GW Swipes Out Hunger

AY 2025-26 Campaign: How Our Community Can Help Address Food Insecurity

GW has teamed up with Swipe Out Hunger, a national nonprofit organization committed to ending college student hunger, to provide the GW community a way to support GW students who may be experiencing food insecurity. As inflation continues to rise, the Swipe Out Hunger donation campaign offers a convenient way for GW community members and especially students who will have unused money on their GWorld cards to help fellow GW students.

GW community members can donate their unused GWorld funds to support fellow GW students, The Store: GW’s Food Pantry, and the Abrahms Family Fund, an GW institutional grant that provides emergency GWorld dining funds for students in need. Donations are voluntary and are not tax deductible.

How to Donate 

As the semester concludes, if you have unspent dining dollars, campus cash or meal swipes remaining on your GWorld ID card, please consider donating those funds back to our own GW community to help ‘swipe out hunger.’

A few considerations to keep in mind:

• Both dining dollars and campus cash roll over from semester to semester and year to year as long as a student continues to be enrolled. Remaining card balances are not refunded at the end of each semester. Nor can a balance be used as payment on your tuition bill.
• Recent graduates can purchase an Alumni Card in the GWorld Office and transfer any unused dining dollars and/or campus cash balances to their new Alumni Card. Funds in an alumni GWorld account do not expire unless the account remains inactive (no deposits or charges) for a 36 consecutive month period.
• Campus cash loaded onto a GWorld account by GW faculty or staff employees does not expire and remains active as long as the individual remains employed. Refunds are not available if an employee separates from the university. 

1. If Donating Dining Dollars or Campus Cash...

In order to donate you must have an active GWorld card balance of either dining dollars or campus cash. 

Dining dollar and campus cash donations can only be made through the GET Mobile app on Apple or Android. At this time there are no other methods to transfer or donate dining dollars or campus cash funds.

Once the GET App is downloaded on your mobile device, you will first need to affiliate with George Washington University. To do so, you will select 'George Washington University' as your institution, enter your username (ie: your GW email), create a password and a custom 4-digit pin that will be used within the app.

Once you have affiliated with George Washington University within the app, follow the steps below t donate:

• Open the App.
• Click on the Accounts button on the bottom of the screen.
• Click on the Meal Donations button on the top of the next screen. 
• Next choose the account (ie: Dining Dollars or Campus Cash) and amount to donate. 

2.  If Donating Meal Swipes from your Block Meal Plan*...

Fill out the Meal Swipes Donation Form. This form is activated during the last two weeks of each semester.

If you have difficulty with the web form, please email dininggwu [dot] edu (dining[at]gwu[dot]edu). Include your GW UserID, full name and which block meal plan you are participating in. Also note how many block meal swipes you would like to donate from the amount you have remaining. A member of the GW Dining Team will respond to you within two-three business days to confirm your donation amount.

*Only students enrolled in a Block Meal Plan are eligible to donate swipes through the GW Swipe Out Hunger Donation Campaign. Students on the All Access, Vern All Access, or Revolutionary 85 Meal Plan are not eligible to donate unused meal swipes.

How to Request Aid

If you are currently facing food insecurity, please fill out the Meal Swipes Request Form.

Once we receive your response, a member of the GW Dining Team will reach out directly to the email provided.