Connect on Campus

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You’re not alone.

Connect on Campus makes sure a rough week, a missed paycheck, or an unexpected crisis doesn’t derail a student’s future by meeting them with food, housing support, and care right when they need it most.

We know what it feels like to not know how you’ll make it.

At Connect on Campus, we don’t think anyone should have to choose between staying in school and getting through the week. We show up with care in the moments it matters most, helping to ensure that a hard time doesn’t have to become the end of someone’s story.

Student Success Grants

From textbooks to transit, we provide direct funding when money becomes a barrier.

Community & Connection

We create spaces for students to meet, breathe, and feel less alone because support is stronger when it’s shared.

Student Advocacy

We walk with students through their hardest moments, offering support, financial education, and clear next steps when everything feels overwhelming.

Meal & Supply Drives

Period products, hygiene kits, winter coats, dorm essentials, things people quietly go without.

We’re not a distant institution. Shaped by our own experiences, we know how much it means when someone reaches out and reminds you that you’re not alone.

With a shared commitment to student well-being, Connect on Campus brings together people who believe no one should have to navigate hardship alone. We exist to make sure that moments of crisis don’t become reasons to give up and that every student has the support they need to keep going.

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Hudson and Chloe are best friends, ever since Honors Biology in 6th grade. They met on the first day, and were told to stop talking in class ever since. In 2023, during their freshman year of college, Hudson was diagnosed with hydrocephalus and had to take time off of school for neurosurgery and recovery. On Thanksgiving Day, the duo was reunited at UCLA, sharing memories and jokes in a hospital room. Chloe asked Hudson what one thing she wished she had during this time was, and her response was:

“A community where I didn’t feel like I was alone – like I was the only one going through something like this.”

And Connect on Campus was born.

Connect on Campus, Inc., is a student-led non-profit organization in the state of New York. Led by students from Barnard College and Columbia University, we come from all walks of life, yet share a few key details:

★ We have experienced health crises, or taken care of loved ones who have.
★ We believe that access to healthcare is a human right, and aim to fill in the gaps that prevent many college students from a normal, successful college experience.
★ We seek to cultivate a community in which being ill or disabled is not an isolating factor, but rather a unique quality that allows for conversation, spiritual expansion, and mutual understanding.

Our mission is to provide financial support, mental health support, and academic resources to college students facing illness, disability, etc., either themselves or in their families.