It’s absolutely wonderful and it warms my heart as a UConn alum and a UConn dad myself.” “This is still a relatively new venture for the University of Connecticut, we’re all still trying to figure out the ins and outs of this, but the fact that we have somebody with the name, likeness and celebrity of Paige Bueckers here, talking to her fellow students and telling them, ‘please come to this pantry, please utilize this pantry,’ that’s just wonderful. That’s a significant number for a university like Connecticut, especially seeing that this particular pantry had only opened about six months ago. “So $50,000 is usually the equivalent of about 100,000 meals. “Generally, in the world of food banking, for every $1 donated, we could turn it into about two meals,” Jason Jakubowski, President and CEO of Connecticut Foodshare, told The Courant. The pantry remained open after the spring semester concluded, serving 60 households (147 people) in May, 40 households (166 people) in June and 34 households (138 people) in July. “So to be able to help with that, I know college is very expensive and students have to worry about paying for a lot of different things, so to take one more thing off their plate, literally, is amazing.” “We want to do big things and contribute to a lot of things and giving back to communities in addressing food insecurity, it’s a huge issue not just here but everywhere,” Bueckers said Monday in a press conference to announce the support. On Monday, Bueckers and Chegg announced a $50,000 donation to the “Husky Harvest” food pantry, where Bueckers will be able to help out thousands of her fellow students and staff at all of UConn’s campuses. The partnership has allowed Bueckers to help combat the issue of food insecurity, including the creation of a free, pop-up grocery market in her home state of Minnesota that was made possible with an additional partnership with the hunger relief company, Goodr.

In the world of NIL, the guard entering her fourth season with the Huskies has made it her focus to sign long-term, meaningful partnerships – like becoming a Brand Ambassador for Chegg, Inc. STORRS – UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers is a “huge believer” in giving back what she’s been given.

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