Toy & Food Drive

For immediate release:

Cal State L.A.’s
Toy & Food Drive
Delivers Holiday Cheer
to Local Families

Los Angeles, CA -- In the holiday spirit of giving, Educational Participation in Communities (EPIC) at California State University, Los Angeles, will be collecting toys and boxes of canned food and dry goods from CSULA staff, students and faculty for it 34th Annual Holiday Toy and Food Drive. On Thursday, December 15, EPIC volunteers will deliver holiday cheer to low-income families from the surrounding campus community.

Family recipients are selected by nonprofit community agencies that are deeply rooted in the greater Los Angeles area. Last year, Cal State L.A. collected around $13,526 worth of toys and food, and delivered all the goodies to 65 families (275 children and 125 adults altogether).

For more information, please call the Cal State L.A. EPIC Office at (323) 343-3380.

PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES:
Monday, December 12
Pick up boxes from offices
Sort toys and food (PE #123/Gym)

Tuesday, December 13
Packing boxes (PE #123)
Shopping for additional toys & food from donations

Wednesday, December 14
More packing

Thursday, December 15
Agencies will pick up boxes
Some boxes delivered to Plaza Community Center

Working for California since 1947: The 175-acre hilltop campus of California State University, Los Angeles is at the heart of a major metropolitan city, just five miles from Los Angeles’ civic and cultural center. More than 20,000 students and 185,000 alumni—with a wide variety of interests, ages and backgrounds--reflect the city’s dynamic mix of populations. Six colleges offer nationally recognized science, arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and humanities programs, among others, led by an award-winning faculty. Cal State L.A. is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra and to a unique university center for gifted students as young as 12. Among programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and community include a noted alternative energy technology initiative; an NEH- and Rockefeller-supported humanities center; a NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science program, to be housed in the Los Angeles Regional Crime Lab now under construction. www.calstatela.edu