University City Hospitality Coalition - PMB 410, 3720 Spruce Street - Philadelphia, PA 19104 - (610) 527-1547
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The University City Hospitality Coalition is funded solely by donations. Please donate today via the PayPal link below. If you wish to donate by check, please contact our interim treasurer, Ryan Ward at ryandward@yahoo.com for instructions. Our United Way Donor Option Number is 09178. Thank you!
• To provide direct support services for poor and homeless people •
• To encourage empowerment and leadership among guests •
• To facilitate referrals for guests to other agencies when appropriate •
• To foster working partnerships between volunteers and guests to create an environment of mutual understanding •
Volunteers needed Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in the evening. to help prepare and serve meals. See Meal Schedule for more details.
To volunteer for Sunday please contact Kenny Ginsburg, kengi@sas.upenn.edu
For questions regarding group volunteering (groups under 4 people only) or sponsoring a meal, contact our meal coordinator at ladraud@verizon.net.
If you would like to be on the mailing list, please call us at 610-527-1547.
If you have a group that wants to help UCHC but realize that you are too many to assist at a meal (i.e., more than three), please consider making sandwiches to be passed out on a Saturday or making a night's meal of 12 casseroles or splitting into groups of 3 (or 4) and bringing fruit to a meal.
We make approximately 110 meat sandwiches (usually a turkey product of some kind because some people don't eat pork for health or religious reasons). In addition, we add a small snack, such as peanut butter or cheese crackers, to the baggie and hand out a soda to each guest. If you decide to make sandwiches, we can supply the snacks and sodas. Lunch meat is expensive and may be beyond your budget. If you would rather make nonmeat sandwiches, they can be distributed as "something extra" along with the meat sandwiches. We store the sandwiches in two large plastic garbage bags.
For casseroles, you will need to use standard tins and lids ("half-size deep steam table" 12" x 9" x 2 1/2", not counting lip) and should follow one of the recipes on the UCHC website (note the absence of pork products, for Jewish and Muslim guests). (Tins are available from UCHC, with a week's notice.) Please label all casseroles with date and contents.
Sandwiches and casseroles should be delivered to St Mary's Church between 10 and 4 weekdays (call beforehand to confirm that the office is open: 215-386-3916). We use casseroles on average twice a week and casseroles have a storage life of three weeks, so please let UCHC know when you are planning to make your casseroles.
Your casseroles will be a great help--UCHC prepares meals 250 nights a year, 60% of those 25,000 dinners are made by one person.
Recently we have occasionally added fruit to our dinner menu to the delight of our guests, and we encourage groups of 3 (or 4) to come to any meal with enough fruit for 80 folk (2 medium watermelons or a watermelon plus 4-5 cantaloupes). You can then cut up the fruit and pass it out after the guests have been served the main meal. Whole bananas are also welcome as long as they aren't completely green, and oranges and clementines are good choices, too. (Apples and other hard fruits are not as helpful because some of our guests have tooth and gum problems.) Please let us know a day in advance if you plan to do this.
For UCHC recipes, see this page.
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