{"id":3803,"date":"2026-10-06T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:02:11","slug":"jccc-launch-on-the-lawn-event-fundraises-for-holiday-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2026\/10\/06\/jccc-launch-on-the-lawn-event-fundraises-for-holiday-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"JCCC “Launch On The Lawn” Event Fundraises For Holiday Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game on at the Johnson County Community College Gives Event. Come bump, set, spike at the Johnson County Gives 2026 Event. Together we rise, together we spike at the Johnson County Gives Event. Photo By: Josiah Ann Nelson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The student senate is kicking off <\/span>JCCC Gives<\/span><\/a> for 2026 by hosting Launch on the Lawn. JCCC Gives raises money for a campus-wide holiday assistance program for students, faculty, and staff. Launch on the Lawn will occur at Fountain Square on Oct. 8, 2026, from 12 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to people coming and supporting students who could face financial difficulties during the holidays,\u201d said Priviledge Mudzembwe, interim executive board member of the Student Senate. \u201cAlso, the community coming and donating money.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Student Senate wanted to do something this year to increase visibility for JCCC Gives and host a kickoff party to celebrate the annual giving event. The event will help raise awareness of JCCC Gives, and the senate hopes to kick off the JCCC Gives year by raising more funds. All donations raised go toward JCCC Gives.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

JCCC Gives is a campus-wide holiday assistance program that supports members of the JCCC community who face hardships. JCCC students, faculty, and staff can nominate fellow students, faculty, or staff members who may need extra support during the holiday season.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ashley Calibo, serving on the interim executive board of the Student Senate, said that anyone experiencing financial hardship is eligible for nomination.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNominations for JCCC Gives will open in October, and then adoptions will begin in early November,\u201d Calibo said.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then community members can select individuals to help. It is like an angel tree but the entire process is done online.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo we’ll have a SignUpGenius for everyone to adopt someone from that form,\u201d Calibo said. \u201cIt’ll specify whether it’s an adult or a child, and then the item that they would like.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Launch on the Lawn<\/span><\/a> will feature a team volleyball tournament with a suggested donation of $100 per team, a cornhole tournament with a suggested donation of $30 per team, and a club penny wars competition, with every penny raised going toward JCCC Gives.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“We are trying to make it more exciting by giving prizes to the winners,\u201d Mudzembwe said. \u201cWe’re also trying to give free pizzas to the clubs that win the penny wars.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the Launch on the Lawn, the Student Senate will host an event on Nov. 18 called the JCCC Gives market. That event will feature homemade goods made by local businesses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe market is going to be, you know, the community coming together to sell things they create,\u201d Calibo said. \u201cThat money from the JCCC Gives market is going to go back to the Student Senate.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to the Launch on the Lawn, the Student Senate will host an event on Nov. 18 called the JCCC Gives market. That event will feature homemade goods made by local businesses.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3804,"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":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78,26],"ppma_author":[342],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-cavs","tag-jccc"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Saul Epstein","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sepstein\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/10\/IMG_0727-300x199.jpeg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mike-kemper\/","display_name":"Mike Kemper"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Life<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Life<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Cavs<\/a>","JCCC<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Cavs<\/span>","JCCC<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 day ago","modified":"Updated 1 day ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 6, 2026","modified":"Updated on October 6, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 6, 2026 12:00 pm","modified":"Updated on October 6, 2026 2:02 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":342,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"mike-kemper","display_name":"Mike Kemper","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\/10\/IMG_0727.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}