Adopt-A-Week

Is your club, campus organization, or faculty department interested in hosting a food drive for the Seawolves Pantry? Claim a given week of the year to run your food drive through our Adopt-A-Week program!

The Adopt-A-Week initiative helps us to strategically coordinate drives across campus to help us sustain inventory and community support efforts. Through this program, we are able to schedule and plan for food drives more consistently each month, providing us a more stable stream of donations during the academic year.

Within the 2023-2024 academic year alone, we successfully collaborated with over 50 organizations within our community to host food drives, resulting in the collection of over 12,000 pounds of food and other basic needs products essential to keeping our shelves stocked and our doors open.

 Put your food drive on our radar by selecting a week of interest on our submission form.

If you have any questions about hosting a food drive, please email SBUFoodPantry@stonybrook.edu.

• How it Works

  Please submit this form at least 3 business days prior to the start date of the food drive you want to host so we can best support you and your efforts.

  After you have expressed interest via form submission, we may be in touch with any questions we have. Our team will also check in with you about how your food drive is going and coordinate a time to drop off your donations at the Seawolves Pantry at the end of your food drive.

• Why Adopt-A-Week?

  A common struggle that food banks and pantries across the nation experience is the ebb-and-flow of donations throughout the year.  During holiday seasons, charitable giving tends to increase, resulting in an influx of food drives within the span of a few months. But what of the months in between?

  By launching our Adopt-A-Week initiative, we are able to encourage food drives to occur throughout all months of the year. Instead of many drives all at once, we have a handful that occur consistently on a weekly basis. This ensures that we have a constant stream of donations coming in even during slower months, and overall allows our pantry to be well-stocked, all year long.