The annual UMass Chan Cares employee giving campaign is now underway and ends on December 5th.

By visiting UMassChanCares.org, you may donate by payroll deduction, check or credit card, and direct your donation to a variety of worthy organizations and causes. They are:

• UMass Chan’s North Quadrant Support Services
• The Research Fund
• The Student Financial Aid Fund 
• The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fund
• The Max Baker Resources Center
• The UMass Chan Medical School Fund
• United Way of Central Massachusetts

UMass Chan Medical School faculty, students and employees have contributed nearly $1 million to a wide range of causes and organizations they care about. Through the employee volunteer initiative, more than 600 UMass Chan staff members have spent nearly 7,000 hours volunteering at 100-plus nonprofit organizations.

Pernet Family Health Services

December 17 - 9AM to noon

Location - 237 Millbury St, Worcester, MA

Assistance is needed in sorting toys and gifts for distribution for the holidays.

Because this event takes place during working hours, volunteer PTO is available.

Register and Obtain Supervisor Approval.

By Pat Sargent

The road to a Doctor of Medicine degree runs through a nonprofit, community bike shop in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester for two T.H. Chan School of Medicine students engaged in community building, transportation equity and public health. 

At Worcester Earn-A-Bike at the Village Afrocentric Cultural Center, people of all ages who help keep it running are rewarded with a free bike. Second-year medical students Hoang Vo and Diego Marroquin are volunteering at the shop and fulfilling the component of their medical school curriculum that is geared toward making an impact on the local community, the health care system and the global population. 

“Being from the city, I knew choosing this pathway project was a great way to give back to my community. It’s hands-on, it can be fun and it makes an impact in Worcester,” said Vo, a Worcester Technical High School and Worcester State University graduate.  

Marroquin, who was born in Guatemala and moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts as a teen, is a UMass Dartmouth grad enrolled in the Accelerated MD Program at the T.H. Chan School of Medicine.  

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