{"id":145379,"date":"2024-12-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=145379"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:27:40","slug":"books-and-bears-program-kicks-off-27th-annual-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/books-and-bears-program-kicks-off-27th-annual-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and Bears Program Kicks Off 27th Annual Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Donations benefit children of UM Facilities Management employees<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>University of Mississippi<\/strong> invites the campus community to spread the holiday cheer during the 27th annual <strong>Books and Bears<\/strong> program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Books and Bears recognizes the service of employees in the university&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/5739590020c84e56a89acc16c4329dc2\/1\/b1ba1c559ff73bb745f7cd2dfbb4fa97474bb9b355a2859d6c956c679e4779f6?cache_buster=1733079456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Facilities Management Department<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by providing children&#8217;s gifts for more than 50 families. The goal is to ensure that each employee can choose at least one book, one bear and an additional toy for their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New toys, dolls, books, bicycles and other children&#8217;s items can be dropped off through December 19, 2024. Drop-off locations are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bishop Hall, second floor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brevard Hall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Martindale-Cole Hall, Career Center<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Student Union, Center for Inclusion and Cross-Cultural Engagement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Farley Hall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FedEx Student-Athlete Academic Support Center<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lamar Hall, third floor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lyceum, first floor\u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This year, there is also a focus on increasing student participation, with more outreach to student organizations,&#8221; said <strong>Elizabeth Moore<\/strong>, director of the UM Speaking Center and co-chair of the Books and Bears Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated items will be distributed to families at 9 am December 20, 2024, in the <strong>Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union Ballroom<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Black Faculty and Staff Organization<\/strong> sponsors the annual drive, which began in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Besides dropping off toys and books, individuals can donate money via the newly introduced PayPal option at BooksandBears University of Mississippi,&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;This change aims to make it easier for individuals and groups to contribute, even if they cannot donate physical items\u200b.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Division of Outreach and Continuing Education, Staff Council, Gamma Beta Phi<\/strong> honor society, and <strong>Mortar Board<\/strong> are among the program&#8217;s supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Edwin Smith<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations benefit children of UM Facilities Management employees The University of Mississippi invites the campus community to spread<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123462,"featured_media":145411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17687],"tags":[27316,17683,20736,20417,30816,21691,30817,27582,5,30818,7067,4,18712,655],"class_list":["post-145379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-of-mississippi","tag-black-faculty-and-staff-organization","tag-books-and-bears","tag-department-of-intercollegiate-athletics","tag-division-of-outreach-and-continuing-education","tag-elizabeth-moore","tag-facilities-management-department","tag-gamma-beta-phi","tag-gertrude-c-ford-ole-miss-student-union-ballroom","tag-mississippi","tag-mortar-board","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-staff-council","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ucimg-3351.webp?fit=1232%2C690&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145380,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145379\/revisions\/145380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}