Yale students and employees participated in a number of projects in and around
the Greater New Haven area during the annual United Way Days of Caring, which
brings together volunteers from around the region to work on service projects,
mentoring activities, and collections and drives to benefit local non-profit
organizations, schools, towns and parks.
T H I S
Days of Caring took place Sept. 9-15. The largest effort on campus during the
event is the New Haven Reads book drive, which is continuing until Sept. 28.
This year, Diane Turner, associate University librarian for human resources,
staff training and security, worked as a consultant to the United Way to help
expand the book drive to all of the college and university campuses in Greater
New Haven: Albertus Magnus College, Gateway Community College, Quinnipiac University,
Southern Connecticut State University, the University of New Haven and Yale.
For the past three years, Turner has led the University’s book drive during
Days of Caring. Last year, Yale affiliates collected over 1,300 books to donate
to New Haven Reads.
The goal for the region-wide book drive this year is 3,000 books. The drive benefits
Read to Grow and New Haven Reads, two local organizations that are dedicated
to promoting literacy within the New Haven community. To further support literacy,
Yale employees also helped organize the New Haven Reads book bank during Days
of Caring in preparation for the many donations the organization receives during
the school year.
During Days of Caring, Yale students, staff and faculty also helped serve dinner
at a variety of Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen venues in New Haven; volunteered
at There’s No Place Like Home, where needed renovations were done to the
group home for physically challenged children; helped organize a fundraiser for
the restoration of Edgerton Park (working through the Edgerton Park Conservancy);
and participated in a beach cleanup at Long Wharf Beach and Nature Reserve, an
effort in partnership with the Yale Office of Sustainability, Save the Sound,
the New Haven Land Trust, and several other Yale and community organizations.
The spirit of giving that leads to the success of Days of Caring continues during
the annual United Way Campaign at Yale, which runs from September through December.
The money raised through the campaign is invested in programs that support the
needs of the most vulnerable citizens in the Greater New Haven area and those
that help build strong communities. More information on this year’s campaign
will appear in a future issue of this newspaper. 
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