Re-Stocking a Food Pantry at a Community College?

Abstract

For the past three decades, food pantries have been an intermittent presence on college campuses; however, in the past decade or so, they have become more present, funded by universities, local food banks, and the occasional grant. For many colleges, food pantries exist with very soft and intermittent funds, if they are funded at all. Some are set up with one-off funds and thereafter exist under an unfunded mandate. This work explores the state of food pantries at institutions of higher education and shares a real-world case of pursuing grant funding for a local college food pantry.