Dobbin McNatt has been running the former Wexford Ridge now Lussier Community Center Food Pantry for decades.
He's never seen a need grow so fast like it has in recent months.
But he's been given great help and guidance from students with the UW Madison School of Nursing.

Before their project to help *plan* the food pantry's future... McNatt and his colleagues were too busy to look past feeding those who needed help week to week.

" We haven't really organized anything. it's just people show up and we *do things and it's good to get things down on paper. "

The students - who came up with the guide about a year ago - say they got a new understanding of the community, and how those needs are similar to what's happening in health care.

"Helping other people is a major portion of nursing and that's definitely what we're doing there. And I think I got just as much out of it as people who use the pantry did. "

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