Holiday Food Drive Content

HOLIDAY HELPING: 3 Ways to Support Food Drive

Cody Kitaura — November 05, 2024 - 1:52pm

The Mail Services Holiday Food Drive is back for a 19th year, and there are numerous ways to contribute before the Nov. 22 deadline.

The first is the simplest: Leave nonperishable food items with your outgoing campus mail and Mail Services will take care of the rest, ensuring the gift gets to the AS��ϲ��Ͽ�D Pantry. ��ϲ��Ͽ� Davis Health employees can also take part, with donations going to the Pantry at ��ϲ��Ͽ� Davis Health.

HOLIDAY HELPING: 3,889 Pounds for 2 Pantries

Dave Jones — November 29, 2022 - 1:00pm

Updated 1 p.m. Nov. 29: The campus community is invited to sponsor gifts for the children of ��ϲ��Ͽ� Davis students through a holiday drive being conducted by the Women’s Resources and Research Center. Interested participants are asked to sign up by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 30), by selecting the number of children and age ranges they’d like to sponsor.

’Tis the Season to Help Fill The Pantry’s Shelves

Dave Jones — November 01, 2022 - 11:28am

Gunrock’s Gallop, Holiday Food Drive, AggieSurplus discounts, Night to End Campus Hunger — ��ϲ��Ͽ� Davis is going all out to load up the AS��ϲ��Ͽ�D Pantry, providing food and other essentials to students in need.

HOLIDAY HELPING: Food Drive and Warm Pets

Dave Jones — November 19, 2019 - 1:00am

��ϲ��Ͽ� Davis staff and retirees are running two holiday collections again, taking each drive into milestone territory: 15 years of gathering donations for local food banks, and 25 years of gathering food, treats and coats for pets belonging to homeless people.

HOLIDAY HELPING: Toy Drive, Pet Baskets and T-Day Food Run

Dave Jones — November 27, 2016 - 1:57pm

Food Drive Total

Mail Services provided this photo of a portion of this year’s 2,213-pound collection i

HOLIDAY HELPING: A Food Drive and a Food Run

Dave Jones — November 01, 2016 - 3:57pm

Mail Services’ annual Holiday Food Drive started today (Nov. 1), and another campus group is rounding up a team for the annual Running of the Turkeys fundraiser for the Yolo Food Bank.

First, the campus food drive that makes donating as easy as leaving canned goods and other foodstuffs in your unit’s outgoing mail. Mail Services has been collecting food like this every holiday season since 2005 on both the Davis and Sacramento campuses, bringing in a total of nearly 10 tons of food in 10 years.