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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDate: 2007-10-12
Contact: Kim Wall
Public Relations Program Coordinator
Marketing and Community Relations Office
University of New Hampshire, Manchester
(603) 641-4306
kim.wall@unh.edu
UNH Manchester Community Leadership Program
Millyard Businesses Partner for Warmth From The Millyard Winter Clothing Drive
Manchester, N.H. &mdash: For those of us with the means to keep ourselves warm, winter in New Hampshire can be beautiful and invigorating. But for many others, winter means only one thing: misery.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, almost 25,000 Hillsborough County residents live in poverty. Forced to choose between the rising costs of medicine, heating fuel, rent and gasoline, too many of our fellow residents simply don’t have enough money to buy food, much less “luxury” items such as heavy coats, children’s snow pants, gloves, scarves, mittens, sweaters, blankets and hats.
To help meet this need, the Community Leadership program at UNH-Manchester is sponsoring Warmth from the Millyard, a warmth drive to be held Oct. 29 – Nov. 9. The drive will collect winter clothing items for distribution to area charitable organizations including the YWCA, New Horizons for New Hampshire and SHARE of Milford NH.
Partnering with the Community Leadership program for Warmth from the Millyard are a number of Millyard businesses including the Manchester School District, FIRST, Autodesk, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the Manchester Historic Association/Millyard Museum and the SEE Science Center. These businesses will host collection boxes where their employees and customers can donate clean and useable winter clothing. The collection boxes themselves will be decorated by girls in the YWCA’s after-school child care program. There will also be collection boxes in the UNH Manchester lobby at 400 Commercial Street. Morgan Storage has generously donated storage for the clothes collected during the drive.
“With wages not keeping up with the increasing cost of living, we’re seeing more and more people taking advantage of our services,” said Mary Silva, donations coordinator at New Horizons for New Hampshire. “Warmth from the Millyard will have a profound impact in the lives of our clients this year.”
Created at the University of New Hampshire’s flagship campus in Durham in 2000, the Community Leadership program is an innovative program that combines a rigorous academic program with service learning, leadership development and nonprofit management. The Community Leadership program was brought to UNH Manchester in fall 2007.
UNH Manchester, UNH's urban campus, offers liberal arts and applied majors in business, science, and technology, all with an urban focus. UNH Manchester is UNH. Learn more at www.unhm.unh.edu.
