RSCC receives food pantry grant
Swipe Out Hunger, the leading national nonprofit working to end college student food insecurity, recently announced that $3,000 micro-grants will be distributed to 17 colleges to support their campus food pantries.
Roane State Community College is included on the list of recipients.
This is the first cycle of Swipe Out Hunger’s inaugural campus pantry micro-grant fund, which started as part of the organization acquiring the College and University Food Bank Alliance in October 2021. Seventeen partnering campus pantries were selected by lottery to receive funds to be used for their campus pantries.
At Roane State, the college’s three campus pantries will split the grant funds evenly and use those dollars to improve services and better aid RSCC students.
The Brain Food pantry at the Oak Ridge Branch Campus will purchase much needed shelving and tables, in addition to food items. The Cumberland County Pantry will use funds to purchase food, in addition to paying stipends to student workers.