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| Charitable Giving,
Tied with a Bow
Here’s a chance to alter reality. Employees, students and departments can sponsor children and shower them with presents through the Department of Corporate and Community Services, which for more than 10 years has organized a gift-giving program as part of its Community of Caring Campaign. “This year we’re partnering with the Douglass Homes Tenant Association and will collect gifts for 300 children,” says Community Services’ Terry Todesco. The Douglass Association, which represents a public housing development located on Fayette and Orleans streets, will provide Community Services with lists of present ideas from adults or guardians who know what their children need. In past years, gifts have included toys, blankets, clothing, certificates to supermarkets, books or sports equipment. “The only criteria are that the present be new and age-appropriate,” says Todesco. Each year there are so many presents that Community Services must hire a moving company to transport the collection. “Providing for the kids is what this holiday is all about to me. Sometimes it’s an overwhelming project,” says Todesco. “But that one day when we deliver the presents makes it all worthwhile.” —Lydia Levis Bloch Info: For a list of children’s first names, gender, age and wishes, go to www.hopkinsmedicine.org/communityservices. Sponsors can drop off unwrapped presents at JHH sub-basement room 234 by Dec. 12. Gift wrappers urgently needed Dec. 12–17. To volunteer, contact Elana Omari at 410-614-0744.
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