Putting the "Campus" in Campus Grocery: The Food Collective as a Full-Service Grocery in the Student Union

Project Basics

Project Sponsor: Berkeley Student Food Collective

Amount Awarded:$57,886

Grant Awarded: Spring 2022

Project Status: In Progress

Project Description

The Collective serves over ten thousand student patrons each year with affordable, healthy, sustainable and local foods from minority vendors and farmers — including over 150 weekly student member-volunteers each semester — out of a small space never intended for food service with a highly-limited but functional grocery selection. We're returning to the Green Initiative Fund — the single most significant funder in building the Collective's skill sets and capacity over the past 12 years — to support us in fulfilling the longtime student vision for a dedicated full-service student-run grocery store on or around campus by helping the Student Food Collective move into a dramatically larger space capable of offering full-service groceries in the Student Union or nearby.

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