Robert Morris University's Society for Collegiate Journalists
Balancing Out Hunger Project
What is Balancing Out Hunger?
DID YOU KNOW?
In the Greater Pittsburgh Area, 323,820 people face food insecurity each day.
At the end of each semester, students at RMU are able to take leftover funds on their meal plans and donate that money to the Food Bank. When the collection period ends, one of RMU's chefs buys food ranging from beef to soup. Volunteers from the Food Bank then come to campus, pick up the items, and take them back to their facilities to give to those in need.
In fall 2013, SCJ hosted the first-ever Give and Get Balancing Out Hunger kickoff event, which launched the start of the donation period on RMU's campus and featured raffles, live music, and light refreshments. More than $1,000 was raised that night alone for the fall 2013 semester campaign.
ABOUT GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that collects and distributes food through a 380+ member network in 11 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. Through food solicitation, fund raising, special events, and community partnerships, the Food Bank gathers food at our 94,000 square foot warehouse in Duquesne, PA. Through outlets such as soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, after school programs, senior high rises, MH-MR drop-in centers, neighborhood food assistance agencies, emergency or disaster-related feeding sites, regional food banks, Meals on Wheels, community centers, and special programs, the Food Bank currently distributes around 27 million pounds of food per year. Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is a member of Feeding America.
Phone: (412) 460-3663
Address: 1 North Linden Street, Duquesne, Pa. 15110
Website: pittsburghfoodbank.org
ABOUT RMU’S SOCIETY FOR COLLEGIATE JOURNALISTS
The Society for Collegiate Journalists is an American honor society for student journalists. It was formed on June 1, 1975, as a merger between the two journalism honor societies Pi Delta Epsilon and Alpha Phi Gamma. In 2006, several RMU students founded a chapter at RMU to promote service and the importance of the first amendment rights.
Email: rmu.scj@gmail.com
Address: 6001 University Blvd. Moon Township, PA 15108
ABOUT ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY
Originally founded in 1921, RMU offers 60 undergraduate degree programs and 20 graduate degree programs in five academic schools. Approximately 5,200 undergraduate and graduate students from 42 states and 32 nations are enrolled at RMU.
Phone: (412) 397-3000
Address: 6001 University Blvd. Moon Township, PA 15108
Website: rmu.edu
Robert Morris University's Chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists' Balancing Out Hunger project is a bi-annual fundraising event held to raise money and bring awareness to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. RMU alum Ryan Shaffer began the project in 2010, and SCJ has continued on raising funds for the Food Bank ever since, allowing the Food Bank to purchase over 1,000 meals!