HOW TO SUPPORT THE SOP

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Help Fund the SOP

Donate Online

Our online donation platform works through your choice of Square or PayPal to accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express.  No PayPal account is required. Your donations allow us to purchase food and supplies, manage donations, safely prepare food, support our incredible SOP student staff, and continue growing. 

When donating, you have the option of designating to one of three accounts:

General Fund | Used to support all of the programs at Wesley-Luther, from staff salaries, administration, and worship to basic needs support for students.

Spartan Open Pantry | Used specifically to support food and other basic needs distributed at the SOP. This fund also supports our student and professional staff that serve the Spartan Open Pantry.

Student Assistance Fund | Gifts to this fund help students with emergency needs. These can range from unexpected medical bills to helping unhoused students or students facing eviction.

Donate by Mail

Monetary donations can be sent to the Spartan Open Pantry offices at the Smith Campus Ministries Center, 500 Stirling St., Greensboro, NC 27403. Please make checks out to “Spartan Open Pantry”.

Other Online Options

Amazon Wishlist

You can give online through our food pantries Amazon wishlist. Your donation will be shipped directly to the Spartan Open Pantry, and our items list is regularly updated.

Food Donations

On Campus

Collection boxes are located around campus to collect non-perishable food items. Boxes are collected by staff and volunteers every one to two weeks. If your box is full and needs to be picked up please email sop@wesleyluther.org.

Collection Boxes:

  • Campus Activities and Programs Office (EUC)
  • OLCE Lobby (EUC 217)
  • Housing and Residence Life (Weil-Winfeild)
  • Kaplan Center
  • Moore Nursing Building (1st floor)
  • Student Affairs (Mossman)
  • Student Health Center
  • UNCG Police Station

Smith ACM Center

Donations can also be made at the Smith Center (500 Stirling Street) in the collection boxes in the lobby just inside the front doors. For a map and directions, please click here.

Monday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Thursday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Host a Food Drive

We are lucky to have so many churches, community organizations, departments, clubs, and individuals who host food drives to collect the food we give to students each week.

We ask that all food drive collections be donated at the Smith Campus Ministries Center. Pick-up appointments may be available for drives collecting over 1000 lbs. of food, depending on staff and equipment availability.  

Volunteer

Our staff and volunteers work together to ensure distributions happen 51 weeks per year. Volunteers help cook, collect, and organize food and all the cleaning and administrative work necessary to make a food pantry happen. Volunteers may also help harvest food or tend the garden at the Smith Center. You can see all volunter opportunities here.

Learn

Learn more about college hunger and how you can advocate for change and for programs that will help end college hunger. Pantry staff may be available to speak to classes, departments, and groups about the pantry’s work and hunger impacts on Greensboro.