Firebird Market

Spring 2024 Semester Dates of Operation:  January 10 – May 8, 2024

• Re-opening for Summer 2024 academic sessions in May
• Services are available as long as supplies last
• All food items will vary each week

Location:  UDC Van Ness, 4250 Connecticut Ave, Washington, DC 20008, Second Floor, Room 2414 (the building with the Firebird Millennium Cafe)

For a student to access the Firebird Market, you MUST have your card encoded at the UDC Police Department. The UDC One Card station is open Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. THEN, update your ID at one of the gray/black boxes on campus.

After registering and being granted access, you can open the door to Room 2414 with your UDC Student ID during the identified days and hours only. You are REQUIRED to check in upon each visit to the pantry. There is a mounted iPad on the wall next to the pantry door.  YOU MUST check in BEFORE ENTERING THE PANTRY.

The following rules must be followed. Not adhering to the rules one time will result in suspension of access for the semester.  No exceptions.

To access food services, each UDC student wanting to pick up groceries/toiletries MUST complete and submit the UDC Firebird Market registration form ONCE per semester. When the form is completed, it will take 48 – 72 hours to verify and program individual student IDs with access to the pantry in Building 4250, Room 2414.

To find the current link:

1. Log into myUDC
2. Click the Student Information Tab/Page
3. Click Food Pantry

Register for the semester here.

IF YOU DON’T FOLLOW THE RULES BELOW DIRECTLY AS INSTRUCTED, IT WILL NOT WORK FOR YOU.

After registering to access the Food Pantry, you must have your ID card encoded at the UDC Police Department (bldg. 39 C – Level).

Once encoded, tap your ID on Salto Lock Box (grey or black) until the light turns green.  You can open the door to Room 2414 with your UDC Student ID during the identified days and hours only. See below.

You are REQUIRED to check in upon each visit to the pantry. There is a mounted iPad on the wall next to the pantry door. YOU MUST check in BEFORE ENTERING THE PANTRY.

The rules must be followed. Not adhering to the rules one time will result in suspension of access, to be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Rules

1. READ AND FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS and RULES
2. Register for the current semester.
3. You must be an enrolled UDC student for the active academic semester.
4. Check in at the iPad BEFORE ENTERING the pantry every time you visit.
5. Only provide access to the pantry for yourself.
6. Each individual is allotted ten (10) minutes to collect items.
7. No more than ONE person in the pantry at one time, unless from the same household.
8. The next person MUST wait in the hallway.
9. Adhere to every sign displayed in the pantry
10. DO NOT take more of an item than the sign indicates. Do not hoard. Share.
11. Leave items the way you found them, Organized and Neat.

Hours of Operation for Self-Service

(Not including holidays and University closings)

Mondays: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m
Tuesdays: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Wednesday: 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Thursdays: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Fridays: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

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