The University established The Arrupe Service and Social Justice Endowment, a permanent fund spearheaded by Mike ’99 and Susanna Puntel Short ’01, to support the Campus Ministries’ Center for Service and Social Justice (CSSJ). While alumni, parents and friends of the University raised more than $100,000 for the fund during 5.06 Weekend, the ultimate goal is to raise more than $500,000.
The fund will support the CSSJ by helping to defray the cost of domestic service trips and programs such as FIRST (First-years Involved in Reflective Service Together) and SPARK, a weeklong summer camp program for at-risk community students. This endowment will ensure affordable service opportunities rooted in the Jesuit tradition will forever be available to Scranton students.
If you would like to support this endowment, please contact Pat Vaccaro, director of the CSSJ, at patricia.vaccaro@ scranton.edu.
