On Tuesday, Sept. 24 UMD students gathered at the Memorial Chapel to help package food for “Feed the Families.” Kimi Fleming reports. Continue reading UMD students gather to ‘Feed the Families’ of the D.C. Metro area
By Ambriah Underwood University of Maryland student-led organizations and community members engaged in a collaborative relief effort on March 11 to package meals for those living without food security. Terps Against Hunger, a student organization fighting hunger in the Washington, D.C., metro area, and this university’s Senior Class Council hosted the four-hour event with about 600 volunteers to prepare meal packages that could feed up … Continue reading Terps Against Hunger partners with UMD Seniors for service event
By Madison Brewer Students, faculty and staff at the University of Maryland experience food insecurity every day. Even with dining services on campus, some community members still to get enough food. That’s how the University of Maryland Campus Food Pantry was started: people saw the need for easily attainable and nutritious food items. The UMD Campus Food Pantry has been around since 2014 and … Continue reading The UMD Campus Food Pantry works to feed those in need
The University of Maryland made history last Thursday by becoming the first Do Good Campus through its implementation of a $75 million Do Good Initiative. The initiative, which is comprised of university resources, state funding, corporate and foundation grants, and individual donations, has allowed the university to create the Do Good Institute, the Do Good Accelerator and expand on the existing Do Good Challenge. “We’re … Continue reading Maryland invests $75 million in the Do Good initiative
Terps Against Hunger, an organization that has grown substantially over the last three years, put together a meal packing event for the less fortunate in the Metro D.C. area Tuesday in the Memorial Chapel. “This is a smaller event, we don’t have smaller events too often,” said Josh Turskey, a junior architecture major. “But our larger scale events…we count large scale anything over 100 thousand, we’ll … Continue reading Terps Against Hunger prepares meals for the needy in Memorial Chapel
