Excelsior University’s community engagement group is partnering with Albany High School and Troy High School for the third annual Snacks for Students collection drive. The initiative fights food insecurity in the classroom by collecting and donating healthy snacks to students each month of the 2024-2025 school year.
If you would like to help the Snacks for Students program, please consider donating healthy items such as granola bars, bottled water, cereal bars, fruit snacks, or crackers via the drop boxes found in the lobbies of each Excelsior building, or by sending donations directly to Excelsior for distribution via an Amazon Wishlist. Items can be set up using the “subscribe and save” feature for easy monthly contributions that are shipped directly to Excelsior’s mailroom. Snacks for Students deliveries will be made through June 2025.
To kick the drive off, the Community Engagement Group is excited to contribute $300 from the Basket Drive’s proceeds to purchase items for the first drop-off to the schools, which will occur in September. Monthly drop-offs will occur throughout the year until the last one in June 2025.
With the start of a new school year, students in the Capital Region are returning to classrooms without the proper nutrition to focus on their academic success. According to Save the Children, “hungry students are more likely to have less energy, be more easily distracted and less interested in schoolwork, have lower math scores, repeat a grade, and come to school late or miss school
