Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Food insecurity is a well known issue, with thousands of food banks and food resource networks across the US attempting to alleviate it; the problem is that most of them are closed during the last ten days of the year. So in 2019, Amanda Key, the Student Financial Resource Center (SFRC) coordinator, came up with […]
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The Student Financial Resource Center (SFRC) offers many different tools to help students succeed in life and in school. When you do not have enough money for food or good clothes but need a job and energy for school, it is hard. This can create a never-ending cycle of needing resources to get the resources […]
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Abi Brand, staff writer Over Thanksgiving break, PVCC’s Financial Resource Center sent students home with boxes filled to the top with food and special items for students and families in need. The center provided boxes for over 120 students and their families. Eight of these boxes went to veterans. Amanda Key, Student Financial Resource Center […]
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Ari Oxford, staff writer Food insecurity is an issue that many students face, so PVCC has tried to help alleviate this concern for PVCC students and their families. In M103, next to the Student Financial Resource Centre (SFRC), is the PVCC Panther Pantry. According to the PVCC website, the pantry’s mission is “The pursuit of […]
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