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Spring 2025 Food Pantry Shopping Appointments

The Jamil Niner Student Pantry reopens for the Spring 2025 semester the week of January 13th. The Jamil Niner Student Pantry will be open for shopping on Tuesdays and Thursdays only during the Spring 2025 semester!

The pantry's online form for student shoppers opens every Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m. Shopping appointments can be scheduled between 11:00 - 4:30 p.m. Students may only shop once per week. Repeated no-shows to appointments will receive notification from our office and may lose eligibility for the remainder of the semester. Appointments are limited and we want to ensure that students are committing to their scheduled appointment date/time. 

Questions regarding scheduling? Email ninerpantry@charlotte.edu

Starting July 1, 2024, the Jamil Niner Student Pantry is now managed by Student Assistance and Support Services (SASS). Please direct all questions regarding shopping, volunteering, donating, and partnerships to SASS. We can be reached at ninerpantry@charlotte.edu or (704) 687-0289.

Swipe Out Hunger Program

National Swipe Out Hunger Program

Swipe Out Hunger is a nationwide program that partners with colleges to help put an end to student hunger and assist those who struggle with food insecurity. 

Swipe Out Hunger volunteers

Swipe Out Hunger Program at UNC Charlotte

The Swipe Out Hunger Program aims to provide students who are food insecure, and/or who are experiencing an emergency situation, access to healthy and well-balanced meals in our campus dining halls. To be eligible, students must be currently enrolled at UNC Charlotte.

If you meet this initial requirement and would like to complete a needs-based assessment to determine your further eligibility for the program, please email Student Assistance and Support Services (studentsupport@charlotte.edu) directly with your inquiry. Your email should include specific information regarding why you are in need of this particular service. Please review additional information on UNC Charlotte's Swipe Out Hunger before submitting an email inquiry. 

Donate Meal Swipes

Students can donate up to two swipes from their meal plan per semester. Swipes can be donated during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, from November 17 to November 22, 2024, via the Niner Diners Mobile Ordering app. In the app, select Swipe Out Hunger in the Seasonal Specials section, then click Swipe Donation and check out. Only one swipe may be donated per transaction so please consider donating two swipes through two separate transactions.

If you have a block plan, you can check your meal plan balance online. If you have The Daily Plan, you will need to wait at least 15 minutes before or after your last meal has been used.

Donated meals during Fall 2024 will be provided to students in need during the Spring 2025 semester.

Visit our tables in the Student Union and SoVi during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week for questions, to learn how to volunteer at the pantry, or to donate to the pantry. 

Swipe Out Hunger table with volunteers at the Union

Want to Volunteer?

UNC Charlotte's Swipe Out Hunger meal collections happen for one week in April and in November. If you are interested in volunteering at one of our Swipe Out Hunger tables to collect meal swipes and educate your peers on college food insecurity, please email studentsupport@charlotte.edu.

Swipe Out Hunger volunteers

Learn more about Swipe Out Hunger National Program