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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Agenda

Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Location: Science Building 319

  • Approval of Minutes of August 25, 2017 Meeting

  • Approval of Pantry hours for Fall, 2017

    Monday, 5-6 PM (Elizabeth Di Giorgio)
    Tuesday, 12.30-1.30 PM (Sharon Ellerton)
    Wednesday, 5-6 PM (Emily Tai)
    Thursday, 2-5 PM (John Gilleaudeau and Peter Bales)
    Friday, 1-2 PM (Chukwudi Ikwueze)

  • FEC proposal regarding Food Collection at Faculty meeting of October 25, 2017(Philip Pecorino, FEC Chair, Guest)

  • Distribution of paragraph from Mr. Jonathan Chin (attached)

  • Old Business

  • New Business

Statement from Share Meals:

Share Meals and NYU will be hosting Love through Food on the evening of November 16th. This will bea community meal packing event where volunteers will help assemble individual portions of dry food such as rice and beans or macaroniand cheese. These are nutritionally balanced by Iowa State University's Food Science department and are shelf stable for a long time. Our minimum goal is to package 10,000 meals at the unit price of $0.30 each. Share Meals appreciates the larger community we live in, especially the work being done at QCC to help end food insecurity, so we would love to open this up to your students and faculty.

Whatever amount QCC is able to fundraise, we will end a proportional number of meals to your food pantry. For example, if you raise $500, we will provide about 1,666 meals as a one time delivery after November 16th. Personal donations can be made directly to our partnering organization, The Outreach Program, which is a registered 501c3 and will be tax deductible. They prefer personal checks since that will keep the transactional fees down. You can read more about them on their website.

Faculty who wish to involve students from their club in the Love through Food event on November 16 should contact Emily S. Tai at [email protected]

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