Support DACC on Giving Tuesday

Doña Ana Community College (DACC) is asking residents to open their hearts and their wallets to support the college’s food pantry on Giving Tuesday.   
DACC’s food pantry, Comfort Casita, assists students who may be suffering financial challenges. Students can receive food and other household items with a goal of lessening stress and the burden of economic challenges. Giving Tuesday will be celebrated on December 3rd of this year. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement created in 2012 that encourages people to do good.  
This Giving Tuesday, residents are asked to make a donation to the pantry so that more students may receive assistance. Donations are tax-deductible and can be made to https://nmsufoundation.org/givenow/web-givingtuesday. The process is simple:  
  • Select Make your Gift Early 
  • Choose your Amount 
  • Under designation, select DACC Comfort Casita 
  • If Comfort Casita is not available to select, click on Other, and type in “DACC Comfort Casita” or another designation of your choice. Please include DACC in what you type. 
  • Fill in your contact information and select how you would like to make your payment. 
Donations can also be made via check to NMSU Foundation with the memo line stating which fund to donate to. Checks can be mailed to:  
Aggie Saltman 
DAEM 210  
2800 Sonoma Ranch Blvd.  
Las Cruces, NM  88011 
The college’s Comfort Casita, established in February of 2023, has been visited nearly 8,000 times since its opening, which demonstrates a great need. The main pantry is located inside Alex Sanchez Hall at the Espina campus, 3400 S. Espina St. There are also micro-casitas located at the East Mesa campus, 2800 N. Sonoma Ranch Blvd.; Chaparral Center, 755 Prescott Anthony Dr., Gadsden Center, 1700 E. O’Hara Rd. and Sunland Park Center, 3365 McNutt Rd.