Pure Motivation recently celebrated its 100th event and 7th anniversary by packaging over 100,为饥饿的孩子们提供1万顿饭. 这个团体与…联合起来 到处喂养儿童, a social charity that provides healthy meals for children and families around the world.

This isn’t the first time Pure Motivation – a group whose mission is to harness the power of 满帆’s creative compassion to positively impact our community – has worked with FCE, but it is the first time they’ve hosted their own FCE event.

“I’ve wanted to have Feeding Children on campus for a long time, so when we were thinking about our 100th event, they were the first organization I sought out, 他们立刻答应了,斯泰西·奥玛拉说, 专业发展总监.

Next, Stacy gathered help from all corners of campus. “We obtained approval from the executive committee, 通知媒体团队进行外联, 在Connect上发布视频和文章, 印刷海报和t恤. 有很多人参与其中, all the way down to figuring out who would actually receive the boxes of food and set up.”

上午10点.m. 8月19日, Pure Motivation welcomed the day’s first group of volunteers into the 满帆 Live Venue, which had been transformed into an upbeat, music-filled, 食品包装聚会空间. 全体教职工, 戴着配套的发网和t恤, gathered around rows of tables and scooped meal ingredients into bags, 流水线式. Every minute or so the music was punctuated by a loud cheer from one of the groups, 表明另一个目标已经实现.

“每个饥饿项目都是独一无二的,Jarrod Fucci解释道, Vice President of Development at 到处喂养儿童. “But at this one specifically, there was an energy like no other. You could feel the joy in the room from outside the building.”

在一天结束的时候, over 300 faculty members and 200 students packaged a total of 104,832份餐点, which were then shipped to hungry families in Latin America.

“This was incredibly personal,” says Stacy. “[Pure Motivation] is something I’ve been a part of since its inception, and to see it reach this milestone and to be supported on campus, 放眼望去，看到的不仅仅是学生, but staff and department heads and our executive team with their hair nets on, working shoulder to shoulder with our students … You can see that we don’t just talk about how 满帆 cares. 满帆真的很在乎.”

“We brought people out and did something fun for a good cause, but to know that people were actually inspired and moved and touched, I don’t know how often you get to say that in a day of work.”

到处喂养儿童 graciously donated all of the food packaged at the event – and in return, 满帆’s student-led production agency SPARK provided the organization with a video for future promotional purposes.

Future events are already on the schedule, and include National Public Lands Day (Sept. 26), Making Strides Against Breast Cancer (Oct. 《og体育》(Miracle League)(11月11日). 21). 在线 students may contact the Professional Development office to find out about virtual volunteer opportunities.