Canaday Patrons' Penny Jar Donations!
Thanks so much to everyone who's tossed their spare change into the Canaday Patrons' Penny Jar, located just inside the main entrance of Canaday Library!
This year, $40.00 in donations went to purchase goats for families in Malawi via The Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance.
Last year, $40.00 in donations went to Philadelphia's Bread & Roses Community Fund.
Over the years, the penny jar has collected over $1100.00 in $35-40 increments. This money has been donated to local, national, and international organizations including Manna, Trinity Center for Urban Life Winter Shelter, South-Indian Women's Self-Help Association, a Costa Rican children's sports center, and many others.
Thanks for your continued thoughtfulness and support of this Bryn Mawr mini-tradition!
Comments
Anne Slater said on December 2, 2006 1:43 PM:[link to this]
The Penny Jar was "founded" by Maggie Nerz, sometime library assistant in Canaday and sister of Mary Ellen Nerz-Stormes of the faculty. The biggest givers, early on, were the kids form the "Summer Institute for the Gifted".