Donate
Help ensure that the OCC Basic Needs Center can continue to serve the OCC student community.
We believe every student deserves to have their basic needs met. Your donations will help us carry out our mission to reach and help more students every day! The Basic Needs Center accepts both monetary, unopened hygiene products, nonperishable food, and lightly used clothing donations to help our students thrive! Help OCC Basic Needs Center students thrive by ensuring our community's basic needs are met. Your contribution will go to help transform our campus into a basic needs secure institution.
Monetary Donations
You can make a tax-deductible gift to the OCC Basic Needs Center via the OCC Foundation. Select the 'Pirates Cove' on the "Gift Designation" part. Your gift will go to support the Pirates' Cove, and providing temporary housing assistance.
Food & Toiletry
We accept both toiletry and non-perishable goods as long as they are unopened and unexpired. Food donations can be dropped off at the Pirates' Cove 113. Examples of the food items you can donate include canned fruit and vegetables, canned soup, canned proteins (chicken, tuna), pastas, rice. Some of the most needed hygiene items shampoo and conditioner, body wash, menstrual products, detergent, toothpaste.
Clothing
OCC Basic Needs Center accepts gently used, professional and seasonal clothing donations! This can include the following: socks, dresses, jackets, shoes, blouses, pants, dress-shirts, and assorted accessories. We also accept children's clothing for our parenting students.