FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 20, 2011

St. Patrick Center clients benefit from Cor Jesu-St. Joseph Funderwear Challenge

Cor Jesu Academy and St. Joseph Academy students teamed up once again to help St. Patrick Center clients in their 7th annual Funderwear Challenge on April 20, 2011 (at the CJA vs. SJA soccer game at SJA, relocated due to wet fields). What started years ago as a clothing drive, the Funderwear Challenge has grown into a friendly, charitable competition in which each school community donates pairs of new socks and underwear as the “price of admission” at a CJA vs. SJA game. All socks and underwear collected in the Funderwear Challenge are donated to St. Patrick Center’s homeless clients.

While Cor Jesu Academy brought in the most items this year and won the coveted Funderwear Challenge trophy, and while St. Joseph Academy won the soccer game, the real winner was St. Patrick Center. Thanks to the generosity of both schools, more than 17,000 pair of new socks and underwear were donated, saving the agency thousands of dollars in expenses that can instead go toward St. Patrick Center’s 28 housing, employment and mental health programs to assist clients with building permanent, positive change.

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MISSION:  
St. Patrick Center provides opportunities for self-sufficiency and dignity to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Individuals achieve permanent, positive changes in their lives through affordable housing, sound mental health, employment and financial stability.

FOR MORE INFO:
Kelly Peach
Director of Communications
St. Patrick Center
Direct Line 314.802.0687
Cell 314.581.7126
kpeach@stpatrickcenter.org

Stephanie Perry
Writer/Producer
St. Patrick Center
Direct Line 314.802.1968
Cell 314.853.8886
sperry@stpatrickcenter.org

www.stpatrickcenter.org