The Catholic Campus Ministry held its annual Midnight Run on Friday, November 2 bringing food, clothing, hope and friendship to the homeless of New York City.

The students’ spirit, compassion and enthusiasm brought smiles to some of the people who need it most.

Now in its fifth year, the annual Midnight Run program has helped hundreds of homeless people in New York City.

The Midnight Run, organized by the student-run Newman Club of the Catholic Campus Ministry, takes a lot of planning and preparing. Students collected and sorted clothing donations during the fall semester, grouping the clothes by sizes. Then they prepared food and snacks to share with the people they met.

Eighteen members of the Catholic Campus Ministry spent the night delivering the clothing, toiletries, blankets and sandwiches with humility and gentleness, treating each person they encountered with patience and respect.

Learn more about the Catholic Campus Ministry: http://www.newmanconnection.com/locations/detail/3016

Stony Brook University was again nationally-recognized with the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary community service programs in four categories: General Community Service, Economic Opportunity,  Education, and  Interfaith Service.

The Office of Government and Community Relations is proud to present some of the ways Stony Brook University students, faculty and staff share their time to create effective and meaningful campus and community partnerships.

A new story will be posted every day in December.

Students in the University Scholars Program at Stony Brook University are focused on scholarship, leadership and service.

A project from the group that encompasses all three areas is the Long Island Book Drive which has one simple goal: get books into the hands of those who need them to be empowered and succeed.

Some of the books donated to the Wyandanch School District through the Long Island Book Drive program.

The University Scholars team collects books in any condition, any genre or reading level. Books in good enough condition to be donated find new homes with eager readers on Long Island and around the globe. Books that are damaged are properly recycled.

To increase the range for collecting and distributing books, the University Scholars team has partnered with four school districts on Long Island. There are hundreds of high school or middle school students, ages 10-18, working hard to collect books in their area.

The local school districts and their student organizers are at the heart of the initiative. At this student-run initiative, they develop their leadership and community involvement skills.

Thousands of books have been collected during the year. In May, the first donation of 2,235 books was made to the Wyandanch School District.

Book drives are also conducted on the Stony Brook University campus. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to donate unused literature to collection bins located throughout the campus.

31 Days of Giving Back 2015 Summary

The students, faculty and staff at Stony Brook University donate a considerable amount of their time, talent and resources to improve the lives of those around them at the holidays and all the year through. The examples here are just a small sampling of the community engagement going on from all points of the campus. Stony Brook is proud to be a caring community. We hope you enjoyed the glimpse in to some of the ways we show how much we care.

Questions or comments? Contact the Stony Brook University Office of Community Relations at (631) 632-9117 or email Joan.Dickinson@stonybrook.edu