Members of the Arkansas Tech University community are invited to help a group of faculty and students win a $5,000 grant from The Campus Kitchens Project and CoBank that would provide resources for the food insecure on campus and in the surrounding area.
Arkansas Tech students from the Because We Can registered student organization, with support from Department of Behavioral Sciences faculty members Dr. Sean Huss and Dr. James Stobaugh as well as Office of University Relations staff member Ryan Taylor, produced a video to enter the grant competition.
As a result of that video and supporting materials produced by Because We Can, Arkansas Tech is one of three finalist institutions in the running for the $5,000 grant.
The winner will be selected through online voting, which opened on Monday, Nov. 2, and will continue through 11 a.m. Central Standard Time on Monday, Nov. 9.
If Arkansas Tech receives the grant, it will assist Because We Can in its ongoing effort to establish a food pantry and food recovery program to benefit the food insecure on campus and in the Arkansas River Valley.
According to information from Feeding America provided by The Campus Kitchens Project, there are 584,270 individuals in Arkansas who are food insecure. Included in that number are 15,000 individuals in Pope and Yell counties.
Food insecure is defined as “lacking reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.”
