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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.

Student needs give rise to UNCC campus food pantry

Group of individuals standing in front of shelves of pantry items.
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Charlotte Observer

By Lisa Thornton - Charlotte Observer Correspondent

Food pantries are sprouting up on college campuses across the nation, part of an emerging trend that’s beginning to shed light on a subject with little data so far: hunger and food insecurity among the college crowd.

At UNC Charlotte, college officials launched the Niner Food Pantry in September. From 3 to 6 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays, students without university meal plans who live off-campus can make their way to Room 3135 in Colvard Building and select items from stocked shelves filled with donated nonperishable items, such as raisins, peanut butter and canned vegetables.

Food insecurity is hard to measure on college campuses, but most experts agree it exists to some degree.

A report last year from Feeding America, a national organization linked with 200 food pantries across the nation, estimated that college students make up 10 percent of their clients.

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