UA4Food Sees Record-Breaking Results

UA4Food Sees Record-Breaking Results

By Alexis BlueUniversity Communications
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President Robert N. Shelton helps "Stuff the Cat Tran" at an inaugural food drive hosted by the Staff Advisory Council and Parking and Transportation Services this spring.
President Robert N. Shelton helps "Stuff the Cat Tran" at an inaugural food drive hosted by the Staff Advisory Council and Parking and Transportation Services this spring.

This year's UA4Food campaign raised a record-breaking amount of food and money for the Tucson Community Food Bank, pulling in more than twice the cash raised last year.

The annual campus giving campaign raised $62,825 and 27,054 pounds of food for the food bank, thanks in large part to $48,000 in gifts from the Marshall Foundation, the Tucson nonprofit organization that owns and manages most of the property at Main Gate, west of campus.

Last year, the campaign contributed $30,307 and 17,307 pounds of food.

"Times are really rough now economically and hundreds, if not thousands, of faculty, staff, students and community members have responded by reaching out to help others who are struggling to have enough to eat," said Holly Altman, director of outreach and community partnerships in The University of Arizona's Office of Community Relations, which coordinates the campaign. "What a testament to the generosity and compassion of our UA community."  

Contributions were made throughout the year through food drives, special events and online donations.

Some of the yearlong drive's biggest events were held during the spring, including the annual Faculty/Staff Food Drive, the Spring Fling food drive, the Run for Your Life 5K and the inaugural Stuff the Cat Tran food drive, in which campus community members filled a Cat Tran shuttle with 3,928 pounds of nonperishable food items for needy Tucson families.

"It has become a year-round food drive that we count on at the Community Food Bank," said Pauline Hechler, the food bank's vice president of development. "It's really an awesome partnership and it's a great example of the role that the U of A plays in the community and the impact it can have when so many facets of the University get together and work together for the good of the whole." 

Online donations can be made to UA4Food throughout the summer, and campaign events will resume during the fall semester. For more information about UA4Food and how to host your own food drive, visit the UA4Food Web site.

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