UB employees are urged to donate school supplies in a university-wide drive to benefit pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students at several Buffalo schools.

Donated items, including paper, pencils, rulers, planners, markers and folders, will be distributed to the Futures Academy, Aloma D. Johnson Fruit Belt School, Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute, Highgate Heights Elementary and Westminster Community Charter School.

Items may be dropped off at locations on the UB North, South and Downtown campus:

North Campus:

• Baird Hall: Music Library, 112 Baird
• Capen Hall: Office of the President, 501 Capen, and University Libraries, 433 Capen
• Center for the Arts: lobby
• Center for Tomorrow: lobby
• Crofts Hall, first-floor lobby
• Ellicott Complex: Office of Parking and Transportation Services, 106 Spaulding Quad
• HRD Building
• Lockwood Library
• Norton Hall, Office of Student Support Services, 215 Norton
• Park Hall: College of Arts and Sciences’ Student Advisement and Services, 275 Park
• Student Union, Center for Student Leadership and Community Engagement, 235 Student Union
• Talbert Hall: admissions office, 220 Talbert

South Campus:

• Abbott Hall, Health Sciences Library;
• Allen Hall, Office of Community Relations
• Diefendorf Hall, School of Architecture and Planning, 114 Diefendorf
• Michael Hall, clinic lobby
• Squire Hall, lobby

Downtown Campus:

• Downtown Gateway, 77 Goodell St., Suite 201, offices of Community Relations, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Educational Collaboration and Engagement
  
• Educational Opportunity Center, 555 Ellicott St., second floor
  
• New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, 701 Ellicott St., first-floor lobby
  

Donations will be accepted through Aug. 30.

“This is another great example of the university giving back to the community. This university-wide drive will hopefully provide the youth at our neighboring elementary schools the tools they need to have a successful school year,” says Michael J. Pietkiewicz, assistant vice president for government and community relations.

For more information about the drive contact the Office of Community Relations at 829-3099.