{"id":3052,"date":"2026-03-09T18:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:13:17","slug":"jcccs-phi-theta-kappa-honors-society-to-host-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2026\/03\/09\/jcccs-phi-theta-kappa-honors-society-to-host-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"JCCC’s Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society to Host Food Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

(“<\/a>20160617-OSEC-LSC-0263<\/a>\u201d by\u00a0<\/a>U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>Public Domain Mark<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Phi Theta Kappa Honor S<\/span>ociety\u2019s food drive is live now through spring break to support JCCC\u2019s Student Basic Needs Center. Located in GEB 153, this organization supports students who are struggling to buy food and other personal care items.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the hardest time of the year for the Basic Needs Center,\u201d Edward Brooks, PTK service officer, said. \u201cThe food drive is a competition between clubs, but students can still donate.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PTK will be hosting the event on March 11 in GEB 140 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe club with the most points gets a party fully funded by the PTK. We have 50 points for baby products, 40 points for hygiene products, 30 points for spices, 20 points for non-perishable food and 10 points for dollar donations,\u201d Privilege Mudzembwe, vice president of PTK, said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything that is donated directly helps the people here at JCCC. Food is not the only thing that can be donated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOther items like soap and laundry detergent can be donated, [not just] food,\u201d Brooks said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Canned foods, pastas, jellies and spices are also acceptable things to donate. The Basic Needs Center needs all the help students can provide and appreciates any and all the items you can donate. As Brooks repeated, anything helps.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society\u2019s food drive is live now through spring break to support JCCC\u2019s Student Basic Needs Center. Located in GEB 153, this organization supports students who are struggling to buy food and other personal care items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[341],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Saul Epstein","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sepstein\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_2026-03-09_180113.png","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/thomas-sublet\/","display_name":"Thomas Sublet"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 months ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 9, 2026","modified":"Updated on March 9, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 9, 2026 6:11 pm","modified":"Updated on March 9, 2026 6:13 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":341,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"thomas-sublet","display_name":"Thomas Sublet","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_2026-03-09_180113.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}