GRANTEES - FOURTH ROUND

Adams 12 Five Star Schools Nutrition Services

Adams 12 Five Star School’s Nutrition Services Department is committed to ensuring our community has access to consistent and nutritious meals in a safe and welcoming environment. Nutrition Services financially operates separate from the General Fund of Adams 12 Five Star Schools. USDA funding only covers a portion of the expense needed to run COVID feeding sites. We will need separate funding to increase services in June and July, 2020. Awarded funds would be used to add the first ever mobile meal program to our emergency feeding offerings. The five site based emergency feeding locations, their 5 comprehensive high schools, are spread out among our school district and target different populations.

Adams County Emergency Food Bank

Adams Co Emergency Food Bank provides thousands of Adams County children, adults and seniors in need with nutritious emergency food. We deliver service to a county with high poverty (nearly half of students qualify for federal free/reduced lunch program), and one-in-five seniors lack an adequate food supply (DRCOG, 2018). The Food Bank is requesting funds to cover expanded costs of purchasing and distributing more food than has ever been distributed. There is also an increasing purchases of protein items to help families that lack nutritional food at home.

Archuleta School District

The goal of this project is to continue to provide breakfast and lunch daily to more than 440 students that are experiencing food insecurity during the summer months when school is not in session. Archuleta School District needs funding to provide emergency breakfast and lunch meals during the summer months. The plan is to distribute these meals during June, July, and August when school is not in session. At current capacity with continued need, Archuleta School District will serve 894 meals to children age 5 - 18 daily during the summer months of June, July, and August when school is not in session. The grant would go towards assisting in that work.

Attention Homes

Attention Homes serves youth between 12-24 years old in the foster care system and living in our residential home; youth in the community that are currently homeless or at-risk of homelessness receiving services at our shelter or drop-in program; and youth living in our transitional living/housing programs that were formerly homeless.

Aurora Interfaith Community Service

Aurora Interfaith Community Services (AICS) provides emergency assistance to Aurora residents in need, primarily through food bank services that now include a mobile food bank program in partnership with the City of Aurora. AICS is rapidly expanding services to meet increased needs due to COVID-19. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, AICS needs to procure even more food to meet the drastically increased food assistance needs during the crisis as well as to compensate for decreased in-kind food donations due to donors facing hardship themselves. Grant funding will support the purchase of additional food as well as outreach to prospective new in-kind food donors.

Boulder Food Rescue

Boulder Food Rescue works to create a more just and less wasteful food system. We deliver food from food donors to other nonprofits and communities, with a focus on No Cost Grocery Programs,distribution points for and run by communities most impacted by food insecurity.

Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver

The Boys and Girls Club provides Club members with a safe, supportive, fun and enriching environment that inspires and empowers them to achieve their greatest potential. During COVID, the Club are prioritizing our food services, which aim to reduce hunger among youth and families experiencing food insecurity and poverty. With $25,000, the Club will be able to provide 14,400 individual meals in the coming months, as well as 18,000 healthy snacks. Without Blueprint funds, it will be difficult to provide these food services.

Center Consolidated Schools

The Center Schools Community seeks to develop independent, self directed, self motivated, adventurous, risk taking, experiential learners armed with the skills necessary to meet the challenges they will face in the 21st Century. In an effort to meet the needs of the whole child, we are providing daily breakfast and lunch Monday through Thursday, providing weekly food bags to our homeless families, and giving weekly grocery certificates for food boxes to our families most in need. Food is provided through a pick up at the school and through delivery for families with that need. This funding will allow CCS to add these families to the list who receive food bags for dinner and the weekend.

Christian Action Guild

The goal of Christian Action Guild is to provide food, financial assistance, and referrals to other community services to Golden area residents in crisis and or experiencing hardship. Do to this pandemic the National Postal Food Drive that is held every May has been cancelled. This food drive generates 25K lbs of food for our pantry. Without this it will be very difficult to serve the current 285 individuals and the increased number of individuals and families that will be in need due to the COVID-19 crisis. With the additional funds CAG will purchase hot fresh meals from local restaurants.Additionally, by providing much needed food and fresh meals this would eliminate the need for clients to go to the local grocery store and be exposed to the Covid-19 virus.

Colorado East Community Action Agency

The mission of CECAA is to stabilize families and move them out of poverty. Our food programs provides nutritious food to 300 families with low in come in Lincoln County. We anticipate growth in participation due to the impact of COVID-19 on employment in the area. We offer utility payment assistance and free income tax preparation. We will use the funding to help us maintain staffing of our seven employees in order to continue our food program and leverage other funding streams toward programmatic needs.

Colorado State University Foundation

The Rams Against Hunger (RAH) program has collaborated across the CSU campus for 6+ years to build a menu of services that support students experiencing food insecurity. Services include a monthly mobile food pantry, a meal-swipe program, pocket pantries, a food recovery program and in-person assistance with navigating federal aid eligibility. According to a recent survey conducted by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University, 39% of student respondents indicated being food-insecure. This data comes from over 167,000 students from 227 colleges in 44 states. CSU participated in this survey and our numbers are not much different, with 32% of respondents experiencing food insecurity in the previous 30 days. Through our continued partnership with the Food Bank of Larimer County and with additional support from Hormel, CSU has initiated a four-day-per-week food distribution point on campus, beginning April 23. This food distribution center is serving approximately 300 visitors per week, and we anticipate hosting this service through the summer, and if the need and funding remains, through the fall.

Community Food Share

Community Food Share (CFS) is a food bank serving Boulder and Broomfield counties, a service area with a population of more than 375,000 people. Funding from the Blueprint to End Hunger Emergency Relief fund would support Community Food Share's ability to purchase food to support marginalized and underserved populations, including Latinx and monolingual Spanish speaking families, older adults and the homebound, and low income children and their families in Boulder and Broomfield counties.

Conejos Clean Water

CCW works toward food, environmental and social justice issues. CCW has begun planting season, as have 8 elevated beds awaiting seeds and water. A portion of the funds will be used to hire a nutritionist/cook to provide a menu schedule and receipts to families that will be posted on CCW Facebook page, website and google classroom. CCW will be able to offset food costs for students returning in the fall by having some of their food source coming from the fall harvest. To maintain the community garden through the summer months, CCW will incur an $1000 expense but all community members will benefit from this harvest.

Cripple Creek Victor School District RE-1

Cripple Creek Victor School District has been working hard to feed our students and keep them supplied with the tools they need to have a successful school year despite many obstacles. Thank you to the teachers and staff who have worked so hard to make the best of a difficult situation. The funding will be used to help obtain additional nutritional food products which have increased in cost due to availability.

Denver Sisters Circle

Denver Sisters Circle is a Denver-based cultural organization of over 1100 African American women focused on the empowerment, growth, health and wellness of women in Colorado. The group supports these women through the distribution and delivery of food and other essentials items. Specifically, the funding will be used to procure desperately needed food for delivery and distribution from local farmers to people of color in the Denver Metro Area so that they can stay inside and protect their health.

Dove Creek Care and Share Food Pantry

Dove Creek Care and Share Food Pantry's goal is to be sure that no person is food insecure in Dolores County and Egnar in San Miguel County. Sheltering in place and safer at home has most at-risk residents at home and unable to easily travel to replenish fresh food without concern for health, especially since travel is over 30 minutes each way for a fully featured grocer. The garden project started last year and was underfunded, and yet successful. The funds will bring that work to harvest faster and fuller - something that will very much serve the community in a way that offers a level of dignity when long-term hand-outs may erode that identity.

Emergency Family Assistance Association

EFAA helps the most vulnerable in the community whose immediate need for food, shelter and other basic necessities cannot be met by other means, and supports their efforts toward self-sufficiency. This March, EFAA implemented emergency response efforts to meet the deepened needs of existing participants along with a surge of new applicants impacted by the COVID crisis. In response, EFAA has doubled its financial assistance, waived 3 months of rent for transitional housing families, and restructured its Food Pantry to serve 40% more households while meeting new COVID safety protocols. This fund would go towards assisting the emergency food pantry response.

Family Medicine Center Food Pantry

The UCHealth Family Medicine Food pantry is serving an increase in new clients who are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19pandemic. The food pantry is co-located with a key safety-net medical clinic. During the pandemic when residents are asked to limit their time in public spaces, the food clinic provides clients with the advantage of combining a trip to a medical appointment with the opportunity to go home with nutrient dense food. The funding will be used to increase the inventory of protein and dairy products for clients. The food is medicine for those with chronic diseases and improves their economic status.

Fighting to Farm

Fighting to Farm is committed to end food insecurity and hunger in underrepresented, underserved rural communities. Fighting to Farm supports local farmers and ranchers by procuring food and produce directly from local farms to distribute and deliver to rural, low income, disabled residents. The goal is two fold, 1) supporting farmers through direct purchase 2) to provide fresh foods through safe food distribution to underrepresented, underserved rural residents in need. Fighting to Farm will use this emergency funding to purchase fresh produce and meat directly from local farmers and ranchers, and FTF will deliver that much-needed food to hungry families in rural Colorado.

Fishers Peak Soup Kitchen

FPSK provides the homeless with a hot meals and personal hygiene supplies as well being the principal source of food for the 'shut in' and low income families. FPSK has seen a forty percent increase in requests for supplemental food in their distribution area. Additional bulk foods are required to meet that need. The funding will be used to purchase bulk foods from area farms, meat processors, and grocers. In addition, a significant part of the funding will be used to keep delivery vans safe and reliable.

Food for Thought Denver

Food for Thought provides PowerSacks (non perishable food between 10 and 13 items) that has enough food to make 8 meals and is also supporting 24 DPS sites that provide breakfast and lunch. Students are encouraged to pickup a PowerSack on Fridays to help alleviate weekend hunger. Currently close to 70,000 meals are distributed per week. This work will be continuing through the summer months, and expenses are expected to increase by $500,000. These funds would be used strictly for program expense (food, bags, bins) as 100% of our overhead expenses are covered by our Board of Directors. This funding will allow Food for Though to keep feeding Denver’s most vulnerable population and eliminate weekend childhood hunger. A $25,000 grant will allow them to purchase 6,250 PowerSacks (50,000 meals).

Food System|Food Equity Coalition

Foodshed Alliance

Foodshed Alliance facilitates a thriving local food economy by organizing and promoting Farmers Markets and Vendors. We work to connect, develop and promote a healthy community by strengthening relationships between local producers and consumers. We aim to educate and expand our authentic, local agriculture and cottage industry; and empower our community to support a thriving, sustainable food system that contributes to the success of the buy-local community. We are the only provider in our area of the Double Up Food Program, which matches SNAP recipients dollar for dollar on fresh fruit and vegetables, allowing low-income consumers the ability to source fresh, nutrient dense food with added buying power. Foodshed Alliance is seeking emergency funding to enable us to purchase the resources necessary to adhere to social distancing guidelines, while providing the essential service of a Farmers Market.

Fort Collins Delivery Network

Fort Collins Delivery Network is about neighbors helping neighbors. The mission of the Fort Collins Delivery Network is to provide at-risk individuals in the Fort Collins Area with access to food, medicine, and other essential supplies via a network of compassionate volunteers. We provide grocery delivery services to anybody who is uncomfortable or unable to leave their homes. Additionally, they have a financial assistance program that helps folks who need these services, but are unable to pay for their supplies. They also partner with local nonprofits such as the Food Bank for Larimer County, and the FoCo Cafe to deliver supplies to their client base. Funding will be used to purchase things to support volunteers and to help achieve all of our goals.

Golden Backpack Program

Golden Backpack Program mission is to feed hungry children and their families in Golden, CO; the need has grown since COVID-19. The program is not only feeding food-insecure students through the Weekend Sack Program, and their families through the Fresh Food Co-op; the program is also helping to feed the entire food-insecure community through our BGoldN initiative. They are working with local restaurants to provide breakfast & lunch M-F and delivering groceries to families without transportation/seniors unable to leave home. Funding would go toward the increased costs of food, staff, and supplies.

Heart & Hand Center

Heat & Hand Center provides out-of-school time programming to students as well as wraparound support to families. H&H requests $9,000 in emergency funding to ensure that students and families served have access to fresh food to meet immediate food access and hunger needs. Funding will provide families with weekly food pick-up, including produce, dairy and eggs, non-perishable food, infant supplies, educational materials, pet supplies, art and academic supplies, and hygiene items.

Help & Hope Center

Help & Hope Center is a 501(c) (3) human service organization whose mission is to meet the immediate needs of residents of Douglas and Elbert counties who are in financial distress and at risk of becoming homeless, to help them work through troublesome times with dignity.we need funding to purchase additional food and toiletry items. 96% of our clients receive these services. If USDA guidelines of 1.2 lbs. per meal at $1.62 per pound are employed, then the per-meal-per-person equates to $1.95. $25,000/$1.95 = 12,820 person-meals. This funding would assist in achieving the goal of supporting all who need it during this difficult time.

Homeward Alliance

Homeward Alliance's mission is to empower individuals and families who face homelessness to survive, move forward and thrive.

Huerfano School District RE-1

Huerfano School District RE-1 is a rural district in southern Colorado with over 61% qualifying for free and reduced meals . They will be serving students, their families, senior citizens and other community residents in need with boxes of shelf stable foods and bags of fresh fruit and vegetables to help during these difficult times. HSD have the ability to operate summer feeding through the state but school workers contracts expire in May, so there is now a need to try to "hire" people to help make and serve the 300 meals that are given out twice a week. There is currently only 1 staffed person.

Jeffco Action Center Inc dba The Action Center

The Action Center typically provides basic needs, case-managed programs, and connections to 20,000+ people a year. Services have been temporarily limited due to COVID-19, and as of 03/16 The Action Center has been offering drive-through/walk-up services for food. Utility and rent assistance are being offered remotely by phone and email. In order to serve the heavy volume of people at our drive-through/walk up and the collaborating agencies, funding is needed to make significantly increased purchases and increased staffing.

Kaizen Food Rescue

Kaizen Food Rescue is a community-wide grassroots organization that is collectively run by diverse constituent-led volunteers. The objective this round is to increase our rapid response capacity to provide healthy food access to 200 older adults in Montbello in partnership with Montbello Walks and Montbello Manor senior living facilities- where 200 older people of color reside in Denver. The funds will help Kaizen Food Rescue provide 7,000 pounds of food per month to 200 older adults living at Montbello Manor. That is equivalent to 5,833 meals per month. The funds will be used towards procuring local food from urban (person of color) farmers and transportation.

Keystone Policy Center

Keystone is working as a fiscal agent for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to establish mechanisms and logistics required to support COVID response efforts, thus helping ensure Tribal Leaders are able to focus on prioritizing the most immediate needs of their people including expedient provision of food and resources. Funds are required immediately to ensure that the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and its individual members have the resources they need to address the food security, education, and mental health issues that the COVID-19 virus has necessitated.

Kids At Their Best

KATB changes the dynamic of rural poverty and low expectations by empowering youth to become successful, productive adults. They work directly and over the long-term with 600 children and youth plus their families, meeting their immediate needs for food, friendship, education and emotional support. . For 12 years, they have connected with these vulnerable children and families, providing meals, art projects, STEM, music, an on-site library and physical activities. Many students come from diverse family backgrounds. Many parents within the community work at the Ft. Morgan meat processing plant, which has had a COVID-19 breakout. Due to the increased fears of undocumented people within the community, extra funds are needed to assist these hidden families. Funds for food and service supplies are urgently needed.

KidsPak/Loveland Rotary Club Foundation Covid 19 Project

KidsPak is a community based organization that has NO paid staff and depends on our 750 dedicated volunteers to operate the program. KidsPak was focused on students. Now they are focused on those affected by the Covid-19 crisis and anticipate to serve 2000 a week instead of the 500 served during non-Covid-19. KidsPak has also increased the amount of food in each bag. KidsPak will use the funding solely to purchase food. They are unable to carry out traditional food drives due to the coronavirus at local food stores, employers and others. The funds will allow KidsPak to buy the food needed primarily from the Food Bank of Larimer County.

Las Animas School District No. RE-1

Las Animas School District RE-1 is leading the effort collaborative with other community partners to keep all children 0-18, parents/guardians, disabled adults, senior citizens and those disproportionately served in the community fed with breakfast and lunch 5 days a week. Delivering food door to door keeping all safer at home during this crisis. This funding will be utilized for pantry food boxes, daily meals, purchasing of special foods as needed for dietary needs, food packaging, sanitation supplies, healthy snacks for children (Saturday-Sunday) and food distribution M-F.

Living Water Ministry Outreach

The goal of Living Water Ministry Outreach is to provide food, resource navigation, education, and life skills to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged residents of Aurora through collaboration and cooperation with nonprofits, private agencies, and individual contributors. Due to the increased demand on emergency food providers, LWMO is no longer able to order from Food Bank of the Rockies. New partnerships have been forged to procure food, but also purchase additional food to meet increased demand. The requested funding would be used to purchase food, bags and boxes, and cleaning and safety supplies.

Loaves & Fishes

Loaves & Fishes has a primary purpose of providing food for individuals and families who might go hungry in Clear Creek and Gilpin County, Colorado. Recent food donations from Safeway, Walmart and other corporations have decreased as a result of COVID-19. Local churches are not open and they are usually a dependable source of donations. Community events where funds are raised have been cancelled. This funding will allow L & F to fill the basic needs of their usual customers as well as the basic needs of individuals and families who have been stripped of all economic security as a result of the devastating effects of CO-VID 19.

Mesa County Public Health

Mesa County Public Health facilitates the Community Transformation Group (CTG), a coalition of individuals and organizations that works in Clifton neighborhoods to improve community outcomes through increased social capital. CTG members will deliver 25-30 emergency food boxes per week to Clifton households whose residents have difficulty obtaining food in other ways during the COVID-19 pandemic due to finances, lack of safe transportation, high-risk household members, or other circumstances.

Metro Ministries, Inc.

Metro Ministries is distributing boxes to over 30 sites two times per month. We have partnered with DHA and Mercy Housing to make this possible. We also run a drive thru pantry at our church Just off of Osceola and Alameda. This pantry operates on Sunday afternoons and Wednesday Evenings. Funding from our previous award has been exhausted. We need additional funding for transportation, food, staff, refrigeration, adding additional locations, and sanitation supplies as they become available.

Miami Yoder School JT 60

The goal for Miami Yoder School is to feed students who are not in school in Eastern Colorado. The funding will help with the cost for food, bags,bus drivers to deliver the food one time a week and it will also help with the funding for the emergency feeding.

Montbello Walks, LLC

Montbello Walks aims to improve/impact the overall health of Montbello residents through weekly exercise programs, provide healthy food options to our elderly/handicap/disabled-veteran community and provide education/information through weekly Healthy Seniors Cooking Classes and Food and Nutrition Workshops. With this funding Montbello Walks will increase their rapid response capacity to provide healthy food access to 200 older adults per day (three times each week) located at the Montbello Manor and the Meadows of Montbello (Volunteers of America) assisted living facilities and over 2,000 low-income older adults monthly. These funds will eliminate food transportation barrier by enabling the 'Food for Seniors' program to procure a used mini-utility van ($8,000) to transport 1,000 pounds of food daily (for years to come). Additionally, Montbello Walks will be able to rent a U-Haul monthly to move 7,000 pounds of food, equivalent to 5,833 meals for the year 2020. They will also be able to recruit and pay up to ten volunteer assistants to load/unload, prepare food boxes and transport them to older adults facing barriers of accessing food and transportation as a result of COVID-19

Morgan County Family Center

Not only does Morgan Co Family Center offer direct financial support and one-on-one advocacy for those in need, they effectively connect folks to local resources and systems of support. If granted, the funds will be used to support folks in the Morgan Co community experiencing a critical need and who have the most limited access to resources.

Mountain Family Center

Mountain Family Center is a family resource center with a mission to build strength and self-reliance for individuals and families through responsive and collaborative services. As a family resource center and community based organization, MFC was poised to take the lead on food, shelter and clothing. MFC will use the funds to supplement hunger relief efforts as well as provide rental assistance so individuals and families remain safely housed. MFC is plowing through its current funding and needs additional funds to keep our pantry shelves stocked, provide housing assistance as well as keeping our driver team employed so they may deliver groceries to senior citizens, individuals with a disability and other high-risk, vulnerable populations.

Now Faith Christian Center

During this COVID-19 pandemic, Now Faith Christian Center has seen numbers quadruple, due to layoffs of low waged worker, gig workers, and those who work in the service industry. Their community has been hit hard and it is imperative that they deliver food to those that are quarantined or highly vulnerable and face health disparities. Currently, Now Faith is providing food boxes every Tuesday and Friday, aiming to feed those families that have been impacted by violence, men and women re-entering our community from incarceration, homeless youth that are struggling in school, and need after school meals and family food boxes for the weekend, as well as students who are out of school.

Outreach United Resource Center

OURC aims to help people move toward self-sufficiency by unifying community resources and are committed to helping families reach or maintain self-reliance. Services include hot meals, emergency groceries, rent and utility assistance, personal care items, minor medical needs, local transportation, budget counseling, and much more. OURC is seeking emergency relief funds to be able to provide groceries, meals and homelessness prevention services to low-income families.

Pueblo Food Project

The purpose of the Pueblo Food Project, in concert with a diverse group of stakeholders, is to identify opportunities and challenges in the food value chain, research and develop actionable plans, inspire change and connect resources. They collectively work toward developing a local food system that creates positive community development and economic growth. This funding will be used for two primary activities. First PFP will purchase CSA shares on behalf of participants of the WIC program. Then, PFP will sell that ground beef exclusively to hunger relief organizations in the county who are already experiencing animal protein scarcities.

Roaring Fork School District

The mission of the Roaring Fork School District is to ensure that every student develops the enduring knowledge, skills and character to thrive in a changing world. The health and safety of children in our community are always of the utmost importance. As we are addressing basic and emergency needs and in light of the COVID crisis, food insecurity is one of our top concerns for vulnerable families in our community. We are aligned with existing food-service programs and efforts in our community (Lift-Up, Food Bank of the Rockies, etc.); however, because the need is so great, the Roaring Fork School District is providing free, nutritious meals to all children during the school closure. Each child 18 years of age and under in Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs can receive one breakfast and one lunch per day, Monday through Friday. We are so grateful for this funding allocation to support this program.

Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence

SPAN is the domestic violence non-profit serving Boulder and Broomfield counties, providing some of the only shelter beds for DV survivors in a service area with a population of more than 375,000. SPAN is seeking additional support from the Blueprint to End Hunger’s COVID Relief Fund to help fund the unique and critical food support that SPAN is providing to extremely vulnerable and routinely underserved populations of domestic violence survivors in Boulder and Broomfield counties. Most of SPAN’s long-term Transitional Services Program clients have been financially impacted, losing their livelihoods, often the type of contract or “gig” employment that makes them ineligible for immediate relief. Many of these clients are also at-risk and reluctant to leave their homes due to safety issues related to the domestic violence, pre-existing health concerns, immigration issues and a lack of transportation.

Saint George Episcopal Mission and the Lake County School District

The mission of CECAA is to stabilize families and move them out of poverty. Our food programs provides nutritious food to 300 families with low in come in Lincoln County. We anticipate growth in participation due to the impact of COVID-19 on employment in the area. We offer utility payment assistance and free income tax preparation. We will use the funding to help us maintain staffing of our seven employees in order to continue our food program and leverage other funding streams toward programmatic needs.

Second Chance Center

Formerly incarcerated people visit our pantry and in addition to staples, we provide a week’s worth of homemade re-heatable meals at one visit. These people miss the companionship of the daily lunch gathering at SCC, but do enjoy knowing the food has been specially prepared for them. We deliver those same homemade meals and staples to the people being released from prison under the governor’s orders, and our mobile pantry also supplies residents of our supportive housing program. These people are exceptionally vulnerable; some are elderly, many are in poor health from living on the streets and/or serving long prison sentences, and we have single-parent families with young children.

SECORCares

SECORCares is committed to breaking the chains of suburban poverty by building a community of caring people working together to end suburban poverty while restoring hope in the lives of those we serve. SECORCares has shifted their free food market model to a drive thru concept since the inception of this pandemic to minimize contact and efficiently serve more hungry people. They also have a mobile free food market that is taking into areas to feed people who can't physically access the market (isolated senior citizens, high density/low income housing, and school aged children especially). With funding from this grant, SECORCares would be able to quickly purchase the food and resources to meet the growing needs, and ensure the most vulnerable people in their community are being fed and taken care of.

Seed Peace

The goal of Seed Peace is to expand the availability of health giving food to people in need while increasing community resilience through the building of a community seed supply and the training of new young farmers. With this funding Seed Peace, with help from their partners at Wild Mountain Seeds and Sunfire Ranch, will be able to dedicate produce and other food products already being produced on the farm to the hunger relief efforts in the region. The funding will go directly to covering the operating costs associated with the growing of the food on the research farm. This funding will allow all produce to be donated to food banks while the organization pays their farmers very modest wages (25k/year).

Somebody Cares Project

Somebody Cares Project provides delivered food box's to the Trinidad community and also a mini food pantry in Cokedale. They also set up a food give away in Starkville every two weeks. There are people in rural ares that need food. SCP maybe be the only resource they have. The funding will supply more vehicle's to travel to at risk areas in Las Animas county with the much needed food. The funding can furnish the large amounts of food needed as Las Animas is the largest county in Colorado. It will also furnish the funds needed for gas to get the vehicles out to area's in need.

Springs Rescue Mission

Serving adults experiencing homelessness in Colorado Springs, SRM has provided uninterrupted shelter, nutritious meals, and day center services to a growing number of homeless adults. While addressing food insecurity, SRM also educates guests on ways to protect themselves from the spread of illness and provides hygiene services to help guests stay healthy. With the closure of other services, SRM has seen a sustained 25% increase in those seeking meals and shelter, and a 100% sustained increase in those seeking day shelter services.

The Crystal River Valley Nonprofit Food Co-op

We will be providing high quality, organically farmed and as locally sourced as possible food from The North Fork Valley and The Crystal River Valley to the neediest students of the community's 'Alternative' schools and their families. In addition we'll provide educational material relating to the proven science of adapting a 'Diet, Exercise, and Integrative medicine' lifestyle protocol as an effective means of reversing Obesity, Diabetes, and Cancer.

Town of Oak Creek Kids Program

The Town of Oak Creek Kids Program will be providing nutritional meals and snacks in a rural area, as well as supporting not only campers during this time but also any other child in the community who are in need. TOCK Program will be purchasing a good portion of our food locally from surrounding farms and vendors to help support our local economy as well. Funding will specifically be used to purchase food from local farms and vendors to support their businesses.

Tri-County Health Network

Tri-County Health Network (TCHNetwork) collaborates with our communities to improve health for everyone. With funding, TCHNetwork will mobilize a volunteer force to prepare and deliver meals to 60+ youth in the Telluride R-1 School District who are facing food insecurity 5 days/week. If awarded this funding, TLC would be able to direct unrestricted funds to other necessary expenses, such as payroll for staff and financial assistance for clients, and use this funding to purchase food.

Tri-Lakes Cares

Tri-Lakes Cares is a community-based, volunteer-supported, resource center whose mission is to improve people’s lives through emergency, self-sufficiency, and relief programs. The goal of Tri-Lakes Cares is to improve the quality of people's lives by providing emergency, relief, and self-sufficiency services. Tri-Lakes Cares accomplishes this by ensuring that economically disadvantaged households have access to essential needs such as food, housing, medical care, and financial assistance to keep them healthy and safe. Low-income households are often forced to choose between putting food on the table or keeping the lights on, between getting medical care or paying the rent. Tri-Lakes Cares helps resolve these difficult choices by providing access to basic services. TLC needs this funding to ensure that the vulnerable, economically disadvantaged households in northern El Paso County have access to food

Valley Organic Senior Lunch Program

Valley Organic Senior Lunch Program is a grassroots, volunteer program to provide meals for our valley’s seniors. The program offers a healthy & nutritious lunch for 40 to 70 seniors 60 and older two times a month. Presently do not have staff or funding to increase our capacity. Since the Corvid crisis meals are provided as take out or delivered to seniors who are not mobile. Funding would be used to purchase bulk food store-able supplies to replenish completely depleted stocks.

WeeCycle

Founded in 2008, WeeCycle strives to improve the welfare of families and their children raised in poverty. We collect, “weecycle” and match essential baby gear - including baby formula, food and diapers - to families in need through our 50 plus nonprofit partner organizations focused on alleviating poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, teen pregnancy and under-employment as well as organizations serving immigrants and refugees. By “weecycling” baby gear, we help keep children clean and safe and contribute to a healthier environment for their future. (1) to distribute 250 cans of baby formula per week, (2) to expand the reach of our resources to serve those living in rural communities throughout the state, including those in Summit, El Paso, Pueblo, Teller, Clear Creek, Weld, Larimer and Elbert counties (3) to serve approximately 3,300 children over the next 6 weeks. We will measure success through ongoing evaluation of our response efforts to determine their effectiveness and efficiency.

Wild Gal’s Market

Wild Gal's Market - a healthy food store offering fresh local produce, organic everything and delicious homemade food for busy families and travelers on the go... This is the place to source the ingredients for your own recipes or indulge in a variety of homemade meals, baked goodies, as well as health & beauty care products. Funding would be used to hire at least 2 employees to help manage the store and to cook the food.

Youth Employment Academy/Osage Cafe

Osage Cafe is a youth culinary academy that provides culinary skills training and then provides on the job skills training to support successful transition to employment. As Osage Cafe's restaurant has changed since COVID-19 the methods of running the cafe have changed to incorporate low cost or pay what you can method for food provided there. This funding will be used to hire at least 2 employees to help manage the store and to cook the food. It would also be used to purchase some equipment .