Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 74.81
Liaison Kelli O'Day
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of California, Davis
IN-14: Food Bank

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Kelli O'Day
Assessment Program Manager
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution host a food bank, pantry, or equivalent resource focused on alleviating food insecurity, hunger and poverty among students?:
Yes

A brief description of the food bank, pantry, or equivalent resource:

The Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center orders food from the Yolo Food Bank at $.19/lb. Our food and essentials pantry operates out of the Aggie Compass lobby space. We are open Monday-Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm. We provide basic shelf stable items such as rice, beans, canned vegetables and pasta. We also have a variety of essentials to choose from like, deodorant razors, toothpaste and menstrual products.
The Pantry: https://thepantry.ucdavis.edu/

Our Fruit and Veggie Up! Program provides local produce and other items (bread, yoghurt etc.) during a distribution twice per week on Mondays and Fridays from 11:00-1:00pm during winter quarter. This program operates out of the Aggie Compass lobby space.
Fruit and Veggie Up!: https://aggiecompass.ucdavis.edu/news/fruit-and-veggie-up


Website URL where information about the food bank is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Our student-fee funded sustainability grant program, The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF), has granted funds to two projects designed to help alleviate food insecurity at UC Davis. TGIF granted funds to help repair an electric vehicle used by the campus chapter of the Food Recovery Network so that more food could be rescued. TGIF also granted funds to start the Freedge project, of which there are currently two Freedge refrigerators on campus, helping people share food, reduce food waste, and reduce food insecurity (https://foodwastecollaborative.ucdavis.edu/project/freedge).
TGIF: https://tgif.ucdavis.edu/


Our student-fee funded sustainability grant program, The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF), has granted funds to two projects designed to help alleviate food insecurity at UC Davis. TGIF granted funds to help repair an electric vehicle used by the campus chapter of the Food Recovery Network so that more food could be rescued. TGIF also granted funds to start the Freedge project, of which there are currently two Freedge refrigerators on campus, helping people share food, reduce food waste, and reduce food insecurity (https://foodwastecollaborative.ucdavis.edu/project/freedge).
TGIF: https://tgif.ucdavis.edu/

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