The Cornell Emergency CARE Fund seeks volunteers to help raise funds so that it can continue to offer financial assistance to staff and faculty who have experienced a nonrecurring, sudden or emergency-related financial hardship due to an unforeseen or unavoidable event.

More than $11,500 already has been distributed this year to employees who have had qualifying emergency situations.

The CARE fund is an employee-run program financed solely through contributions from faculty and staff. Because the fund cannot be sustained without additional donations, the Emergency CARE Fund Committee is launching a campaign to solicit donations from faculty and staff, and is seeking volunteers to help.

For more information about this effort, call 255-3703 or visit the CARE Fund website.