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More Than Just Food: A Shared Agenda for Student Food Security and Success
Student hunger is not inevitable. This joint brief from The Hope Center, Trellis Strategies, and Swipe Out Hunger examines the realities of college student food insecurity—and what higher education can do to address it.
Help us bring these findings to the people who can put them into action. This toolkit includes ready-to-share social media posts to raise awareness, spark conversation, and encourage institutions to strengthen student supports. Use the captions as written or adapt them for your audience, and please tag all three partner organizations wherever they have accounts.
Together, we can build a higher education system with and for students—one where meeting their basic needs is a promise they can count on.
Accounts to Tag:
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Twitter/X: @hope4college
Instagram: @hope4college
LinkedIn: @The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs
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LinkedIn: @Trellis Strategies
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Instagram: @swipeouthunger
LinkedIn: @Swipe Out Hunger
Post Option #1: Introducing the Report
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Student hunger is not inevitable. And it’s not just about food. A new brief from The Hope Center, Trellis Strategies, and Swipe Out Hunger connects food insecurity to college affordability and student success—and offers a path forward.
Read the brief: nccsen.org/food
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Students cannot thrive in college when they cannot afford to eat.
A new joint brief from The Hope Center, Trellis Strategies, and Swipe Out Hunger brings together student survey findings and campus food program data to examine college food insecurity—and what higher education can do about it.
The findings reveal widespread food insecurity, overlapping hardships, and gaps between students and the resources meant to support them. They also point toward solutions: coordinated, sustained investments that connect food security to the full cost of attending college.
Student hunger is not inevitable. Read the findings and recommendations: nccsen.org/food
Post Option #2: Barriers to Access
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Support for college hunger must be known, trusted, and accessible. A new brief from The Hope Center, Trellis Strategies, and Swipe Out Hunger examines what keeps college students disconnected from food assistance—and how to close those gaps.
Read: nccsen.org/food
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Support only works when it reaches those who need it.
Yet, too many college students experiencing hunger remain disconnected from support. Information gaps, stigma, and barriers to access can stand between students and the help they need. Making resources available is only the beginning. Students need to know about them, trust them, and be able to use them.
A new brief from The Hope Center, Trellis Strategies, and Swipe Out Hunger examines what’s driving this support gap—and how institutions can close it.
Read the full brief: nccsen.org/food
Post Option #3: Solutions
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Isolated interventions won't solve college food insecurity. A new brief from the Hope Center, Trellis Strategies, and Swipe Out Hunger provides recommendations to connect food assistance with broader supports that help students afford basic needs.
Read: nccsen.org/food
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Student hunger is not inevitable. Our response should match the scale of the problem.
Campus food programs are essential. Their impact grows when institutions connect them with financial aid, public benefits, housing, and other basic needs supports—and invest in the people and partnerships that make those connections work.
A new brief from The Hope Center, Trellis Strategies, and Swipe Out Hunger offers four recommendations to build and sustain this coordinated response.
Every student deserves to focus on their education without wondering where their next meal will come from.
Explore the recommendations: nccsen.org/food