Each year, UC Santa Cruz participates in Second Harvest Food Bank’s Holiday Food and Fund Drive (HFFD). The HFFD is special because 100% of your donations go directly to purchasing food for those who need it! Here’s how you can give:
- Students can donate here until Thursday, December 12, 2024. There are just 10 days left to pass on your extra Slug Points, Banana Bucks, and Flexi Dollars!
- Staff and Faculty (and anyone else) can donate here until Wednesday, January 15, 2025. So, you can donate in both this tax year and the next tax year during this same HFFD.
- $1 can feed one person for 1 day?
- Second Harvest Food Bank (SHFB) contributes directly to UCSC students on campus and UCSC employees in the community?
- SHFB also helps us with our campus research?
Each year, we emphasize the same campaign theme: Give What You Get. If you’re able, we encourage you to give enough money so someone else gets to eat healthy food all year!
Since the Second Harvest Food Bank can supply three healthy meals for $1, that makes it more possible for many of us to buy a whole year’s worth of healthy meals for a:
- Single-person household: $365
- Two-person household: $730
- Three-person household: $1,095
- Four-person household: $1,460
- BONUS: Count your pets in your calculation! :^)
This year, will you Give What You Get?
As always, if you or someone you know is in a position to receive food assistance, please start on this web page. In the same way that food goes through seasons, each of us also go through different seasons of giving and receiving. Be sure to fully participate in whatever season you’re in now.
Remember to review our What’s New? web page throughout the campaign for updates. Also, if you’d like to set up a group page within the unified UCSC team, please reach out to Jessica Bulleri (jbulleri@ucsc.edu) and she can create one for you.
Thank you for feeding hope,
The Holiday Food & Fund Drive Team
