Today, the Mercy Anchor Community Center held its \u201cStuff the Box\u201d event, collecting donations for Goodwill. The partnership helps continue the mission of supporting women and families in transition at a critical time.<\/p>\n
Just outside the Mercy Anchor Community Center, cars arrived full of donations to fill rows of boxes. The goal is simple; fill as many boxes as possible to support Goodwill, who in turn gives back to the Mercy Center for Women.<\/p>\n
This effort comes at a time when homelessness and domestic violence are on the rise.<\/p>\n
Director Jennie Hagerty stated that, \u201cWith homelessness on the rise and domestic violence and addiction, the community coming together, whether it\u2019s gifts in kind or monetary donations, really makes a difference in someone\u2019s journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
For every box filled, Goodwill donates $50 to the Mercy Center for Women which can help fund housing, education, and stability programs.<\/p>\n
Donations from the public are sorted and boxed throughout the day. Organizers of the event stated that the partnership with Goodwill has helped continue the public\u2019s effort in giving back to those directly in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have our own local executive board, and everything stays in Pennsylvania.\u201d Stated Phil Johnston Goodwill CEO of Northwest Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
With boxes filled to help Goodwill, the impact creates a positive chain reaction for nonprofits across the community all while helping women take their next steps forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the Mercy Anchor Community Center held its \u201cStuff the Box\u201d event, collecting donations for Goodwill. The partnership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4509,136,138,137,7856,26938,76046,76045],"class_list":["post-168862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-donations","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-goodwill","tag-mercy-center-for-women","tag-stuff-the-box","tag-women-in-need"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}