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Fighting Hunger and Empowering Students The Wildcat Pantry is a free resource for CWU students to utilize that helps to remove barriers to essential needs, providing access to free food, clothing, hygiene, and household items. Starting with eight bookshelf locations, the pantries immediately saw daily use by students. The high traffic paired with results from the first-ever statewide postsecondary basic needs survey* showing 47.2% of Central students being food insecure, provided evidence there was a dire need for expansion of the Wildcat Pantry. With the support of donors, the community, and the university, the program has been able to expand and address food insecurity at Central by providing more students with the resources they need to ensure personal, academic, and professional success.
The pantry is super important for students who don’t make enough income and are unable to buy basic living necessities.” Student Shopper
$45,100 Amount raised for the Wildcat Pantry (formerly PUSH)
$95,623 Amount raised for basic needs
8,015 Total pantry visits for the 2023/2024 academic year 39,462 Pounds of food and essentials dispersed
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Once we found out how many students were hungry, we were really surprised. It’s the university’s mission to educate people, and it is hard to learn when you’re really hungry or have to work two jobs, so if we can alleviate a little bit of that, we are happy to do it.”
Ben (’79) and Nancy Remak
4,585 Pounds of food and essentials donated
Alumni Association by the numbers 111,207 Alumni making an impact around the world
*For more information on the survey, please visit wsac.wa.gov
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