RU Engaged was featured in Rutgers Today. The article discussed the Byrne seminar's alternative spring break where students participated in hands-on community engaged work with a number of local organizations throughout the week. Students learned about food security...
The objective of this report was to better understand how the emergency food system works during a crisis. The research sought to identify networks and points of strength as well as areas to be strengthened to improve resiliency during an emergency.
This report analyzes the ways in which individual pantries throughout Middlesex County interact with food product date labels, food waste, staff and client education, and the impact that COVID-19 has had on those topics.
This report offers some insight about the non-food challenges that pantries confronted during the pandemic, how pantry staff navigated the demand for these services during the pandemic through July of 2021, and it provides some idea about the type of information that might be useful to pantries moving forward.
This brief examines how a set of food pantries in Middlesex County, NJ experienced the pandemic from March to October/November 2020.
This report examines how emergency food providers in Middlesex County, New Jersey, changed their practices during the pandemic. The report looks at how food pantries navigated challenges related to food demand, supply, and distribution, and highlights the experiences...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the emergency food system, challenging a system that was already operating with few resources. Food pantries developed strategies to meet surging need while navigating COVID-19 safety challenges and dramatic shifts in...
Pantries have tried a number of different strategies to increase institutional cultural competency and mediate language and cultural differences.
The 2019-2020 Ralph W. Voorhees Fellows examined the role of volunteers in pantry management.
Food banks and pantries are increasingly turning to technology such as GPS tracking, logistics software, and database management to manage food inventories, client records, and governmental reporting.
Mi Shih and Kathe Newman’s new edited volume, The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe, explores global case studies about land, market logic, negotiation and community values.
This past week, students enrolled in the Byrne First Year Seminar, faculty, students, staff and community partners spent an Alternative Spring Break learning about food security and engaging in hands-on projects with Unity Square Community Center, REPLENISH, and...
The Affordable Housing and Shelter Built on Faith Land in the United States, 2015-2025 report accompanies the database and examines trends and patterns that emerge from the data. Analyzing 200 development projects, the report examines which religions and denominations...
Drs. Eric Seymour, Will Payne, and Katharine Nelson along with Stephen Danley will to participate in a seminar on Affordable Housing & Corporate Acquisition of Properties in NJ on Tuesday, February 24th from 1-3pm at the Trenton State House Annex Welcome Center....
Dr. Mi Shih will be participating in a panel discussion entitled, "Dialogues Between Concrete and Clay" on February 5th from 6:30-8:30pm in the Florio Auditorium at the Bloustein School. The panel discusses Liu Shiming and the transformation of urban life and public...