Bowling Green Program Allows Students to Donate Some Unused Meal Swipes

The Falcon Care program at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University allows students with extra meal plan swipes near the end of a semester to donate them to students facing food insecurity, reports the BG News. The program, in effect since the fall semester, allows students to place one swipe per week into a “swipe bank” collected by dining services. They are then loaded onto cards containing five swipes each and distributed by the Office of the Dean of Students to students referred by a University health or financial office. To maintain the recipients' anonymity, the cards are indistinguishable from temporary meal cards given to visitors.