{"id":109786,"date":"2021-07-27T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=109786"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:35:42","slug":"dayton247now-wright-state-university-students-help-feed-community-through-pantries-on-a-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/07\/27\/dayton247now-wright-state-university-students-help-feed-community-through-pantries-on-a-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton247Now: Wright State University students help feed community through ‘Pantries on a Post’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim McClain was one of seven Wright State MBA students who worked with Good Neighbor House to install five food pantries around Dayton. (Video by Kris Sproles \/ photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State MBA students are working to help their community through ‘Pantries on a Post.’<\/p>\n

A wooden purple pantry sits next to a busy street in downtown Dayton, filled with cereal, saltines, pasta sauce, and cream of chicken soup. \u201cTake food if you need it,\u201d a sign encourages. To some, the food provided in the pantry on a post is the difference between getting dinner that night, or none at all.<\/p>\n

A team of seven Master of Business Administration students at Wright State University wanted to make a difference in their community and so partnered with\u00a0Good Neighbor House<\/a>\u00a0to arrange the installation of five pantries in and around Dayton. \u201cIt\u2019s been fantastic,\u201d said Tim McClain, an MBA student from Lewisburg. \u201cA ton of people will leave notes, just saying how grateful they are and how appreciative they are having these things in the area. They just pick up a box of spaghetti or something and they\u2019ve got food for the night. It\u2019s been really good in the areas they\u2019ve been installed in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The food pantries are part of a national movement called \u201cGive What You Can, and Take What You Need\u201d, and as the slogan suggests anybody is free add to the pantry or take anything they might need. \u201cAnyone can come up to these and put food in it or take food out,\u201d McClain said.<\/p>\n

Good Neighbor House keeps the pantries stocked, and there is no limit on how much food one person can take. McClain says that there haven\u2019t been any reported issues of people taking too much food.<\/p>\n

The pantries are located next to Good Neighbor House, outside a church near the University of Dayton, downtown next to St. John\u2019s United Church of Christ and outside churches in Riverside and Fairborn.<\/p>\n

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