{"id":72454,"date":"2023-05-10T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=72454"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:10:56","slug":"food-pantry-now-part-of-university-wellbeing-initiative","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2023\/food-pantry-now-part-of-university-wellbeing-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Pantry Now Part of University Wellbeing Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Student services<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFood Pantry Now Part of University Wellbeing Initiative\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">May 10, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/authors\/finn-gardiner\/\">Finn Gardiner<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-65954 size-medium\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1-992x662.jpg 992w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/files\/2023\/08\/IMG_5522-2-1024x683-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>(l-r) BU Wheelock&#8217;s Ellen Faszewski, Stephanie Clendenin, Annie Thomas, Kim Cahill, and Liz Vassallo in the BU Food Pantry, which got its start at BU Wheelock as the Community Cares Food and Essentials Pantry.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/stephanie-clendenin\/\">Stephanie Clendenin<\/a> and several of her colleagues on the BU Wheelock Student Services team noticed that some students were struggling to afford food on their limited budgets. So they submitted a mini-proposal to BU\u2019s Wellbeing Project and soon received funding to start the Community Cares Food &amp; Essentials Pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing worse than being hungry when you\u2019re surrounded by plenty,\u201d says Clendenin, director of graduate and online student services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Run entirely by BU Wheelock Student Services staff and student employees, Community Cares grew to serve roughly 40 people each week and became an important part of the University\u2019s response to food insecurity among students. In 2023, its management was transferred to the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/studentwellbeing\/\">Student Wellbeing<\/a>, where it will continue to be a key part of a centralized approach to providing food, hygiene products, and other resources to students in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now known as the BU Food Pantry, this important resource is supported in part by a new grant from the Commonwealth Fund, which was awarded to address food insecurity and also educate students about nutrition. \u201cIt\u2019s been really rewarding to get other students inspired and motivated to take up this work,\u201d says Clendenin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Learn more about the BU Food Pantry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/bu-launches-new-initiative-aimed-at-fighting-student-hunger\/\">BU Launches New Initiative Aimed at Fighting Student Hunger<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Stephanie Clendenin and several of her colleagues on the BU Wheelock Student Services team noticed that some students were struggling to afford food on their limited budgets. So they submitted a mini-proposal to BU\u2019s Wellbeing Project and soon received funding to start the Community Cares Food &amp; Essentials Pantry. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing worse than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9274,"featured_media":72455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"Student services","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[],"bu-publication":[6614],"magazine-article-category":[],"magazine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[6647,6782,6785],"news-topic":[6791],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/72454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/72454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72457,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/72454\/revisions\/72457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-article-category?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=72454"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=72454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}