The research team will survey and interview organizers of campus-based food pantries to understand how the pantries operate and their impact. Specifically, the team aims to understand how many students are served, operating procedures, popular items, and other needs of students. Surveys will collect information on advertising methods, popular times/days, foods, financial aid access, and willingness to distribute additional surveys. Phone interviews may follow up for more details. The goal is to inform best practices for a new food pantry at UW-Madison and understand the overall impact of campus food pantries.

1. Overview of National College Food Pantries
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Clare Cady
Minhtuyen Mai
Derek Field
Brooke Evans
Alison Bowman
Jed Richardson
The purposes of this research are to develop a better understand of how campus-based food
pantries work, who they serve, and how they serve. Sara would like to see this a working paper
available on the HOPE Lab website in the summer. Ultimately, we want to know the best
practices of running a food pantry, since UW-Madison’s student government is going to open
one in July 2015. Secondly, we want to know what is the impact of these campus food
pantries? To find these answers, the research team will do online surveys and phone interviews
with organizers of campus-based food pantries. The contact for these food pantries will be
made through the College University Food Bank Alliance.
The objectives are to survey campus food pantries (and possibly food banks) to possibly find
out the following info (and anything else you think would be useful):
— How many students do they serve per week on average
— How do they advertise?
— What times of day or days of week are most popular?
— What foods are most popular? Which are hardest to find?
— Do students using pantries seem to have already used financial aid to the extent
possible? What evidence is there of this?
— What other needs do students using pantries have? How are these met/ not met?
— Also would the pantry be willing to distribute a survey to its members if the HOPE Lab
created one? We’d like to learn more about users of on-campus pantries.
More description of the project:
Food insecurity is the inability to obtain nutritional food at any given time. Food insecurity is
coming a social problem among these college students. The College University Food Alliance is
a professional organization consisting of campus-based programs focused on alleviating food
insecurity, hunger, and poverty among college and university students in the United States
(CUFBA website). According to the CUFBA website, “food insecurity has increasingly become
an issue on college and university campuses (Hughes et. al., 2011), and can pose a significant
barrier to graduation.” CUFBA is partners with over 127 post-secondary institutions. This report
seeks to examine how these food pantries and these food banks serve the college student
populations.

2. Timeline:
March
Minh will work on IRB at UW-Madison
Wait for IRB approval and do revisions
After approval, Clare will help us establish contact with food pantries associated
with CUFBA. The list will also include colleges that not yet in CUFBA.
Clare has a list and contacts of everyone in CUFBA- she can help us initiate the
calls and send the surveys out
April
Start calling folks- Derek and Brooke will call and email food pantries associated
with CUFBA.
May-June
Sara will help us do analysis based on collected data
July
Do analysis, write reports etc. The team meets for a Google Hangout with Clare
and Sara?
The researchers (Brooke, Derek, Minh, and Clare- if needed) will call food pantries on campus
to better understand how they operate.
Here are the draft of the research questions and protocol:
Overview of National College Campus Food Banks
Description Thank you for participating in our survey. The Wisconsin HOPE aims to study barriers to college
success, such as food insecurity. Food insecurity is not having access to nutritious food.Many college and
university campuses have food pantries to address food insecurity among students. The food pantries that
you are in Your input will be valuable in helping us understand how food pantries can serve students
effectively.
1 What is your first and last name?
2 What college/university campus do you serve?
3 How many students do you serve per week on average?
m​ ​0-25 (1)

3. m​ ​26-50 (2)
m​ ​51-75 (3)
m​ ​76-100 (4)
m​ ​>100 (5)
4 What days of the week are most popular? (select the three days with highest user traffic)
q​ ​Monday (1)
q​ ​Tuesday (2)
q​ ​Wednesday (3)
q​ ​Thursday (4)
q​ ​Friday (5)
q​ ​Saturday (6)
q​ ​Sunday (7)
5 What times of day are most popular?
m​ ​Mornings (opening time through noon) (1)
m​ ​Afternoons (noon through 6pm) (2)
m​ ​Evenings (6pm through closing time) (3)
6 Do you notice differences in use of services, due to change of seasons? If so, please explain.
7 How do you advertise? (Check all that apply)
q​ ​Print Media: Flyers, Bulletin Board, Newspaper (1)
q​ ​Online Media: Online Newspaper (2)
q​ ​Social Media: Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. (3)
q​ ​Other (4)
8 What foods are most popular?
9 Which food items are hardest to find?
10 Do you offer non-food essential items, such as personal care or cleaning supplies?
m​ ​Yes (1)
m​ ​No (2)
11 Do you offer perishable foods?
m​ ​Yes (1)
m​ ​No (2)
12 Which non-food items, such as personal care or cleaning supplies, are hardest to find?
13 Do the students who use your service also have access to financial aid?
m​ ​Yes (1)
m​ ​No (2)
m​ ​Unsure (3)

4. If No Is Selected, Then Skip To What are other needs that students ha...If Yes Is Selected, Then Skip To
How do you know students have financi...If Yes Is Selected, Then Skip To How do you know students have
financi...If Unsure Is Selected, Then Skip To What are other needs that students ha...
14 How do you know students have financial aid?
15 What are other needs that students have?
m​ ​Housing Security (1)
m​ ​General Health Counseling (2)
m​ ​Mental Health Counseling (3)
m​ ​Academic Advising (4)
m​ ​Personal Finance Advising (5)
m​ ​Other (6)
16 What is the source of your revenue? An example of revenue is grants, gifts, etc.
17 Do you know require students to provide evidence of food insecurity before use of service?
m​ ​Yes (1)
m​ ​No (2)
18 Where do recruit volunteers and staff?
19 Do you have 501(c)3 status or sponsorship? If so, please explain the relationship between your service
and the sponsoring organization.
20 Do you collect user feedback to consider for operational improvements?
m​ ​Yes (1)
m​ ​No (2)
21 We would like to learn more about campus food pantries. Would your food pantry be willing to distribute a
survey to its participants if the HOPE Lab created one?
m​ ​Yes (1)
m​ ​No (2)
Demographics
If appliable,
We want to know who they serve: Gender, Race, Income -> are all of these information valuable or needed?
Other notes:
This is the Draft questions from Clare Cady-
Survey Food Pantries, part of the CUFBA, to find out the following info (and anything else you
think would be useful):
— How many students do they serve per week on average?

5. — How do they advertise?
— What times of day or days of week are most popular? (mornings, evenings, weekends, weekdays,
etc)
Do you notice seasonal variation in the number of students who use the service?
— What foods are most popular?
Do you offer perishable foods?
Do you offer non-food essential items, such as personal care or cleaning supplies?
Which are hardest to find?
— Do students using pantries seem to have already used financial aid to the extent possible?
What evidence is there of this?
— What other needs do students using pantries have? How are these met/ not met?
— Also would the pantry be willing to distribute a survey to its members if the HOPE Lab created one?
We’d like to learn more about users of on-campus pantries.
--- What is your operating budget?
--- Where do you get your staff/volunteers?
--- How do you get your food/funding?
--- Do you have 501c3 status or sponsorship?
--- Do you collect user feedback to consider for operational improvements?
--- How much food do you distribute annually?
Interviewing Consent Form:
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Research Participant Consent Form
Title of the Study:​ An Overview of Campus Food Pantries
Principal Investigators and Researchers:​ Sara Goldrick-Rab phone: 608-265-2414;
email: srab@education.wisc.edu, Clare Cady (email: clare.cady@oregonstate.edu)
Minhtuyen Mai (email: mmai@uwalumni.com) 414-530-4854)
DESCRIPTION OF THE RESEARCH
You are invited to participate in a research study about how campus food pantries serve
their students. We want to better understand how students who are utilizing these food
pantries can better serve them. The purpose of the research is to ​know the best practices
of running a food pantry, since UW-Madison’s student government is going to open one in July
2015. Secondly, we want to know what is the impact of these campus food pantries? To find
these answers, the research team will do online surveys and phone interviews with organizers
of campus-based food pantries
WHAT WILL MY PARTICIPATION INVOLVE?

6. We will ask you to participate in an online survey about your food pantry is runned and
we may contact you for a follow up interview on the phone.
● Filling out one online survey (20 minutes)
● One interview over the phone (30 minutes- 1 hour)
In total, we estimate these activities will take about 1.5 hours of your time over the
course of one year. I will always ask you if you are comfortable participating in each
activity, and you can always choose not to participate. .
ARE THERE ANY RISKS TO ME?
In any study, there are risks of a breach of confidentiality, which could reveal your
participation in the study and your conversations with me. We will do everything that we
can to assure that what you say to me remains private and confidential.
If you decide not to participate or to withdraw from the interview you may do so freely,
and it will have no negative consequences for you of any sort, including on any services
you receive at your college. I am not affiliated with your college, and your college will
not be told that you are participating in the research. I will also never share identifiable
information about you with anyone at your college.
ARE THERE ANY BENEFITS TO ME?
We don't expect any direct benefits to you from participation in this study, though you
may enjoy talking about your experiences working at the campus food pantries, and we
hope that in the future the research will help to create policies and programs that help
students with college graduation.
COMPENSATION
There is no compensation from this study. Your input, however, can serve a way to
better understand how food pantries on campuses serve students.
HOW WILL MY CONFIDENTIALITY BE PROTECTED?
If you agree to participate in the study, I will ask you to choose a pseudonym (an
alternate name) that I will use whenever I make notes about our conversations or about
our time together. Neither your real name nor any other identifiable information will be
recorded in any of my notes. This also includes the organization and/or institution.
Consent forms will be kept separate from audio recordings so that your name cannot be
linked with the recording.

7. If you participate in this study, we would like to be able to quote you directly without
using your name. If you agree to allow us to quote your words when writing about this
study, please initial the statement at the bottom of this form.
We will maintain all information we collect for the study safety and securely on
UW-Madison and vendor servers. After study completion, data will be stored at
UW-Madison in a secured office and on secured servers for seven years. We may use
the information from this study for additional research projects that are not related to
college affordability.
WHOM SHOULD I CONTACT IF I HAVE QUESTIONS?
You may ask any questions about the research at any time. If you have questions about
the research after you leave today you can contact either of the Principal Researchers,
whose information is listed at the top of this form. If you have questions about your
rights as a research subject you should contact the Education Research and Social &
Behavioral Science IRB at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at 608-263-2320.
Please sign below if you are willing to participate in the research:
I consent to participate in the research
___________________________________ _________________
Signature Date
I consent to be audio taped and quoted directly in publications. My real name will not be
used at any point, so as to protect my confidentiality
___________________________________ _________________
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