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<Title>Retriever Essentials New Donation Boxes</Title>
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    <div>Look for our upgraded donation boxes at the Admin Building (across from the elevator), the AOK Atrium, and the Commons (by the Information Desk) and feel free to drop nonperishable food and personal care items in them.</div>
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<Summary>Thanks to our volunteers, Kimani from Cristo Rey High School, Alex, Josephine, and Zoe from PRAC 096, we now have new donation boxes installed!    Look for our upgraded donation boxes at the Admin...</Summary>
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<Title>Donation Request for Coat Closet</Title>
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    <div>The weather will soon be turning cold, and we are once again requesting donations of gently used warm coats, hats, gloves and scarves for our Retrievers who are in need of these items.  Last year we distributed over 200 free coats, hats, gloves and scarves.<br>
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    <div>This year Retriever Essentials is working together with Hillel and the Muslim Student Association, who will be hosting our Coat Closet at the Interfaith Center.</div>
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    <div>If you have items to donate, please contact Tasneem Qalawee at <a href="mailto:gx13254@umbc.edu">gx13254@umbc.edu</a> to arrange to have your items picked up.</div>
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    <div>Thank you for your continued support!!<br><a rel="nofollow external" class="bo"></a>
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    <div>Please share with others in your office and drop off donations in one of our 3 boxes on campus: Commons by reception desk next to windows, Admin Building across from elevator or Library on first floor as you walk in on the right.</div>
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    <div>Thank you for your continued support!!<br>
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<Title>Our Kickoff Event is Today at Noon in the Game Room</Title>
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    <div>This is a perfect opportunity to share your involvement with Retriever Essentials, learn the roles you can play, see how you can start your journey with us, and find out the ways we can support each other as we all strive to <strong>end hunger</strong> on the UMBC campus. We want to take the time to thank you for your participation in and support for Retriever Essentials and show you how your role can continue as we work to <strong>break the stigma</strong> around food insecurity on campus. </div>
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    <div>Come for <strong>free food and give-aways</strong>, stay for the games, music, and Retriever Essentials information! </div>
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<Title>Shabbat dinner at the Interfaith Center</Title>
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<Summary>Hillel is hosting Shabbat dinner at the Interfaith Center right now! Please visit the Interfaith Center to share a meal with your UMBC fellows. </Summary>
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<Title>We are in need of canned fruit packed in its own juice AND</Title>
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    <div>Please pass the word to others who may be able to donate.</div>
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    <div>Donation cans be placed in any of the Retriever Essentials collection boxes on campus, Admin Building, first floor in front of elevators, Library to the right as you walk in and Commons by the windows next to the reception desk.</div>
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    <div>If your department collects a large amount of non-perishable donations, please contact us at <a href="mailto:retrieveressentials@umbc.edu">retrieveressentials@umbc.edu</a>, and we will arrange for a volunteer to pick up from you.</div>
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    <div>Thank you for your continued support!  During the last school year Retriever Essentials provided 259 bags of nutritionally balanced, non-perishable foods.</div>
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<Title>Retriever Essentials Student Leadership Board - Apply now!</Title>
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<Title>Free Food Leftover from a Catering Event - Public Policy Bld</Title>
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<Title>We are in need of peanut butter and rice</Title>
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    <div>3.  Library to the right as you walk in.<br>
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    <div>If you would like to get a flier or electronic version of our flier about Retriever Essentials to give out to your faculty and staff for the start of the new semester, please email Julie Rosenthal at <a href="mailto:julier@umbc.edu">julier@umbc.edu</a>
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