Retriever Essentials at UMBC

🚨🚨For this week only (April 6th - 10th), Retriever Essentials and Parking Services is having a mini food for fines!

Food For Fines is a donation program where donating any 5 non-perishable food items and/or five toiletry items to parking services, and they will reduce one citation (up to a $50 violation 🤑) to a warning. The citation must be from the current semester, and one citation per student.

Good Morning, Retrievers!

If you are a UMBC student experiencing food insecurity, sign up on our intake sheet to schedule a meeting with our social work intern. Through the Spring 2026 semester, students in need can contact us at [email protected] for more information.

If you find that you require additional resources, don’t forget to visit The Essential Space on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday every week from 11am-5:30pm. Even though we are closed on Thursdays, make sure to come visit us at our Free Farmers’ Market at The Apartment Community Center on Thursdays from 2pm-2:45pm.

Have a great day!

Shoutout who shattered their goal of 500lbs for Food for Fines and brought in 880lbs of food and basic needs items!! This is more than double the donations from last year :) We are so grateful for your partnership and support, thank you!!

On November 19th, Retriever Essentials will be partnering with mRelief in order to bring SNAP awareness to campus. Have you ever been curious to apply for SNAP benefits? In this information session, Retriever Essentials alongside mRelief partner Clarissa Chen will demonstrate how you can use their SNAP eligibility screener in order to apply for benefits. This session will cover the basics of what SNAP offers, instructions on how to apply for SNAP, as well as showing what resources students can access through their program.

Interested in on-campus resources? In this session, Retriever Essentials will help you stay up-to-date on what Retriever Essentials offers in The Essential Space, Free Farmers Market, as well as other resources on campus. We look forward to further combatting food insecurity, on and off-campus.

Interested in the event, and want to attend? Make sure to RSVP on our attendance sheet linked in our story!