Period Postal
The Sustainability, Equity, & Justice Fund Grant Program promotes sustainability by providing grants to create and implement projects that positively impact environmental, social, health, and economic practices on our campus and in our community.
Period Postal
Amount Awarded: $34,000
Academic Year: 2021-2022
Implementation: current; April 2022 – Winter 2023
Full application: Link
Period Postal is a program housed within the Counseling and Wellness Center and is aimed at distributing high-quality, environmentally responsible, and ethically made menstrual products to students through a mail-order system. The funding is being used to run a trial period of 3 quarters for the program, at which point metrics will be presented to Western in hopes of finding a permanent funding source.
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