects located on Olympic and Soto, local area churches and Murchison Street Elementary School.
Contact: Richard E. McCormick, 323-442-1772
Email: rmccormick@transportation.usc.
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