Basic Needs Center

The ASUC COVID-19 Financial Relief Committee met Saturday to discuss updates on the allocation of the COVID-19 Financial Relief Fund to various campus organizations.

The campus Graduate Assembly met Thursday to discuss graduate student diversity, support during the COVID-19 pandemic and gender-neutral restrooms in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ released an email Monday, outlining campus plans in light of Alameda County’s recent declaration of a “shelter in place” amid the spread of COVID-19, colloquially known as the coronavirus.

Here's what we know about the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley's campus response to COVID-19, more colloquially known as coronavirus.

The The UC Berkeley Student Advocate’s Office and Basic Needs Center, along with others, recently established an emergency rental assistance program.

Defunding essential resources often makes it feel as though our value is dependent on the contributions we can make (such as academically) without raising the bottom line.

Several groups on campus are holding events to bring light to hunger and homelessness problems that many students and community members face in observance of this year’s National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week from Nov. 16 to Nov. 24.

The No Limits program has been defunded for half a year and students have been facing the consequences on our physical and mental health.

“A lot of the food that is grown in the garden is ... maintained by different student groups that come through the garden,” Bennett said.

After winning the Best Overall Awareness Week in the country in 2017, the UC Berkeley Basic Needs Center announced the 2019 campus Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week from Nov. 12-22.