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Today is the Last Day to Donate Meals
Save-a-Swipe is a partnership between Retriever Essentials, Chartwells, and Campus Card Services which allows you to donate 5 or 10 swipes from your meal plan that can be used by students who are...
Save a swipe for Retrievers in need!
The Deadline for Meal Donation is Feb 14th - Friday
Save-a-Swipe is a partnership between Retriever Essentials, Chartwells, and Campus Card Services which allows you to donate 5 or 10 swipes from your meal plan that can be used by students who are...
Our Student Ambassador reflects on her service work
Deaira Lloyd is a double major studying Anthropology and Sociology and will be receiving her Certificate in the Social Dimensions of Health. She is in the BA/MA program of Applied Sociology and...
Donate your excess meals
Save-a-Swipe is a partnership between Retriever Essentials, Chartwells, and Campus Card Services which allows you to donate 5 or 10 swipes from your meal plan that can be used by students who are...
Our Student Ambassador reflects on her service work
Amanda Nguyen is majoring in Psychology with a minor in Law and Justice. She has been serving on Retriever Essentials Student Leadership Board since September 2019. Retriever Essentials has...
RE is a program that shows unity, love, and gratitude - Dera
We were fortunate to have one of the most dedicated group of student volunteers, both Student Ambassadors and Direct-Service Volunteers, through the Shriver Center's PRAC 096 working with us in...
Kimani from Cristo Rey High School brought in her creative skills and helped design this bulletin board for Retriever Essentials. Please stop at Sherman 205 to check it out. The food pantry in...
SAAC donated over 3,500 food items
A huge thank you to the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for collecting over 3,500 non-perishable food items for Retriever Essentials (retrieveressentials.umbc.edu) at UMBC. What happens...
We at Retriever Essentials would like to express our heartiest gratitude to all our collaborators and guests who made UMBC’s first Home for the Holidays event a reality. The event offered a...
Yes we are open on thanksgiving
We are ready to celebrate thanksgiving with you all! Come to True Grits Dining Hall for food and fun activities.
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Celebrate Holidays with your UMBC family
12:00 PM
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True Grit's
Retriever Essentials and the collaborators would like to extend our warmest invitation to you at our first seasonal Home for the Holiday Lunch on Thursday, November 28th, 2019, 12p-2p in the True...
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Please remember Retriever Essentials while grocery shopping
The campus food pantry is in need of nonperishable food items. The following can be donated to our donation bins in the Admin Building (across the elevator), Library Atrium, and the Commons (near...
Thanks to our volunteers, Kimani from Cristo Rey High School, Alex, Josephine, and Zoe from PRAC 096, we now have new donation boxes installed! Look for our upgraded donation boxes at the Admin...
Rising college costs brings challenges for students
A new Temple University survey found that thousands of college students today can’t afford basic needs like food and housing, and some even end up homeless. Check out this feature from the NBC...
Come to the pantry and pack your OWN grocery bag!
Going home over the summer? Working a low-paying or unpaid internship and worried how you’ll pay for groceries? Just interested in a free bag of nonperishable food? Retriever Essentials has an...
Couldn't Afford Enough Food in 2018
Kyle Shokeye, Complex, May 1 2019 “In its most recent study, the Hope Center for College Community and Justice at Temple University polled 86,000 students from 123 colleges. The study found...
New study finds 36% of college students are housing insecure
"Colleges Are Looking For Ways to House and Feed Homeless Students" by Charlotte West. March 18, 2019 from Pacific Standard. "Widely reported research has shown surprising levels of hunger and...
a new government report finds
Retriever Essentials believes that often, the food insecurity UMBC students experience is the tip of the iceberg-- if the first sacrifice is textbooks before food, imagine the tough choices that...
Student's Reflection Upon a Semester of Service w/RE!
Amanda Nguyen is a junior studying Psychology. This semester she was enrolled in the 096 Community Service and Learning Practicum through the Shriver Center, and served with Retriever Essentials....
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