STUDENTS GIVE BACK WITH INVENTIVE SOLUTIONS

Robert Hornung

• Students at Indiana University Northwest banded together recently to participate in Philanthropy Week

• Students were challenged to come up with new and interesting ways to give back to their community as a whole

• The proposed and wildly successful idea was a KanJam tournament that helped gross a food collection of over 900 items

• The food pantry is right on campus making it even easier for the donations to be served

• The tournament was designed as a 40-team double-elimination event

• Students rushed to register their teams with just 4 cans per team as the fee

• This “fee” would be passed exponentially by each team allowing for hundreds and hundreds of canned items to be collected and eventually given to more needy parties

• Kristofer Schnatz, the Executive Director of Athletics was inter viewed on the KanJam tournament and Philanthropy Week and he couldn’t have been more proud of the student body

• Schnatz said, “We had an outstanding turnout and this event was a huge success. Our students donated more than we expected and they had a blast doing it. We plan to make this an annual event on campus for our students and our campus community.”

• Schnatz made special mention to Dustin Cantrell’s sociology class that set the bar extremely high and encouraged others to donate anything they could

• The difference made by Mr. Cantrell will impact c o u n t l e s s p e o p l e a n d d e s e r v e s a commendable applause

• Cur ren t l y the S tuden t Gover nment Association is developing the on-campus food pantr y that will hopefully provide IU Northwest students and families access to donated items during the event

• The pantry will also continue to accept donations for future events as well

• Events and strong turnouts like this are truly inspirational and are something to aspire to for each school, business, and professional organization

• Thank you to Indiana University Northwest for providing others with suppor t through inventive philanthropic efforts

Robert Hornung

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