Francisco Lounge | Wednesday, December 7th | 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

More information will be coming through broadcast email regarding specific times and schedules.

LIVE MUSIC! FABULOUS FOOD! RAFFLE PRIZES (Including an iPad2)!

Raffle prize winners:

• iPad - Glenn James
• Kindle Fire - Jan Hull
• $150 gift card - Giftcard.com
• iPod Nano - Emily Nivens
• Tickets to Chiefs game - DeeDee Attebery, Marilyn Painter
• 65 piece tool set - Barb Fegley
• $25 gift card to Sam's Club - Jackie Atkins
• Lunch/dinner for 2 - Manny's Mexican Rest. - Janice Dobbs
• $50 gift card - HyVee Floral Dept. - Michele Mertz
• Thomas Jones autographed football - Mary Pascarella
• $20 gift card to McGuires Bar & Grill - Lisa Kern
• $20 gift card to Quicks BBQ - Patricia Martin
• Holiday Gift Basket - Keisha Florez
• $25 gift card to Hendricks Motor Sports - Bernice Jackson
• $25 gift card to Thanks.com - Kim Engelman
• KU Gift Basket - Judy Eyerly
• KU sweatshirt/mug - Cathy Price
• 2 Tickets to Twisted Xmas at Midland Theater - Krista Martin
• $50 gift card to giftcard.com - Kathy Schleeter, Danielle Dempsey-Swopes
• $25 Visa gift card - Valorie Coffland
• Tickets to Zoo - Stacy Braiuca, Kathy Ferguson
• Free car washes at Neptune Car Wash - Beth Gregg

'Tis the Season to be Thankful! With appreciation and gratitude, Executive Vice Chancellor Barbara Atkinson invites you to join her, and members of the leadership team, to celebrate the holidays over lunch.

During the event, staff and faculty are encouraged to help those less fortunate by bringing item(s) for donation to area charitable organizations. Those who donate to participating organizations will be receiving a complimentary gift and participating in raffle prizes.

Participating Organizations

Harvesters: The Community Food Network
Harvesters is the area's only food bank and has been a clearinghouse for the collection and distribution of food and related household products since 1979. Harvesters distributes food to more than 600 nonprofit agencies throughout the metro that provide assistance to as many as 66,000 different people each week.

Food/Household Products:

• Canned vegetables
• Canned fruit
• Boxed meals (Hamburger Helper, Pasta Roni, Mac & Cheese)
• Canned meat/tuna
• Peanut butter
• Canned soup
• Cereal (hot or cold)
• Soap
• Deodorant
• Shampoo
• Toilet paper

Ray of Hope: Humane Society of Greater Kansas City
Ray of Hope is a Humane Society program that has decreased the euthanasia rate at the KCK Animal Control from 70% in 2007 to 1% in 2010. Each day our shelter staff go into the city shelter and rescues the animals when their "time is up." We provide medical care for the homeless pets and then place them in foster or adoptive homes or with other no-kill rescue partners. The program is highly collaborative and has made Wyandotte County the first and only no-kill community in the Kansas City area. Ray of Hope is funded 100% by donations from the local community and costs the Humane Society more than $12,000 a month. The program saves 3,000+ homeless pets a year.

• Dog treats
• Litter boxes (all sizes)
• Dog collars and leashes
• Small donut-style cat beds
• Higher-grade pet shampoo
• Liquid laundry soap
• Sponges (one side scrub type)
• Paper towels
• Toilet paper

Reach Out and Read Kansas City
Reach Out and Read Kansas City is a medically based early childhood literacy and kindergarten readiness program in 46 health care clinics throughout metropolitan Kansas City, including KU Pediatric, Family Medicine, Center for Child Health and Development and Silver City clinics. Program services consist of 3 components; 1) training doctors and nurses to give advice on literacy and child development to parents; 2) giving free, developmentally appropriate, new books to children during well child check-ups from birth to 5 years of age and; 3) creating literacy rich waiting rooms - some with trained volunteers reading to children to model interactive reading to families. Reach Out and Read Kansas City is the only medically based early literacy program in Kansas City focused on serving safety net clinics and children growing up in poverty. Currently 74% of the children visiting Reach Out and Read Kansas City partner clinics come from low income families.

• Cash donations: Reach Out and Read Kansas City can purchase books at wholesale, so your dollar goes farther!
• New books appropriate for children birth to 5: suggested series or authors - Clifford series (English and Spanish versions), "Touch and Feel" books, "Spot" series, "I Spy" series, Sandra Boynton, Margaret Wise Brown, Eileen Christelow, Margaret Miller, Laura Numeroff, Martin/Carle, Ezra Jack Keats, Tana Hoban, Rosemary Wells
• Gently used Books appropriate for children under 10: these books will be put in waiting rooms for any children to enjoy or take home regardless of the reason for their visit
• Spanish books, new or used, are in particular demand

Silver City Health Center
Provides a primary care safety net home for uninsured and underinsured residents of Kansas City, Kansas, and is operated by a partnership of the University of Kansas schools of Allied Health, Medicine, and Nursing.

• Infant formula over-the-counter medications: ibuprofen, acetaminophen, Orajel, gas drops
• Children's formula over-the-counter medications: ibuprofen, acetaminophen, cetirizine (Zyrtec), mucinex
• Adult over-the-counter medications: ibuprofen, acetaminophen, cetirizine (Zyrtec)
• Gift cards/cash donations will be used for a supply closet of personal items for the poor.
• Nebulizers to give away to uninsured adults
• Cool mist humidifiers to give to patients
• At home blood pressure monitors
• Fun stickers to "reward" pediatric patients

Silver City is happy to announce that they received $350 in cash and a nice assortment of infant, children and adult over the counter medications and medical supplies.