Food Security
CSUN Food Pantry
The CSUN Food Pantry exists to provide emergency nourishment and basic necessities at no cost to CSUN’s students. They supply food and offers food program assistance to those who are without reliable access to affordable, nutritious food. Our goal is to minimize the academic impact on our students by providing the needed essentials. The CSUN Food Pantry is a resource for CSUN students, faculty, and staff to help alleviate food insecurity and hunger within our campus community.(818) 677-2730 |
Location:The CSUN Food Pantry is located in Laurel Hall; next to Sagebrush Hall, directly across from parking lots D6 and E6.
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CalFresh Outreach
CalFresh Outreach is an application assistance program to support potentially eligible students with obtaining food aid.(818) 677-2704
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Location:All appointments are currently via phone or Zoom with one of our CalFresh Outreach Advocates.
Hours of operation:CalFresh Outreach will be operating under modified hours. To book an appointment, select the CalFresh CSUN YouCanBookMe profile, choose your appointment type, then choose an available time from the synced calendar
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CalFresh – Retail and Restaurant Meal Program
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Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program)
The WIC Program helps pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children under age 5 years old to eat well and stay healthy by providing healthy foods at no cost.(818) 361-7541 |
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CSUN Lactation Spaces
CSUN provides designated lactation spaces for staff, faculty, and students who have returned to work or school and need a space to safely express their milk. All of the CSUN lactation spaces are private, comfortable, and easily accessible. Lactation is the process of making milk for a baby and requires consistent, predictable removal of milk from breasts to maintain milk supply, for comfort and to prevent illness.(818) 677-7715 |
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CSUN Dining
CSUN Dining provides convenient snacks, coffeehouses, and reasonably priced meals throughout CSUN campus.(818) 677-2669 |
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EOP/TRIO Student Support Services
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Location:TRIO SSS is at Bayramian Hall, Room #220
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Food Recovery Network
Join the Food Recovery Network (FRN) at CSUN in fighting waste and feeding people! FRN@CSUN recovers food from CSUN dining locations that would otherwise be thrown away, and we deliver it to local shelters who feed those in need. We have weekly recoveries and there are many ways to help!. If you are interested, please email
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Institute for Sustainability: Sustainable Garden Education Center
The CSUN food garden was established to educate students about sustainable food gardening techniques and healthy food choices, to promote direct community involvement and provide service-learning opportunities.(818) 677-7710 |
Location:The garden and compost area are located on the North East side of the California State University, Northridge campus between the baseball and softball fields and directly behind Northridge Academy High School
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Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition, and Dietetics
The mission of the Marilyn Magaram Center (MMC) is to enhance and promote health and well-being through research, education and services in food science, nutrition and dietetics. |
Location:Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition, and Dietetics is located at CSUN Sequoia Hall Room 120
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