{"id":70953,"date":"2020-03-19T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=70953"},"modified":"2020-03-20T09:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T13:34:58","slug":"making-ends-meet-initiative-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2020\/03\/19\/making-ends-meet-initiative-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Ends Meet Initiative launches Our Community Cupboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Graduate school is time of intense investment in intellectual capital and personal growth. This endeavor sometimes comes at the sacrifice of finances that allow for other choices, especially maintaining a healthy lifestyle and diet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are working to meet the needs of GMS students and post-doctoral trainees by providing the following additional resources as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/students\/student-life\/making-ends-meet\/\">Making Ends Meet<\/a> Initiative:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Healthier meals served on campus\u00a0 (for seminars, student group event or campus-wide events)<\/li>\n<li>Launching<span>\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/students\/student-life\/making-ends-meet\/gms-our-community-cupboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GMS Community Cupboard<\/a>, a GMS Pilot Project from the \u201c<em>Making Ends Meet<\/em>\u201d Initiative, stocked with<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2020\/01\/GMS-Our-Community-Cupboard-food-table-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-perishable goods and personal hygiene items<\/a>.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Our Community Cupboard is currently only open on request by emailing<\/span> <a href=\"mailto:gmsso@bu.edu\">gmsso@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Providing<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>healthy cooking tips\u00a0<\/em>and seminars\u00a0 on<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>living on a budget\u00a0<\/em>as part of our Student Growth &amp; Learning initiative.<\/li>\n<li>Hot breakfast before final exams<\/li>\n<li>Raising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/students\/student-life\/making-ends-meet\/\">awareness to affordable resources\u00a0<\/a>at BU and BMC and locally in the Boston \/ South End area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate school is time of intense investment in intellectual capital and personal growth. This endeavor sometimes comes at the sacrifice of finances that allow for other choices, especially maintaining a healthy lifestyle and diet. We are working to meet the needs of GMS students and post-doctoral trainees by providing the following additional resources as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70953"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72126,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70953\/revisions\/72126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}