{"id":5508,"date":"2019-03-05T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:24:13","slug":"35-jars-of-peanut-butter-collected-for-the-uno-food-pantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2019\/03\/05\/35-jars-of-peanut-butter-collected-for-the-uno-food-pantry\/","title":{"rendered":"35 jars of peanut butter collected for the UNO food pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Great things happen when we bounce ideas around during wellness walks!<\/p>\n<p>For staff members Tammy O&#8217;Donnell, Cindy Skarda, and Kim Corum, inspiration came during a walk as they discussed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/28\/uno-food-pantry-available-to-unmc-students\/\">article in UNMC Today<\/a> about how the UNO food pantry is available to UNMC students. They thought it would be nice to start a collection drive for the pantry.<\/p>\n<p>The CAHP Wellness Committee agreed and bins and fliers soon went up in Bennett Hall. They focused on just one item, peanut butter, an easy protein to add to a grocery list.<\/p>\n<p>Jars rolled in over two weeks and the result was about 35 pounds of peanut butter and a couple of added snack donations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hit 70% of our goal and I think that was pretty successful,&#8221; said Tammy. &#8220;It&#8217;ll help at least 35 students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, our CAHP student ambassadors are <strong>currently collecting<\/strong> further donations in Omaha and Kearney (fliers below). Bins are located in Bennett Hall, MSC, the library, College of Pharmacy, and the HSEC in Kearney. Their drive will go <strong>through March 13th<\/strong>, and in addition to <strong>food<\/strong> for the UNO pantry, they are collecting <strong>toiletries<\/strong> and <strong>clothing<\/strong> donations for the Open door Mission. Food donations in Kearney will go to the Crossroads Center Rescue Mission.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great things happen when we bounce ideas around during wellness walks! For staff members Tammy O&#8217;Donnell, Cindy Skarda, and Kim Corum, inspiration came during a walk as they discussed an article in UNMC Today about how the UNO food pantry is available to UNMC students. They thought it would be nice to start a collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,6,45,46,7,49,53,8,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-extended-family","category-frontpage","category-health","category-kudos","category-medical-laboratory-science","category-mits","category-nutrition","category-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7319,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/7319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}