{"id":14381,"date":"2014-09-29T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/?p=14381"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:46:15","slug":"roosevelt-park-collects-tabs-ronald-mcdonald-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/roosevelt-park-collects-tabs-ronald-mcdonald-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Roosevelt Park Collects Tabs for Ronald McDonald House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ross-Medical-Education-Roosevelt-Park-Ronald-McDonald1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ross-Medical-Education-Roosevelt-Park-Ronald-McDonald1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ross-Medical-Education-Roosevelt-Park-Ronald-McDonald\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14383\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross Medical Education Center<\/a> campus in <a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/campus\/mi\/roosevelt-park.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roosevelt Park<\/a> was able to donate over 1,000 pop tabs to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmhwesternmichigan.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronald McDonald House of Western Michigan<\/a> in Grand Rapids, MI. It was the first time that the campus had collected the pop tabs, but it definitely won\u2019t be the last! The staff hung up fliers around the campus, letting students know what was being collected and how they could help, and the drive really took off. The campus had a box they wanted to fill, so they placed buckets in the break rooms and continuously emptied them into their box. With students bringing in tabs by the bag full, it didn\u2019t take long for the campus to reach their goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Ronald McDonald House opened in 1990 in Grand Rapids, MI. Their mission, according to their website, is \u201cto provide a &#8220;Home Away From Home&#8221; for families of children and youth seeking medical treatment in our community.&#8221; In 2013, Muskegon, home of the Roosevelt Park campus, was the highest ranking county for family referrals. According to their website, their mission is &#8220;to provide a &#8216;home away from home&#8217; for families of children and youth seeking medical or mental health treatment in our community.\u201d In Muskegon alone, 58 families found that \u201chome away from home\u201d in 2013 thanks to the Ronald McDonald House of Western Michigan. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmhwesternmichigan.org\/house-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.rmhwesternmichigan.org\/house-facts<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Ronald McDonald Houses collect pop tabs instead of entire aluminum cans because it&#8217;s more hygienic to store tabs than cans, and collection and storage is easier. The program is an easy way for people of all ages to support their area Ronald McDonald House. After the tabs are collected, Ronald McDonald House Chapter brings the collection to local recycling centers, where they are weighed to determine their value (values can vary significantly). The recycling center then sends the local Ronald McDonald House a check for the total value. Because the pop tab recycling translates directly into funds, those that donate are able to know they are making a real difference for local families and children. \u201cIt\u2019s a really easy way to help. We just informed students, put buckets in the break rooms, and the students really did the rest,\u201d said Kristen Reasoner, Office Assistant at the Roosevelt Park campus. \u201cEveryone drinks soda, and all the students have to do is pop that tab off to help a family in crisis.\u201d\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ross Medical Education Center campus in Roosevelt Park was able to donate over 1,000 pop tabs to the Ronald&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/roosevelt-park-collects-tabs-ronald-mcdonald-house\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}