The first time you come to Tiger Pantry, you will need to complete the New Household Form. MU students, staff, and faculty, as well as MU Health Care workers, can receive non-perishable food and household items once a month. Each household can also receive eggs, produce, and bread each week.

We serve any student, faculty, or staff member of the University of Missouri including MU Health Care workers, without question or proof of income requirements. Individuals can come in monthly for non-perishable food and household items and weekly for produce, bread, and eggs based on availability.

Once a month for non-perishables, and every week for produce, eggs, and bread. We use an online database system, in collaboration with the Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri, where the individual provides their birthdate or last name each shift. This system checks to see if an individual has already been in the pantry that month.

The pantry started in 2012 in an effort to serve students, faculty, and staff at Mizzou that self-identify as food insecure.

We are located at 299 Hitt Street, Columbia, MO in the lower level of the Hitt Street Parking Structure off of Elm Street.

Tiger Pantry is a student-run program led by a Student Director and an Executive Board. We have a paid staff administration member that advises the students and oversee finances and operations.

We have an application-based volunteer process and selected student volunteers operate our pantry. During the academic year, we are open Sundays 12-2:00, and Tues/Wed 4:30-6:30pm. Hours change during holidays and academic breaks. We have at least 6-8 volunteers serve at each shift. Hours change for holidays and breaks, see our social media and our website banners for information.

We distribute anywhere from 3500 lbs. to 5000 lbs. in a month.

We receive food from both drives on campus and a significant portion from the Central Missouri Food Bank, which we are an auxiliary of. Many fundraisers and food drives are coordinated throughout the year in order to supply the pantry. We also receive monetary donations where we then go out and bulk purchase the food.

We are constantly fighting the stigma surrounding food insecurity on campus, so we provide educational tools to encourage people to start these conversations. Our services are confidential other than the initial sign up, and we actively work to protect that confidentiality. We market to the entire university in hopes that those who need the service will see it, and even those who don’t will be comfortable starting the conversation with someone who might.

We have a fundraising coordinator on our board who organizes on and off-campus food drives. We provide bins, pick up and drop off! Several organizations throughout campus use monetary donations or cans as admittance to an event which in return is donated to us. Reaching out to organizations and providing education to them about campus food insecurity, as well as attending their events as a pantry can really help strengthen relationships. We do numerous fundraisers throughout the summer, but getting involved in week-long events like homecoming is a great contributor. Many of our drives focus around one school/organization or maybe just a few. We place bins at their events encouraging participants to donate food.

We reflected our rules and regulations when starting off of the Full Circle Pantry at the University of Arkansas. We have an extensive amount of regulations when it comes to the confidentiality of clients, rules with handling expired food, what time of things we can distribute (i.e. no fresh meat or dairy).