{"id":20885,"date":"2025-12-08T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=20885"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:21:17","slug":"elizabethtown-college-collects-gifts-spreads-hope-through-angel-tree-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/elizabethtown-college-collects-gifts-spreads-hope-through-angel-tree-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Collects Gifts, Spreads Hope Through Angel Tree Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Student Assembly members helped gift-wrap Angel Tree presents on Dec. 3 in the BSC<\/p><\/div>\n

Elizabethtown College continued its annual tradition of giving back to the community during the holiday season through the campus-wide Angel Tree initiative. This year\u2019s project brought together <\/span>over 250 campus community participants to donate <\/span>more than 1,250 gifts to organizations throughout the region.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Angel Tree is a gift-giving event sponsored by the College\u2019s<\/span> Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE)<\/span><\/a> and Student Assembly that provides holiday gifts to community members in need.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve loved seeing how engaged and excited our campus community has been with Angel Tree, supporting 13 community partners across three counties,\u201d Elizabethtown College CCCE Program Manager, Brianna Titi said. \u201cIt\u2019s a powerful reminder that service isn\u2019t just something we talk about at Etown – it\u2019s something we actively live out.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Donations are being distributed to community partners Dec. 8 through 12.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The CCCE partnered with 13 organizations in Elizabethtown, Harrisburg, and Lancaster regions including Salvation Army of Lancaster, Boys and Girls Club of Harrisburg, The Joshua Group, Clare House, ECHOES, Elizabethtown Senior Center, Accent Care Hospice, Lancaster County Chooses Love, Water Street Mission, <\/span>Catholic Charities Immigration & Refugee Services of Harrisburg, and<\/span><\/a> Lancaster-Lebanon Habitat for Humanity (LLHH) to deliver gifts to children, families, and elderly individuals.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Angel Tree provides an opportunity to deepen connections with community partners, such as LLHH. Students enjoyed a full-circle moment by donating a gift basket to the owners of a recently completed LLHH home in Lebanon, which students helped build on a <\/span>Fall Break Service Trip in October.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAngel Tree connects our campus to the surrounding community to spread holiday cheer,\u201d\u00a0 CCCE Student Assistant and dual Public Health and Political Science Major, Elsa Woodarek \u201926 said. \u201cThis year<\/span>,<\/span> we partnered with more organizations than ever before, spreading joy and hope across Elizabethtown, Harrisburg, and Lancaster. It’s beautiful to see our campus community come together to make the holidays brighter for those around us.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College continued its annual tradition of giving back to the community during the holiday season through the campus-wide Angel Tree initiative. This year\u2019s project brought together over 250 campus community participants to donate more than 1,250 gifts to organizations throughout the region.\u00a0 Angel Tree is a gift-giving event sponsored by the College\u2019s Center for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":20886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775],"tags":[1470,1139,309,197,1350],"class_list":["post-20885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","tag-angel-tree","tag-ccce","tag-educate-for-service","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20903,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885\/revisions\/20903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}