Full Circle Food Pantry Wants Your Help
Students celebrating the Full Circle Food Pantry's 10th Birthday!
The Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry turned 10 on Feb. 7, 2021, and the celebration isn't over yet. They need your help making their 10th birthday the best one yet. As part of the celebrations, the pantry is creative a campus-wide cookbook, and they are still accepting submissions. Could you help out by submitting a favorite recipe, family tradition or just something you'd like to share? We will be printing these cookbooks in the fall semester as a way to forever remember the first 10 years of amazing service the Full Circle Food Pantry has accomplished.
As we look back on our decade of service, our team has been looking back at data to quantify some of the impact Full Circle has made on the campus community. Since the 2014 launch of GivePulse, a service tracking system managed through the Center for Community Engagement, Full Circle has engaged 838 volunteers, amassing 15,500 total service hours! Since implementing more robust data tracking in October of 2017, the various programs of the pantry have served 29,129 members of our U of A and UAMS-NW community.
The first week Full Circle opened, they served 12 community members. Now Full Circle is serving upwards of 800 community members per month! The pantry has grown to having a garden, composting, partnering with local organizations, creating accessible cooking classes and, most recently, a locker system to increase opportunities for community members in need to receive assistance!
Whether you are a faculty, staff, student, supporter, etc, you can be featured in the 10th anniversary Full Circle Food Pantry Cookbook. Head to this link to submit a recipe and stay tuned for how to get a copy of your own.
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Contacts
Sage McCoy, food programs coordinator
Center for Community Engagement
479-575-5002,
lsmccoy@uark.edu
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