2018 President's Engagement Prize Announced

2018 President's Engagement Prize Announced

Griffin Amdur, James McPhail, and Andrew Witherspoon for Chicago Furniture Bank: McPhail, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and Wharton School, and Wharton seniors Amdur and Witherspoon will launch a nonprofit furniture bank in Chicago. Working with Caring Transitions, a national senior relocation, downsizing, and estate sales company, Amdur, McPhail, and Witherspoon will collect gently used furniture from the elderly and give those donations to vulnerable populations, including women and children facing domestic violence, recovering addicts and the formerly homeless. Their project will be the first furniture bank in the Chicago metropolitan area. Amdur, McPhail, and Witherspoon are being mentored by Tyler Wry, assistant professor of Management.