Published: March 5, 2019

Inside a box of donated non-perishable foods

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This past January, CU ذكذكتسئµ Parking Services collected 778 non-perishable food items and waived more than $4,100 in parking fines in their Food for Fines campaign. Parking Services then donated those food items to ذكذكتسئµâ€™s Harvest of Hope Pantry.

"The Food for Fines program at CU has been an incredible resource for the Pantry,â€‌ said Harvest of Hope Pantry Executive Director Riley Bright. “There are people on the CU campus who are in a position to support the Pantry, and there are also people who may need to access our services from time to time.â€‌

Through Food for Fines, anyone who had received a parking citation before Jan. 1, 2019, could donate a minimum of five non-perishable food items to have one current unpaid citation waived. The citation must not have been sent toج‎collections or have been placed on the student tuition and fee bill.

“One of the strategic imperatives that the chancellor announced in 2016 was to positively impact humanity,â€‌ said Tom McGann, director of CU ذكذكتسئµâ€™s Parking Services. “When we were discussing this as a team, our enforcement division came up with the campaign.â€‌

This is the fifth time since 2016 that CU Parking Services has held the Food for Fines program. During these campaigns, CU ذكذكتسئµ Parking Services has waived more than $23,000 in fines and donated approximately 5,800 non-perishable food items.