Student Parent Association for Recruitment and Retention (SPARR) Food Donations Program

Project Basics

Project Sponsor: Student Parent Association for Recruitment and Retention

Awarded: $11,691.20

Grant Awarded: Spring 2016

Project Status: Complete

Project Description 

This project aims to combat food insecurity while promoting a zero waste policy, by implementing, via SPARR, a Food Donations program that delivers donated food items to student parents 4 times weekly at the UC Village. Since 2012, this program has revealed the astonishing amount of families struggling with food insecurity, as well as the emotional, psychological, and academic impacts this issue creates.

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