The University of Findlay - Thank You Messages

As the Campus Compact Center for Service and Learning receives notes of gratitude from community partners to UF faculty, staff, and students, we will post them here for all to see and enjoy. All original thank you messages that are sent to Campus Compact will be kept at the Center. If you have any questions or you would like to see or receive a copy of one, stop by the Center at 212 Howard St. Thank you to everyone who is involved in service and who has helped our community partners!

Spring 2012 Mobile Food Pantry Thank You

Dear Friends,
Thank you for funding and hosting another successful food pantry on March 24. With your help we were able to distribute 10,000 pounds of food to 187 familites representing 787 individuals!

During 2011, Chopin Hall was able to bring 20,000 additional pounds of food into Hancock County through the mobile food pantries. This is greatly appreciated by many who depend on Chopin Hall and the food pantries to help them have enough food to eat. We look forward to having a successful year for 2012 also.

Please extend our thanks to the students and staff of the University of Findlay. It was such a priviledge to be able to work with your volunteers who shared such compassion and kindness to one another and our clients. It was great to see the friendship and respect between the International students and the American students. Their energy and enthusiasm to do a good job was contagious.

Thanks to the University of Findlay for acting as a partner in supporting Chopin Hall's mission to feed the hungry. We are truly blessed to have the constant support of the University of Findlay, its faculty, and students.
Chopin Hall's Mobile Food Pantry Coordinator

Fall 2011 Orientation Service Project

I am writing this letter to thank you for the support that the University of Findlay showed this past Saturday, August 20, at the Hancock County SWMD Electronics Recycling Event. The success of this event was due in large part to you and the student volunteers from the University of Findlay. We were ready to go and the participants were lining up and getting anxious so we started the event a little early, about 8:30 a.m. The small staff we had on hand became overwhelmed and tired quickly. When the bus from the University showed up, it was like the old time movies when the Calvary came to save the day. 39 volunteers got off of the bus and changed the entire outlook for the day. When I say volunteers I mean some of the most polite, courteous, willing to jump in and get it done, group of gentlemen. This event was a success because of your actions and the community spirit of the students at the University of Findlay.
Hancock County Solid Waste Management District

I want to thank you and your two groups of students who spent the day helping Wood Lane Residential Services on August 20, 2011. It is refreshing to know that the University of Findlay uses community service as a foundation for its students. We appreciate being the recipient of this generosity. The students who came in the morning reportedly worked very hard weeding at a couple of our facilities. The Maintenance Supervisor said they were eager to get to work, meticulous in what they did, and were an overall good group of people. The students who came in the afternoon played lawn games with individuals in one of our group homes. It was a great distraction from the typical Saturday. Our staff reports that the men living in the home enjoyed having the students visit. Once again, thank you for extending your generosity to Wood Lane Residential Services, Inc.
Wood Lane Residential Services, Inc.

Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to participate in the Freshman orientation service project. We have enjoyed meeting the students and so appreciate their hard work. It was a pleasure having them and they worked very hard. Without their help we would not have had the time or energy to accomplish the tasks we gave them. They are a great bunch of young adults and you should be very proud of your students. We have included them in our prayer list and will continue to pray for them throughout the school year. We look forward to having this opportunity again next year. Please let these students know we thank them for the hard work.
McComb Presbyterian Church

Thank you so very much for sending those 13 wonderful students last Saturday to Concordia. They accomplished so much in a relatively short time. You are to be commended for this beneficial community outreach.
Concordia Lutheran Church

Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Academic Service-Learning Comments from Community Partners

We love having the students. Thank you for all you do to create partnerships between UF and the community!
Mission Possible

Students were very interested in achieving desired results and helping to serve the community.
HHWP Community Action Commission

Spring 2010 Volunteer Thank You Messages

Thank you so much for helping with our first community wide screening! Having your help in gathering volunteers for our event was a huge lifesaver...we definitely needed all the extra hands there to assist. I know the committee and the families were glad you were there!
Thanks again!
Staff at Help Me Grow

Dear Circle K Students,
Thank you and your fellow students for providing our cancer patients with fleece blankets.
Not only will these blankets keep our patients warm while receiving chemotherapy, but they will provide them with a sense of comfort in knowing there are others who care about them during challenging times.
Warmly,
Staff & Patients of Blanchard Valley Cancer Center

Fall 2009 Volunteer Thank You Messages

I would like to thank everyone that helped out this week to inventory and load the trailers at Whirlpool...it seemed like a Whirlwind! And it was, but we got the job done except for a few appliances that would not fit. It seemed like it was a beehive of activity for three hours...WOW, with a little (or a lot) of sweat, blood, (I think we dodged the tears). It was a great turnout!! Looking forward to unloading soon! Great job! (good things can come out of a little chaos once in a while)
Thanks!
Habitat for Humanity of Findlay/Hancock County Affiliate ReStore Committee

I want to THANK YOU for putting our fundraiser on your email list of opportunities! I had eight students who volunteered to help with our set-up, serving and tear down and I don't know how we would have done it without them. We very much appreciate our collaborative relationship with the University students and all of you at Campus Compact.
Thanks again!
Women's Resource Center

2009 Orientation Service Project Thank You Messages

Thank you so much for the opportunity of having a few of your students at our church for service day. We had a great day! They did some much needed work and it was great to connect with some wonderful young adults.
Thanks again,
Findlay First Church of the Nazarene

Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and caring for our residents. May your unselfish acts return to you threefold.
Bless you all,
The Staff of Findlay Senior Towers

Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts for volunteering your time during the Campus Compact New Student Orientation Service Day project with The University of Findlay at the American Red Cross Hancock County Chapter. The work that you accomplished was amazing and made a big difference in the presentation of our facility and to the clients we service. Your efforts were greatly appreciated. The University of Findlay students and staff have a great reputation in Hancock County due to people like yourself who give to the community in so many different ways.
American Red Cross Hancock County Chapter

Thank you so much for all you did for us on Saturday. You are truly awesome people. Good luck to you in all you do.
Senior Tower Residents

I would just like to extend a huge thanks to the four wonderful volunteers. The girls did a great job helping at Basu Point. They worked hard on many tasks including painting used lawn furniture, organizing a linen closet and garage, scrubbing down an outside porch and mulching. Hopefully, the girls enjoyed themselves and were able to develop some friendships and ideas of resources in the community. It was encouraging to see by the end of their time at Basu Point a much more relaxed feel. Four young ladies coming from all over Colorado, Virginia, Haskins, and St. Marys, Ohio learning about one another. Thanks Again!
Hancock County Community Partnership

Hard work deserves our praise! This community gained a great deal Saturday as the river clean-up attracted a nice turnout of first year University of Findlay students and other local volunteers, helping clean-up the Blanchard River west of the downtown. Good works never seem to get enough headlines. Several businesses contributed crews, tools, and supplies, including: a boat and dumpsters from H&O Services, help from the west-side Wal-Mart and the University students on community service before classes start. Many of them not even from the Findlay area or watershed. The cooperation of city and county departments helped smooth the operation of our project. Tons of debris were hauled away which improves the scenery and water quality to increase the value of the river to all the residents of the watershed. Interesting items removed from the river included: over 100 muddy tires, a locked safe which the Police came to pick up and furniture to outfit a house. Our champions deserve our appreciation; those who dump and litter in our waterways need to reconsider destroying the river that give them their water to drink.
Blanchard River Watershed Partnership

The group did a fantastic job! The staff is raving about all they accomplished and the quality of the job. Thanks so much for thinking of us. It is a great relief to have all of that ready for our carnival!Camp Fire USA

I just want to let you know how much we appreciated ALL the help you and your staff and students provide to Birchaven during your 2009 New Student Orientation. I have received many compliments from many people about a job “Well Done!” Thank you again for your time and effort that you and the University of Findlay have invested into Birchaven Retirement Village.
Birchaven Retirement Village

Please accept our deepest appreciation for labor of the students who served at College First on Saturday. They washed exterior windows around the building and interior windows at the sanctuary, scrubbed the tops of pews in the sanctuary and walls in our education building, cleaned toys in our nursery and chairs in our Fellowship Hall. The students worked hard, were very focused, and represented the University very well in their acts of service. I enjoyed meeting some of the students and getting to know a bit of their backgrounds. They will add a wonderful dimension to the rich life of the University. As you may be able, please extend our gratitude to the students who served our congregation. We are grateful for their service, and certainly wish each student well as they begin their studies at the Univerisity.
Sincerely yours,
College First Church of God

On behalf of Habitat for Humanity, thank you for volunteering with us on Saturday, August 22^nd at the build site. Whether you set up tables, stuffed goody bags, or put the grill together- you were a great help in preparing for our upcoming build. We wish you well in your career at the University of Findlay and hope you consider volunteering with Habitat again in the future. If you are interested, please contact Crystal Weitz in Campus Compact to connect with the Habitat Chapter on campus at campuscompact@findlay.edu.
Thank you again!!
Habitat for Humanity of Findlay/Hancock County

Thank you for sharing your muscles, time, and patience with us at First United Church of Christ on Saturday, August 22, 2009, Orientation Service Day. Your help was GREATLY APPRECIATED!!! We were impressed with how delightful and helpful all of you were. We hope that you could have a good chuckle at how important some of the "stuff" from the store room was to us 'old folks'. I'm also sure that you noticed how each one of us had our own opinions as to how and where everything should be, (myself included!!) Sending you our best wishes that you will be successful, not only during your college days, but also in life.
The Church Family at First United Church of Christ

I wanted to take a moment to let you know how great it was to have the students here for the Service Day on August 22nd. They were such hard workers and so polite! Please pass our Thanks onto them! We are planning on being at the Volunteer Fair on September 24th and are very excited about it. Thanks for organizing these great opportunities and keep us posted on anymore that occur!
Thanks again!
The Lutheran Social Services Findlay Team

We want to send a big Thank You for your help to our Camp Fire USA Council. The carnival signs and the painting of the porch made a big difference. We had about 40 families attend our carnival and the painted hot air balloon and basket were a hit.
Thanks!
Camp Fire USA

On Saturday, August 22, two groups of five freshmen students from the University of Findlay helped out with Chopin Hall activities. The groups were part of the approximately 550 first-year students who were part of a service initiative organized by the Campus Compact Center for Service & Learning. The volunteer effort was designed to help meet the needs of the local Findlay/Hancock County community, while giving students a chance to bond with each other and the community before they started classes. Thanks to the University of Findlay for arranging for the students to help out with Chopin Hall.
Chopin Chatter, the newsletter of Chopin Hall