MCC-Blue River staff celebrates the holidays with giving

Today, MCC-Blue River colleagues will celebrate the holiday season with a festive luncheon. The celebration will include tasty food, delectable desserts and a great time hanging out with Blue River colleagues.

A Party with a Purpose
Instead of a gift exchange, generosity of another sort is taking shape. The Blue River team is stepping to the plate to help others. Several opportunities to help others include:

• Adopting an ornament from a BR Christmas tree. Each ornament represents a family experiencing difficulty this holiday season.
  
  
• Giving a cash donation
  
  
• Bringing canned goods for Holiday food baskets for the adopted families

One Blue River department has found a creative way to “pool” resources for greater impact. For instance, the campus Bookstore has challenged all departments to follow their charitable lead. Here's how it will work: they each will “chip” in to buy a gift for a family on the tree. “We would like to challenge everyone to do the same; this way, nobody has to pay for it all by yourself” says Tracy Leeper in a recent email.

The staff and faculty holiday luncheon is today at 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in EC110.

Offices will not close during the luncheon.