One person’s junk, as they say, is another’s treasure. Items that would be bound for the trash heap but instead were donated by departing students last summer raised more than $8,000 for the campus InterFaith Center and food and other resources for local organizations.
It is the 11th year for the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍÅ¶Ó Gives Back program, in which students provide unwanted items that are collected in May as part of the college’s recycling efforts. The annual tag sale on move-in weekend sells the couches, pots and other living staples as low-cost options for incoming and returning students.
This year’s sale raised $8,091, which will be used for the InterFaith Center’s operating budget and its Raise the Roof fund, for roof repairs.
Unsold items were given to local nonprofit organizations, including:
- Nearly 2,000 pounds of food provided to the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍŶÓ/Groveland Food Pantry, Â鶹´«Ã½ÍÅ¶Ó Parish Outreach Center, the Backpack Program and Teresa House hospice.
- Three bags of mattress pads and sleeping bags for the homeless (St. Paul Lutheran Church, Batavia)
- Egg crate pads for the Community Steel Drum band
- Nearly 70 pounds of toiletries for the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍÅ¶Ó Parish Outreach Center