Title

Hunger Free Campus

Sections

Helping to address food insecurity on campus.

The Hunger Free Campus grant program was established to address food insecurity at private, non-profit postsecondary institutions and tribal colleges in Minnesota. The law governing the grant program is located in Minnesota Session Laws 2025 1st Special Session Ch 5, Art 1, Subd. 25 which appropriates up to $200,000 to OHE to award grants to nonprofit private postsecondary institutions and Tribal colleges. 

HFC funds must be used for eligible expenses that support, fulfill, or sustain the following Hunger Free Campus requirements: 

  • Maintain an on-campus food pantry or partnership with a local food bank to provide regular, on-campus food distributions
  • Provide information to students on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), and other programs that reduce food insecurity
  • Notify students in work-study employment of their potential eligibility for SNAP benefits and provide information to those students about eligibility criteria and how to apply for benefits
  • Hold or participate in one hunger awareness event per academic year
  • Provide emergency assistance grants to students
  • Establish a hunger task force that meets a minimum of three times per academic year and that includes at least two students currently enrolled at the institution

Please Note: There is a 50% match requirement, in-kind or monetary.

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