{"id":46676,"date":"2017-05-03T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=46676"},"modified":"2017-05-04T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:44:01","slug":"bumc-employees-participate-in-global-days-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/05\/03\/bumc-employees-participate-in-global-days-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"BUMC Employees Participate in Global Days of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46689\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_8266-e1493827446807-636x428.jpg\" alt=\"From left to right: Amanda Tan, Kate Petcosky, Sam Boadu, Fredric Majnoun, Wanda Roberts and Julia Huntsman\" width=\"636\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_8266-e1493827446807-636x428.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_8266-e1493827446807-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_8266-e1493827446807-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_8266-e1493827446807.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Amanda Tan, Kate Petcosky, Sam Boadu, Fredric Majnoun, Wanda Roberts and Julia Huntsman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the past eight years staff, faculty, students and alumni have participated in Boston University\u2019s annual Global Days of Service, a month long event sponsored by the BU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/\">Alumni Association<\/a>\u00a0and the BU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csc\/\">Community Service Center<\/a><span> website<\/span>.\u00a0 This year 13 employees of the Office of Financial and Grants Administration, Office of Proposal Development and the Dean\u2019s Office volunteered.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Petcosky, Wanda Roberts, Sam Boadu, Amanda Tan, Julia Huntsman and Fredric Majnoun sorted, packed and labeled food that was later distributed to hunger relief agencies at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbfb.org\/\">Greater Boston Food Bank<\/a><span>,<\/span> the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46690\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/file5-e1493827205272-636x625.jpeg\" alt=\"Chelsea Rathbun and Tennyson Hunt\" width=\"234\" height=\"230\" class=\" wp-image-46690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/file5-e1493827205272-636x625.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/file5-e1493827205272-768x755.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/05\/file5-e1493827205272-1024x1007.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea Rathbun and Tennyson Hunt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chelsea Rathbun, Tennyson Hunt, Larysa Malinouskaya, Lena Rybak, Katie Stocking, Elaine Lee and Cindy-jo Gross sorted clothes, books and toys for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cradlestocrayons.org\/\">Cradles to Crayons<\/a> in Brighton. This organization provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive \u2013 at home, at school and at play.<\/p>\n<p>These BUMC employees joined 1,346 university volunteers and contributed 8,070 hours as part of 183 projects in 92 cities worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen employees from the offices of the Dean,  Financial and Grants Administration, and Proposal Development participated in Boston University\u2019s annual Global Days of Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[146,91,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46676"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46728,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46676\/revisions\/46728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}