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As we do each spring, the Business Services Division is pleased to announce the launch of our annual PennMOVES – Move Out Volunteers Engaging in Service – initiative. Since its inception in 2008, PennMOVES has collected close to 390,000 pounds of items that students can’t take with them when they leave campus in the summer – clothes, furniture, kitchen gear, non perishable food items, etc. Rather than ending up in the landfill, these items are now distributed to individuals and organizations throughout our local community. This year, Penn is again collaborating with Goodwill Industries to provide technical expertise and logistical support for the effort. Goodwill Industries is one of the world’s largest nonprofit providers of employment training services for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment including a new partnership with the Philadelphia’s Mayor’s Office for the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders (RISE). Launched in 2009, RISE helps get ex-offenders back on their feet and to work by receiving hands-on light industrial skills training while earning a weekly paycheck. The sale will be held June 2, 10 am to 3 pm, at Penn’s South Bank, 3401 Gray’s Ferry Ave. Admission is free, but bargain hunters can pay an early admittance fee of $5 for entry on a first-come, first-served basis between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Free parking is also available. Last year’s sale raised $25,000 the proceeds of which benefitted Goodwill’s local job training programs. Click the links on the left for more information about how to donate items, volunteer or the June 2nd sale. You can also follow us on Facebook.
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