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Penn Serves LA: Finding our Inner Artists at Inner-City Arts
More than 70 local Penn alumni and family members turned out in force on the last Saturday in January to work alongside the children of Commonwealth Avenue Elementary School at Penn Serves LA’s third...
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Penn Serves LA: Habitat for Humanity
By Kiera Reilly, C’93 @KieraReilly On Saturday morning, March 9th, I drove to a house in Lynnwood, California, hoping to take photos of the Penn Serves LA group working on a Habitat for Humanity of...
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Penn Serves LA – One on One Outreach
Filling the Most Basic of Our Needs, The Neighborly Way: Penn Serves One on One Outreach by Leanne Huebner, W’90 “Am I in the right place?” thought more than one volunteer as the Penn Serves LA...
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Penn Serves LA: Serving the Environment and LA Leadership Academy
By Kiera Reilly, C’93 @KieraReilly Penn Serves LA, the community service initiative launched in 2012 by Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16, Leanne Pyott Huebner, W’90 and Denise Winner, W’83,...
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Penn Serves LA Sending Holiday Warmth to Our Troops
By Kiera Reilly, C’93 @KieraReilly Do you remember receiving that handwritten or hand crafted card and feeling special? That is exactly the sentiment Penn Serves volunteers hope to give to our troops...
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Penn Serves LA: Holidays are a Time for Giving
By Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16 Holidays are a time for giving, and also for giving back. Fourteen years ago a man named Tom Bagamane and his sister decided to pack forty grocery bags and hand...
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Penn Serves LA Strikes Again; This Time With Paint
By Leanne Huebner, W’90 Over thirty Penn Alumni and their children joined together for a fun beautification project for El Nido Family Centers in Mission Hills. We were thrilled that Elizabeth Fields,...
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Penn Serves LA has The Giving Spirit
By Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16 Photos by Kiera Reilly, C’93 Wonderful Penn Serves LA volunteers joined in a fantastic effort on May 30th to provide a bit of summer relief for some of the 82,000...
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Penn Serves LA Spruces Up a New Charter School
By Leanne Pyott Huebner, W’90 Valiente College Preparatory Charter School Five Large Classrooms, Five Hours, and Twenty Volunteers. That’s what the Penn Serves team had to work with this past weekend...
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Penn Serves LA Reads to Kids
By Denise Green Winner, W’83 The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving. Paper planes whizzed across the room, spitballs were stuck to the wall and their good-natured teacher Miss Nelson needed to turn...
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Penn Serves LA: Harvesting a Garden for Veterans
By Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16 In the midst of our intense and bustling city of somewhere between 13 and 18 million people, we find a few parks and refuges from the crowds. And for those whose...
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PennServes Picks Packs of Peppers at Westside Food Bank
Penn Serves LA visited the Westside Food Bank in Santa Monica on October 24 to lend a hand. Here is the report of their day by Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16. 18,000 pounds of fresh pears, apples...
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Penn Serves LA Helps Rescued Rabbits
Penn Serves LA assisted at a bunny rescue adoption event on March 12, 2016. Here is the report of their day by Denise Winner, W’83 Did you know there are more than 5,000 bunnies seeking homes in the...
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Penn Serves LA Helps L.A. Kitchen Feed the Hungry and Reduce Food Waste
By Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16 In Los Angeles, 18 million pounds of food are disposed of every day, most of which goes into incinerators or landfill. L.A. Kitchen wants to empower, nourish and...
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Got books? Penn Serves LA Staffs ICEF’s First Literacy Festival
By Leanne Huebner, W’90 Almost 100 students and family members joined the First Annual ICEF Literacy Festival, staffed by Penn Serves LA volunteers. The event was held at the newly-built View Park...
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Blankets of Love
Penn Serves launched the New Year intertwining crocheting, wine and cheese, and Quaker spirit to support Blankets of Love. Over 25 alumni and friends (women and a couple of men too) joined together for...
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Penn Serves LA Toasts the New Year
By Irene Park, C’05 Tucked away in the warm and welcoming home of alumna, Christine Belgrad, Penn alumni from a cross-section of backgrounds, interests, professions, schools, and years gathered to...
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Penn Serves LA Builds a Home with Habitat LA
By Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16 It was already warm at 8:00 am when our twenty Penn Serves LA volunteers showed up at the work site in Downey for our second Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los...
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Penn Serves LA Paints with Portraits of Hope
By Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16 Penn Serves LA at Portraits of Hope What a happy day for thirty Penn volunteers! We gathered in an air conditioned art studio in El Segundo to paint gigantic...
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Penn Serves Picks Fruit with Food Forward LA
By Jane Gutman, CW’73, PAR’14, PAR’16 It was a scorching day in the Valley (95 degrees!), but twenty some hearty and enthusiastic Penn Serves LA alumni and family gathered at lovely Orcutt Farm (where...
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