GRANTEES - FIFTH ROUND

Alamosa School District

Alamosa School District is in the San Luis Valley Southwest Colorado, and are using school buses to deliver food so for children. The school district first set up a nutrition hot line number to communicate any issues, concerns or a families needing food. There are currently 16 feeding spots marketed to parents by email, text, school communication, flyers, and social media. With input from families they continue to make changes that best fits the community's needs.

Atlas Preparatory School

Atlas goes beyond a school as a hub for community services in Colorado Springs. Atlas has served the most vulnerable members of our community since 2009. Over 97% of Atlas families live within HSD2, an economically depressed area with limited opportunities for gainful employment, reliable public transportation or access to community resources. Consequently, our students are significantly at-risk during a time like this. 93.5% of our students qualify to receive free or reduced lunch. Atlas meets nutritional needs by partnering with our food provider and our bus transportation provider to distribute meals to Atlas families in need. Funds will help provide approximately 1,000, supplement fuel costs, and supplement the cost of wages for food workers and bus drivers. Meals are distributed at Atlas bus stops.

Aurora-Arapahoe Battered Women's Shelter dba Gateway Deomstic Violence Services

Gateway Domestic Violence Services operates the only domestic-violence specific shelters in all or Aurora and Arapahoe County. They serve adults and children fleeing from domestic violence and experiencing homelessness. 100% of their clientele are low-income and the majority do not have private insurance or equitable access to food resources. They are the only organization that works with this niche population. 54% of their clientele identify from communities of color. Funding will be used to provide an additional 5,400 meals to their program participants over 2-3 months.

Bread of Life Community Outreach

Bread of Life serves the hungry, the poor, those in need and the lost. They distribute donated fresh foods, hygiene necessities, kids and adult clothing and shoes. They serve homeless, seniors, veterans, low income areas and populations throughout Weld County. Due to COVID-19, Bread of Life needs assistance with operating costs, food purchasing, delivery expenses, and storage costs at this crucial time when their donations have plummeted. Despite the COVID-19 barriers, they are providing over 20,000 meals weekly although their is even greater need still being unmet.

Boulder County Farmers Markets

We are a nonprofit organization operating producer-only farmers markets in Colorado since 1987. Our mission is to support, promote and expand local agriculture, making fresh products accessible to our community and strengthening relationships between local food producers and food consumers.

Boulder Valley School District Food Services

School closures due to COVID-19 have a direct impact on Boulder Valley School District students and families. Funding will be used to support Boulder Valley School District food services to ensure families receive nutritious meals and to provide supplies that contribute to a successful at-home learning environment. Each week roughly 17,0000 emergency meals are distributed in food bags to families, and the district has distributed 330,000+ meals to date.

Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley

Boys & Girls Club of the San Luis Valley gives members a safe,supportive,and enriching space to empower them to achieve their greatest potential. They have prioritized their food services to reduce hunger in youth and families experiencing food insecurity. At the current capacity with continued need, Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley will serve 3,900 snacks and 3.900 Free or Reduced Breakfast and Lunch to children age 6 - 18 daily during the summer months of June, July, and August when school is not in session.

Center Consolidated Schools, 26JT

Center Consolidated schools will use this funding to support efforts to provide daily breakfast and lunch to thestudent population. In addition, this will support providing weekly food bags for dinners and weekend food to homeless students/families. This includes providing funding for food, staff to prep and bag the food, and for food deliveries. This funding will support staff to prep and prepare food bags with daily breakfasts and lunches for the school week available to all students in the district. They will also provide a food pick-up for the whole week on Mondays from 10 AM-1 PM. In addition, staff will purchase and prep food baskets for our homeless families. This is about 160 food bags.

Center for Rural Outreach and Public Services, Inc.

Center for Rural Outreach and Public Services partners with the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (UMUT) to meet UMUT members basic need for food and water. 100% of the funds go directly to the Tribe to purchase food to provide for Ute Mountain Ute Tribe elders, veterans, families, and employees who have lost their jobs.

Cherry Hills Community Church

Manna Care serves those living in poverty, including but not limited to seniors, those with disabilities and the immune-compromised in Douglas, Arapahoe, and surrounding counties. During COVID-19, we have increased assistance to Douglas County residents by 250%, seeing new guests that have been specifically impacted by this pandemic through job loss, furlough, and recurring stabilization costs such as mortgage or rent payments and utilities. This funding will help Manna Care to offset the cost of food necessary to meet the increased need.

Clifton Christian Church Food and Clothing

With the new and uncharted COVID-19 Pandemic they find themselves in need of funding immediately. Clifton Christian Church Food and Clothing is proud and honored to be an EMERENCY RELIEF AGENCY for Mesa County and surrounding counties. They are a church food bank that does not have any paid staff and operates fully on volunteer staff, donations, and much grace from the community. Here is a look into program increases due to COVID-19. March 2019, they provided nutritious food to 1,124 individuals, 485 households and 92 new households. March 2020 COVID-19 1,741 individuals,685 households, and 207 new households that have never received services from CCC Food and Clothing. With this comes a huge task of providing well balanced nutritious food for so many more than they budgeted for.

Cloud City Conservation Center

This funding will ensure that Cloud City Conservation Center (C4) has the capacity to continue to support the food response to the COVID-19 crises in Lake County, CO while also actively working towards Food Justice and Health Equity in our community. Since March 18th C4’s Executive Director has coordinated and led the food response in our community by: 1. Creating and coordinating the Lake County Food Task Force in partnership with Lake County Build a Generation. 2. Stepping in to act as an interim director of operations for St George Episcopal Church’s Community Meals program, quickly expanding operations to ensure that our community’s emergency food needs were met. 3. Launching our county’s first ever grocery delivery program, free to anyone living in Lake County and one of the first food delivery programs launched in response to COVID-19 in Colorado. 4. Turning Cloud City Farm’s CSA into a donation based farm stand so that everyone in our community has access to healthy food. Advocating on both a local and state level for food access during the COVID-19 crisis. To date, through these efforts, we have sourced and distributed over 100,000 pounds of food to feed 12,315 duplicated individuals in our community.

Colorado Changemakers Collective / Colectiva Creando Cambios en Colorado

The Colectiva Creando Cambios en Colorado was created in 2018 with a long-term vision of community transformation that was grounded in the belief that those most affected by social inequalities must be central to the work that has to be done. This is a community-driven initiative that addresses health inequity in the immigrant community. CCC programming provides critical support to the immigrant community and develops resiliency and ability to care for itself as a community.

Commún

Commún builds community resilience through relationships and programs that center community voice, cultivate a sense of belonging, and realize equity. During this unprecedented time, Commún provides 12,000+ lbs of free food in drive-through and delivery boxes to over 700 community members in Southwest Denver per week.

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.

Community Partnership Family Resource Center

CP switched operations from delivering programming to families to serving as an emergency hub for the community the same day schools announced closures. CP’s office has been receiving food and supplies donations since many food banks, churches, and all schools are closed. CP has extended business hours to Monday to Friday, 8am-5pm for food deliveries and pick-ups, assembling food boxes, volunteer coordination, and to manage phones. As food supplies are collected at CP, food boxes are made; boxes are either delivered or picked up curbside outside CP’S offices to address transportation barriers and access. CP estimates serving 58 meals daily to positively impact families and children in need of food and resources.

Cooperating Ministry of Logan County (CMLC)

Cooperating Ministry of Logan County has been serving as a non-profit since 1981. CMLC works to provide coordinated emergency resources and assistance to those in need in 11 rural cities in Logan County. Through our food pantry programs our largest efforts are accomplished by aiding approximately 240 households per month. CMLC is not just the largest full scale food pantry in Logan County, but we also assist in homelessness intervention/prevention, act as a traveler's aid, utility assistance programs, transportation assistance program, medical equipment program, medical/RX assistance program and emergency housing assistance. CMLC is continually focused on increasing collaborations and partnerships that provide relevant services with accountability to Logan County residents.

Denver Food Rescue

Denver Food Rescue is requesting funding to continue providing healthy food access to those affected by food insecurity, barriers and inequity. In response to COVID-19 and adherence to the Center for Disease Control, the State of Colorado and City of Denver, 10-No Cost Grocery Programs were suspended. With the City of Denver slowly and strategically reopening, DFR anticipates the reopening of partner community agencies. Funds will be utilized to ensure that reopening NCGP have Personal Protection Equipment, safety markers, best practices distribution methods training, bags and/or boxes in which to distribute food, program materials, transportation barrier assistance and supplemental healthy food sources. Supplemental healthy food sources are required because of the uncertainty of donations. Food distribution agencies who are transitioning from lower demand and higher waste, to higher demand and lower waste, are now anticipating the leveling of the curve and their place in the food recovery systems. DFR wants to be able to continue to support its No Cost Grocery Programs in a way that is mindful of social distancing protocols, and needs additional grant funding to do so.

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.

Dolores County Senior Services

Dolores County Senior Services provides services to individuals over 60 years old. Since the Pandemic our program has more than tripled it's meal delivery service to these individuals.

Eagle Valley Community Foundation

The Community Market (TCM) operates a valley-wide food distribution network through two brick and mortar locations (Gypsum and Edwards) and 5 weekly pop-up markets in vulnerable neighborhoods. We are proud to be a no barriers pantry with a choice shopping model. TCM emphasizes sustainability in our food system through local food purchasing (est 60,000 lbs in 2020) and food rescue (14 locations weekly). Due to COVID, demand for our service has quadrupled, and we currently provide 7 meals per 4,000 individuals per week.

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 and senior 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.

FoCo Cafe

During normal circumstances, a substantial portion of FoCo Cafe's operating budget comes from daily dining operations. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, they have had to temporarily close our dining room. Therefore, in order to support the most under-resourced members of our community, they need additional funding to procure food and to pay staff for their time spent preparing food. As they are typically a dine-in establishment, they may need to purchase additional resources to help facilitate meal deliveries, although they are working to acquire additional necessary equipment such as thermal bags from local entities such as Meals on Wheels in Loveland.

Focus Points Family Resource Center

Focus Points provides a wide array of services to families with low incomes. This funding will be used in multiple areas, to address multiple, priority needs expressed to us directly by the community, as well as from needs expressed by the community to organizations we partner with. Focus Points' Family and Community Development team’s goal is to refer community members to appropriate service providers to meet their needs, including other Focus Points programs. We received requests from 700 community residents for assistance with unemployment, housing, utilities, transportation, and food access.

Food System|Food Equity Coalition

The onset of COVID-19 is creating a major challenge to the rural mountain community with the loss of jobs and limited access to food. Archuleta County food pantries have provided food support to a steadily growing number of individuals and families for nearly 30 years. Today, the pantries find their funds depleted to purchase food to meet the needs of their existing clients and those presenting with emergent food needs. With the pandemic, close to 275 individuals/families are being served per week. Previously, the six food pantries were serving about half of this number at an estimated cost of $7,650/month. This amount has more than doubled ($16,000/month) making it cost prohibitive with potential impact on service. Additional funding is needed for the pantries to continue to feed their affected community members during this unprecedented time.

Gilpin County Food Pantry

Gilpin Food Pantry provides food assistance, as well as a slate of other financial/case management services for people with low incomes. This funding will help their food pantry to be able to continue to help their community through the food pantry, summer lunch program, the senior program and the need for assistance for their most vulnerable. The food pantry strives to be a place for anyone in the community to get assistance with food. Gilpin County is a food desert and they have used the prior funds to bring in fresh produce, perishables and meat to their clientele. They have been focusing on homebound clients, but their summer meals program has also tripled in volume compared to previous years.

Growing Gardens

Over the last 20 years, Growing Gardens has brought sustainable agriculture education and food donations to over 136,000 Boulder County residents. Our programs empower people of all ages, income levels, and abilities by reconnecting them with their local food systems and teaching gardening, cooking, and nutrition education. Each year we donate over 20,000 pounds of fresh produce, as well as 30,000 plant starts to low income community members to impart greater food security and hunger relief in our community.

Herbal Garden Wellness

At Herbal Garden Wellness (HGW) we hold over 19 agreements with Colorado's Native Urban and Detribalized Native communities to ensure that this vulnerable population has adequate access to culturally competent wellness services and basic provisions. HGW enlists, educates, and trains Advocates to assess and support socially isolated elders and other quarantined susceptible populations/communities through tele- health services and resource coordination including medial supplies/prescriptions, food, and other basic provisions. In this way HGW operates as an Emergency Management Coordinator for Colorado's Native populations. Resources are delivered utilizing tele-health, direct mail, door step deliveries, and with a network of volunteers who support the acquisition and delivery of bulk provisions to Native communities. HGW's coordination of services/resources and culturally competent, nimble, community centered approach to service delivery continues to be the foundational COVID response mechanism for Colorado's Native communities. During these COVID times HGW has supported the coordination and dissemination of medical supplies, food, wellness education, and other culturally relevant services that are keeping Colorado's Native communities (particularly our most vulnerable elder population) safe and responsive during these unprecedented times.

Hilltop Health Services Corp dba Hilltop Community Resources

Hilltop’s mission is People First- Making a difference, one individual at a time. Hilltop’s 29 programs are dedicated to underserved populations in Mesa, Delta, Montrose, and Ouray counties while providing services that are comprehensive, family-focused, and supported by community collaboration. Hilltop’s mission is People First- Making a difference, one individual at a time. Hilltop’s 29 programs are dedicated to underserved populations in Mesa, Delta, Montrose, and Ouray counties while providing services that are comprehensive, family-focused, and supported by community collaboration. Hilltop’s SNAP enrollment project will inform, involve, collaborate and empower individuals and families to enroll in SNAP. Mesa County is suffering huge economic burdens from COVID-19 and the county was already dealing with the high incidence of suicide, domestic violence and child abuse. . Staff will assist families with enrollment along with identifying and providing other services and needs.

Homeward Alliance

Homeward Alliance focuses on providing services to families and individuals who are housing insecure. Funding will be used to provide food at the Murphy Center for Hope and staff costs to connect people experiencing homelessness to public benefits including SNAP and WIC. Homeward Alliance expects to serve about 150 people per day, distributing a “to-go” breakfast bag comprised of shelf-stable, non-perishable foods, fresh fruit and coffee. At about $2 per meal (cost beyond food obtained by donations, 150 meals per day, 5 days per week) they expect to spend $18,000 over about three months. Additional funding will be used for staff costs associated with our Benefit Navigator. This temporary staff person, funded in part by the Larimer County Office for Aging, will assist guests in enrolling for public benefits on-site at the Murphy Center, using the Colorado PEAK on-line system.

Integrated Family Community Services (IFCS)

IFCS provides basic human services and enrichment programs to low-income people, using community resources. Helping provide support to our families in need as well as keeping our team members safe is at the core of what we do-56 years strong! In response to the economic shutdown that followed the coronavirus outbreak, IFCS quickly implemented several important changes to our services to meet the growing need and maintain a high-level of safety. One major change was the pivot from offering a free food market where shoppers choose items that fit their needs to providing pre-packaged food boxes to ensure the health and safety of clients and staff. Funding from the Colorado COVID-19 Emergency Hunger Relief Fund helped the organization change its programming by increasing its capacity to store fresh produce, fresh milk and frozen meat that is delivered in ready-to-go boxes. Specifically, funding secured a walk-in refrigerator/freezer rental unit with the ability to house an additional 378 boxes weekly. Food boxes are distributed Monday through Friday with special drive-thru service Wednesday at our Englewood location.

Jeffco Eats

Jeffco Eats focuses on providing nutritious food to children with low incomes. The summer meal program in Jefferson County is only providing breakfast and lunch for children 5 days a week and as a result Jeffco Eats are providing additional food to cover dinners and food for the weekends. Jeffco Eats provides a healthy, diverse menu of options to ensure the best possible nutritional content so children grow up with a well-rounded and nourishing diet and everyone stays healthy during this crisis. Jeffco Eats will leverage funding for its COVID-19 food distribution program in collaboration with Jefferson County School District, which has now extended its school food program through August 14th at eleven school hub sites. Jeffco Eats delivers between 1,000 and 1,500 totes a week to all sites and expects this number to climb to 2,000 a week in the near future.

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.

Living Water Ministry Outreach

Living Water Ministry Outreach has fed people in need along the East Colfax corridor in Aurora and Denver. Through mobile outreach, they provide sack lunches, water, additional food, clothing, supplies, and resource navigation to people experiencing homelessness, day laborers, immigrants, refugees, people living in motels, low income families and individuals, older adults, and people of color.

Longmont Meals on Wheels

Longmont Meals on Wheels helps frail older people and people with disabilities with proper, affordable nutrition so that they can stay self-sufficient in their own homes for as long as possible. LMOW cancelled all community lunches, but people who were regular clients at those locations, may now receive meals delivered to their homes. Longmont Meals on Wheels also sent out emergency preparedness bags to clients with about a week’s worth of shelf stable items. The City of Longmont identified LMOW as an essential service and told the agency to implement a worse-case scenario should kitchen staff need to be quarantined. This mandate has required that the agency collaborate with local restaurants now so that they are prepared to step in should LMOW's kitchen need to close to quarantine. LMOW is now delivering a week’s worth of food but only one day per week, on Mondays, instead of five days per week. Most or all meals will be frozen for clients to heat up as they need throughout the week. Longmont Meals on Wheels will continue this model at least through June, and has been told to prepare for up to 18 months of social distancing recommendations for older people.

Metro Ministries, Inc

Metro Ministries strives to address food insecurity. With the virus outbreak, Metro Ministries has seen a 5 fold increase in the number of households needing food. We are responding to that need. Since the outbreak of the virus, Metro Ministries has served nearly 9000 families.

Movement 5280

Movement 5280’s mission is to provide a "family of support" to homeless youth who have aged out of foster care and other at-risk young people lacking guidance as they transition to adulthood. During the Covid crisis, Movement 5280 has been feeding any Englewood-area residents experiencing hunger and homelessness rather than focusing solely on youth. Additionally, Movement 5280 is now open 6 days/week rather than 3 days, offering food, hygiene kits, and a hand-washing station (all provided outside of 5280’s building).

PlatteForum

PlatteForum is providing food to high school teens who participate in the organization’s year-round, paid arts-education internship program, ArtLab. ArtLab teen interns are primarily from historically marginalized populations, most are eligible for free or reduced lunch, over half are LGBTQ+, and a few are DACA students. As many of the ArtLab interns were struggling with food insecurity prior to the pandemic, PlatteForum routinely provided healthy snacks and meals during after-school and summer program activities. With in-person activities on hold, teens are no longer receiving this food. PlatteForum will use the grant funding to provide $400/month in grocery store gift cards to a minimum of 48 households.

Prairie Family Center

Prairie Family Center has seen a rise in client need since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. PFC assists families and individuals that have been affected by the virus due to job loss with rent, utilities, food, and necessities. PFC will also provide proper PPE and salaries for employees in order to assist clients. The impact that this funding will create is phenomenal. It will help people when they need it most. The barriers that are foreseen are slight barriers that will be overcome by PFC staff. Some clients affected will require home deliveries during the quarantine. Staff, despite the obvious risk, will be wearing proper COVID-19 attire (masks and gloves) and will adhere to social distancing guidelines when delivering items to assist clients.

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.

Small Town Project

This funding will support the Rocky Ford Food Share Project in providing healthy food assistance to at-need families including the low-income, rural, immigrant undocumented, senior/disabled, and quarantined/isolated people in and around Rocky Ford and Otero/Crowley Counties in Southeast Colorado. By working with local farmers and ranchers to get fresh food while boosting the local economy, and leveraging bulk food distributors we will be able to deliver food boxes to thousands of families in southeast Colorado.

Struggle of Love Foundation

Struggle of Love Foundation is deeply engaged in the Montbello and Far Northeast community -- we live and work in the community and our approach to our work is driven by our relationships and ongoing dialogue with the people who are our colleagues, neighbors, and friends. Since we launched the drive-thru food pantry we have managed to server over 25k residence 40% of those residence are children, 23% are seniors and disable residence and 37 % are adults. We have also made over 600 deliveries to seniors, disable residence and families without adequate transportation.

Tennyson Center for Children

Tennyson provides education, community-based, residential, and other therapeutic interventions for neglected, abused, and traumatized children. We are currently seeing foster families terminating their arrangement due to the COVID-19 crisis and are literally dropping foster children off to be returned to the system. Many families have lost jobs, are in crisis, and believe they no longer can afford to maintain the family placement of their foster child, resulting in great trauma to these youth. Our ability to work with families before they reach a crisis point is integral to helping them maintain family stability. This includes helping them access food. Many believe they can no longer afford to feed their foster youth and this is precipitating the return of children to foster care.

The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools, Inc.

The Success Foundation is proud to be the foundation for Greeley-Evans School District 6. We exist to build partnerships, engage the community, and bring resources together to support the education of our students. Many students depend on their school for daily nutrition but immediately lost this opportunity when COVID-19 caused buildings to close. Providing proper nutrition is crucial to the health and well-being of our students and contributes to overall educational success. Fortunately, the District 6 Nutrition Services Department was able to mobilize their operation quickly to ensure our students did not go without when schools closed, and are continuing to serve our children through the summer. While insufficient access to healthy food at home has been an issue for our youth population, the need has become greater as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The Success Foundation is honored to support the work of the District 6 Nutrition Services Department which aims to help end hunger in our community, particularly among our youth population.

Tin Shed

Tin Shed serves families in food crisis by providing healthy food while eliminating food waste. They are seeking funding to help with the increase cost of running their local food pantry. They are distributing 20,000 to 35,000 lbs of food weekly, and the grand funding will be used to buy new storage equipment as well as help pay the gas expense for their delivery drivers.

Twin Parishes Food Bank

Twin Parishes Food Bank has witnessed a 35-50% increase in clients (possibly higher) since COVID-19 restrictions began as they are one of the Food Bank of the Rockies Emergency sites that will remain open throughout the crisis. They want to be able to serve as many people as possible and have needed to purchase technology, additional food, and we have had to increase time of personnel in order to shift operations to a method that can serve the maximum amount of people efficiently and safely as well as coordinate with other food banks and agency case workers as they provide more food for case workers bringing it to their home bound clients through MHCD, Benefits in Action, St. Francis center, and others. They are currently providing food distributions for up to 100 client families each day they are open, serving over 600 families in March and those numbers are rising.

Valley Organic Senior Lunch Program a program of The Lamborn Foundation

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.

Vision Charter Academy

Food for Thought is a service learning program of Vision Charter Academy. The students and staff fill and deliver an average of 300 bags of weekend food for the other 8 schools in our district. The program operates during the school year and also offers Friday pickup during the summer.