Campaigns
The Basic Needs Center offers an array of educational campaign to empower you in your hollistic basic human rights!
2025 Basic Rights Campaign Booklet
Purpose: The Basic Rights Campaign aims to empower historically marginalized communities to recognize the services offered at the Hub Basic Needs Resource Center is simply meeting their basic human right towards adequate food, stable housing, and financial literacy.
Goal: Through this campaign, you will be empowered in your basic rights and learn how to access our services to thrive as a student at UCSD and beyond!
2024 Basic Needs: Human Right, Collective Responsibility Campaign
The Basic Rights Campaign aims to empower historically marginalized communities to recognize the services offered at the Hub Basic Needs Resource Center is simply meeting their basic human right towards adequate food, stable housing, and financial literacy. Through this campaign, you will be empowered in your basic rights and learn how to access our services to thrive as a student at UCSD and beyond! We invite you to watch our full playlist 2024 Basic Needs A Human Right, Collective Responsibility Educational Campaign UCSD Basic Needs.
Financial Security: 2024 Basic Needs Educational Campaign
This portion of the 2024 Campaign aims to uplift financial resources offered at the Basic Needs Center, including the Basic Needs Emergency Grant (BNEG), Personal Hygiene Program, Affordable Grocery Map, and Grocery Shuttle.
Time stamps include:
- Laying the foundation of financial challenges: start of video to 2 minutes 5 seconds
- Basic Needs Emergency Grant: 2 minutes 9 seconds
- Personal Hygiene Program: 2 minutes 59 seconds
- Affordable Grocery Map: 4 minutes 8 seconds
- Grocery Shuttle: 4 minutes 28 seconds
Watch the video: Financial Security: 2024 Basic Needs A Human Right, Collective Responsibility Educational Campaign.
Check out these resources, for questions, feel free to contact basicneeds@ucsd.edu.
Housing Security: 2024 Basic Needs Educational Campaign
This portion of the 2024 Campaign aims to uplift housing resources offered at the Basic Needs Center through the Off Campus Housing Office!
Time stamps are below:
- Student Narratives: 10 seconds
- History of the Housing Crisis in San Diego: 30 seconds
- Off Campus Housing Resources: 2 minutes 35 seconds
Watch the video: Financial Security: 2024 Basic Needs A Human Right, Collective Responsibility Educational Campaign.
Check out these resources, for questions, feel free to contact basicneeds@ucsd.edu.
Food Security: 2024 Basic Needs Educational Campaign
This portion of the 2024 Campaign UCSD Basic Needs aims to uplift food resources offered at the Basic Needs Center: Triton Food Pantry, Food Recovery Network, CalFresh, iTable, Yes Food, and community resources!
Time stamps are below:
- History of food challenges (food desserts, redling, etc): start of video to 1 minute 24 seconds
- Triton Food Pantry: 1 minute 35 seconds
- Food Recovery Network: 2 minutes 22 seconds
- CalFresh: 3 minutes 9 seconds
- iTable food security for international students): 3 minutes 30 seconds
- Yes Food (food security for undocumented students): 4 minutes 2 seconds
2024 Basic Needs: A Human Right, Collective Responsibility
Check out these resources, for questions, feel free to contact basicneeds@ucsd.edu.
Student Testimonials: 2024 Basic Needs Educational Campaign
Thank you to our alumni and current students for uplifting and sharing your stories!
Time stamps are below:
- Basic Needs Emergency Grant recipient: 39 seconds
- Basic Needs Assistance Form Housing Security: 1 minute 48 seconds
- Off Campus Housing Website: 2 minutes 47 seconds
- CalFresh, Triton Food Pantry, Food Recovery Network: 3 minute 15 seconds
- Triton Food Pantry: 4 minutes 32 seconds
- CalFresh: 5 minutes 1 second
Having access to housing, food, and financial resources is your BASIC HUMAN RIGHT!
For questions on any Basic Need Services offered at UC San Diego, please email us at basicneeds@ucsd.edu.
Housing Campaigns
Our Off Campus Housing Office (OCHO) creates annual housing campaigns to empower and educate folks on topic related to housing. To see their annual campaigns, click here!
The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis
Episode 1: The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis
UCSD BASIC NEEDS presents EPISODE 1 of ‘The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis’
Follow our Basic Needs Peer Educator, Louis Avalos, through a story of diving into housing as a human’s basic right & one of the reasons why San Diego is facing a housing crisis.
Episode 2: The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis
UCSD BASIC NEEDS presents EPISODE 2 of ‘The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis’
Follow our Basic Needs Peer Educator, Louis Avalos, as he continues to dive into housing as a human’s basic right & one of the reasons why San Diego is facing a housing crisis. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Episode 1 of the series! 🍓
Episode 3: The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis
UCSD BASIC NEEDS presents EPISODE 3 of ‘The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis’
Follow our Basic Needs Peer Educator, Louis Avalos, as he continues to dive into housing as a human’s basic right & one of the reasons why San Diego is facing a housing crisis. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Episode 1 & 2 of the series! 🍓
Episode 4: The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis
UCSD BASIC NEEDS presents EPISODE 4 of ‘The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis’
Follow our Basic Needs Peer Educator, Louis Avalos, as he continues to dive into housing as a human’s basic right & one of the reasons why San Diego is facing a housing crisis. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Episode 1, 2, and 3 of the series!
Episode 5: The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis
UCSD BASIC NEEDS presents EPISODE 5 of ‘The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis’
Follow our Basic Needs Peer Educator, Louis Avalos, as he concludes the series of housing as a human’s basic right & one of the reasons why San Diego is facing a housing crisis. Thank you all for following along with all 5 episodes! If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the first 4 episodes of the series!
Episode 5: The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis
UCSD BASIC NEEDS presents EPISODE 5 of ‘The Untold Story of the San Diego Housing Crisis’
Follow our Basic Needs Peer Educator, Louis Avalos, as he concludes the series of housing as a human’s basic right & one of the reasons why San Diego is facing a housing crisis. Thank you all for following along with all 5 episodes! If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the first 4 episodes of the series!
Bank On Yourself
Purpose: The Financial Wellness Campaign aims to improve and empower students with the resources necessary for students financial well being.
Goal: Through this campaign, you will have the knowledge and resources to improve your Financial well being.
History & Why
At Basic Needs, we recognize that financial hardships tend to be an underlying factor to accessing food or housing. Just like your education at UCSD is an investment, you need to invest in yourself to ensure you get your financial needs met. We believe it is your basic human right to have access to information that supports your financial wellness journey!
Collaborators
Thank you to our Collaborator's
Off Campus Housing Office (OCHO)
Student Affair Case Management Services
AS Transportation and Transformation
Graduate and Professional Student Association
Seventh College Student Council
Marshall Student Student Council
Warren College Student Counicl
Eleanor Roosevelt College Student Council