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Lawmakers probe hunger-free campus grants, statutory caps and distribution efficiency
Summary
OHE described campus food-pantry grants and partnerships with food banks; committee members questioned statutory caps, private-institution limits and whether routing funds through food banks would be more efficient.
Committee members pressed the Minnesota Office of Higher Education about how hunger-free campus grants operate, statutory award caps and whether campus-based pantries or regional food-bank distribution is the more efficient model.
Megan Fitzgibbon told the committee that hunger-free campus grants support on-campus pantry operations, outreach and, in some rounds, one-time equipment purchases. "Many many of the campuses including ones that get hunger free campus grants do have partnerships with food shelves and food banks to either provide access to students for food pantries that are close by campus or actually on campuses and also to source…
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