Holiday Helping Content / Holiday Helping Content for ٺƵ en HOLIDAY HELPING: Ways to Support Students, Kids and Pets /news/holiday-helping-ways-support-students-kids-and-pets <p>ٺƵ-backed projects to help students, children and pets have returned just in time for the holidays.&nbsp;</p><h2>Stuff the Bus</h2><p>Unitrans will park a vintage double-decker bus at the Davis Food Co-op from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 14 and ask the community to “Stuff the Bus” with food and other essential&nbsp;items for The Pantry, a campus space that helps students experiencing&nbsp;food insecurity.</p><p>“The Pantry is looking to sustain student and employee well-being, so they don’t have to worry about their next meal,” said Andie Tarabzooni, director of The Pantry.</p> November 26, 2024 - 1:48pm Cody Kitaura /news/holiday-helping-ways-support-students-kids-and-pets HOLIDAY HELPING: 3 Ways to Support Food Drive /news/holiday-helping-3-ways-support-food-drive <p>The <a href="https://supplychain.ucdavis.edu/events/mail-services-19th-annual-holiday-food-drive">Mail Services Holiday Food Drive</a> is back for a 19th year, and there are numerous ways to contribute before the Nov. 22 deadline.</p><p>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 ASUCD Pantry. ٺƵ Health employees can also take part, with donations going to the Pantry at ٺƵ Health.</p> November 05, 2024 - 1:52pm Cody Kitaura /news/holiday-helping-3-ways-support-food-drive How to Help Others This Holiday Season /news/how-help-others-holiday-season <div> <p><strong>Update Dec. 5:</strong> Between the football game and two basketball games, cross-Causeway rivalry contests between ٺƵ and Sacramento State drew 750 pounds of food donations this year.</p> <p>Separately, <a href="https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/12/4/womens-basketball-aggies-return-home-to-host-jessup-saint-mary-s.aspx">the women’s basketball game on Sunday (Dec. 10)</a> will feature a toy drive organized by the Coalition for African Diaspora Student-Athletes.</p></div> December 05, 2023 - 8:35am Cody Kitaura /news/how-help-others-holiday-season Mercer Clinic Preps for Holiday Gifts to Pets of Homeless People /news/mercer-clinic-preps-holiday-gifts-pets-homeless-people <p><span><span><span><span>The long-running Mercer Veterinary Clinic in Sacramento is helping bring holiday joy to pets of people who are homeless, and you can help.</span></span></span></span></p> November 21, 2023 - 1:45pm Cody Kitaura /news/mercer-clinic-preps-holiday-gifts-pets-homeless-people HOLIDAY HELPING: 3,889 Pounds for 2 Pantries /news/holiday-helping-2275-pounds-pantry-and-counting <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Updated 1 p.m. Nov. 29:</strong> The campus community is invited to sponsor gifts for the children of ٺƵ students through a holiday drive being conducted by the <a href="https://wrrc.ucdavis.edu/">Women’s Resources and Research Center</a>. Interested participants are asked to <a href="http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcR-rR9X8eaJDiBwloTFn1DeEUjGTleSmcUjIqEImzKYjaQw/viewform?usp=sf_link">sign up by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 30)</a>, by selecting the number of children and age ranges they’d like to sponsor.</p> November 29, 2022 - 1:00pm Dave Jones /news/holiday-helping-2275-pounds-pantry-and-counting HOLIDAY HELPING: Food, Toys and More /news/holiday-helping-food-toys-and-more <p class="MsoNormal">As the holidays approach, various organizations are asking for the campus community’s help in providing food and other essentials for students, toys for children, and coats and sweaters for dogs and cats.</p> November 15, 2022 - 12:52pm Dave Jones /news/holiday-helping-food-toys-and-more ’Tis the Season to Help Fill The Pantry’s Shelves /news/tis-season-help-fill-pantrys-shelves Gunrock’s Gallop, Holiday Food Drive, AggieSurplus discounts, Night to End Campus Hunger — ٺƵ is going all out to load up the ASUCD Pantry, providing food and other essentials to students in need. November 01, 2022 - 11:28am Dave Jones /news/tis-season-help-fill-pantrys-shelves IN BRIEF: ٺƵ Repeats With No. 1 GreenMetric Ranking in U.S. /news/in-brief-uc-davis-repeats-no-1-greenmetric-ranking-us <div>&nbsp; <h2 class="heading--underline text-align-center"><span>INDEX</span></h2> <ul class="list--arrow"> <li><strong><span>Campus also retains 5th-place ranking globally</span></strong></li> <li><strong><span>HOLIDAY HELPING: Stuffed Bus delivers to The Pantry</span></strong></li> <li><strong>Global ransomware attack affects Dining Services staff</strong></li> <li><strong><span>Man arrested on charge of possession of stolen property</span></strong></li> </ul> <hr> <h3><span>Our green metrics are tops</span></h3> <p><span>ٺƵ’ green metrics have once again warranted high place</span></p></div> December 14, 2021 - 4:07pm Andy Fell /news/in-brief-uc-davis-repeats-no-1-greenmetric-ranking-us HOLIDAY HELPING: ‘Stuff the Bus’ for The Pantry /news/holiday-helping-stuff-bus-pantry <p class="MsoNormal">A vintage London double-decker bus will be parked in the Davis Food Co-op parking lot this Saturday (Dec. 11), waiting to be stuffed — stuffed with your donations of food and a few other of life’s necessities. All donations will be turned over to the <a href="https://thepantry.ucdavis.edu/">ASUCD Pantry</a>, which aims to ensure students in need don’t miss a meal or go without other basic necessities while trying to stay in school.</p> December 07, 2021 - 11:48pm Dave Jones /news/holiday-helping-stuff-bus-pantry HOLIDAY HELPING: Collecting for Kids and Pets /news/holiday-helping-collecting-kids-and-pets <p class="MsoNormal"><span>As November turns to December, ٺƵ-affiliated organizations are mounting their annual holiday drives for toys for the children of Yolo County and patients of ٺƵ Children</span>’<span>s Hospital, and one for the benefit of Mercer Clinic pets (dog and cat companions of unhoused people).</span></p> November 23, 2021 - 1:59pm Dave Jones /news/holiday-helping-collecting-kids-and-pets