Wildcat Pantry 2024-2025 Pilot Goal 3: Elevate the holistic well-being of our students.
in addition we thanked generous donors who helped fund this dream. In June, we received a donated freezer and had the grant funding to purchase another fridge. With these donations and purchases, we are set to enter the next academic year with increased capacity of having a back stock area with 2 fridges and freezers. Hosting major events such as Pack the Pantry during January yielded many donations, monetary and physical. As well, Donors continued showing the Pantry an enormous amount of support, by exceeding our fundraising goal for our project ‘Never Study Hungry’ during #Give Central which focused on raising funds to stock our Grab and Go ‘Satellite’ pantry locations across campus. As time allowed, the Wildcat Pantry also put on a multitude of tabling events and programming throughout the academic year, bringing in holistic additives and increased diversity of offerings. The next academic year is focusing on continuing to bring in an increased diversity of goods, consistent stock and investing in educational/leadership opportunities for student employees. With a restructuring of processes within the pantry and the way we engage with campus partnerships, the pantry is continuing to stabilize and grow into the 2025-2026 year. Contributors :: Kaila Red Bow, Lauren Hinkley
Initiative 3.3: Support and expand access to basic needs, including establishing a resource coordinator dedicated to assisting students experiencing food and housing insecurity. In the 2024-2025 academic year, the Wildcat Pantry opened doors to its new space within Brooks Library. Students served since we started using Pantry soft at the start of this academic year: ˺ Fall 2024: 2,962 ˺ Winter 2025: 3,579 ˺ Spring 2025 (thus far): 3,349 ˺ Total= 9,890 visits Clients Registered within 2024-2025: ˺ 1,122 clients Donations: ˺ Over 7,000 pounds of food/hygiene items donated, worth $15,000 (with a conversion rate of 2.16/ lb.) The figures above represent the growth and use of the pantry. Close to 10,000 times a student walked through pantry doors to grab a snack or basic hygiene item. Utilizing PantrySoft Software, the pantry is able to track all items inventoried into our space and output as they leave with customers. The data we collect is utilized to inform our future purchases and track the ebb and flow of foot traffic across quarters. With increased use of our pantry during the winter months, the pantry focused on streamlining the process of ordering inventory for Spring quarter, so we could continue to serve students to the best of our ability. Increasing partnerships with Dining vendors, CWU Warehouse team, as well as CWU Shipping and Receiving for specialty items ordered and delivered was part of this streamlining process. In May, we received signage for our Pantry and held a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to celebrate the progression of the pantry from a student club into a true venture,
Health Promoting Campus: How You Influence the Culture at CWU Goal 3: Elevate the holistic well-being of our students.
This is an opportunity to update the campus on the framework, language, and collective responsibility to improve our campus culture/climate to be health-promoting. This will include consolidation of Okanagan Charter (health promoting university) adoption work and Culture of Respect campaign and ties into HR initiatives (employee wellbeing, recruiting diverse employees, retaining workers), faculty work (integration of classroom work and high impact practices outside of the classroom) and student success (common language around advancing holistic health using dimensions of wellbeing framework). Contributors :: Marissa Howat, Joy Stochosky, Vero Gomez Vilchis, Elvin Delgado, Kelly Flores
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