Annual Signature Project of the Community Service Center

Beat Auburn Beat Hunger is an annual event that was created by the Community Service Center at The University of Alabama and the West Alabama Food Bank in 1994. During the four weeks leading up to the Iron Bowl, students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members "fight" hunger and poverty in West Alabama by challenging Auburn University and the Food Bank of East Alabama to see who can collect more non-perishable food to help needy Alabama families have a happier and healthier holiday season.

Since 1994 The University of Alabama has collected 544,381 pounds of food to Auburn's 679,580 pounds. Together our two universities have raised an astounding 1,223,961 pounds of food to support Alabama’s citizens who regularly do not have enough to eat. This good-natured competition has made an impact that reaches far beyond the campuses where it began.

Last year we collected almost 2.5 times as much as our previous year’s record of 62,014 pounds. This year, we can do it again to beat hunger and again BEAT AUBURN!!!