COLSA Food Drive Challenge Delivers

In response to increased food insecurity in New Hampshire due to COVID-19, COLSA organized its first ever interdepartmental food drive challenge during the first three weeks of November.

COLSA students, faculty and staff donated the equivalent of 12,685.25 meals. That translated into 3,167 pounds of food, including squash from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, which was donated to the Waysmeet Center and the St. Thomas More Catholic Church food pantries, as well as $5,155 raised for the New Hampshire Food Bank.

“As a college that seeks to advance the sustainability of communities and ecosystems, we study and inform healthy production of food and the nutritional needs of those across New Hampshire,” says Dean Anthony S. Davis. “It is important to us in COLSA that we find a way to support those in the state who are unsure of where their next meal comes from. I’m truly inspired by the giving nature of our college community and look forward to growing the impact next year!”

The department of natural resources and the environment, which collected food and money donations that were the equivalent of 4,931 meals, triumphed over the other college departments to win the competition and earn the coveted golden gourd.