SIXTH ROUND GRANTEES
Kavod Senior Life
The primary goal of Kavod’s Food and Hygiene Pantry is to support a vulnerable population of low-income older adult residents who have decreased access and fewer options for food due to COVID-19. Kavod’s pantry fills a gap for residents that have been quarantined since the onset of the pandemic.
American Heart Association - Denver
The AHA’s mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. Working through the principle of equity always, the Healthy Farmer’s Markets aim to build marketplaces that foster community while offering affordable, fresh food and a variety of healthy resources.
Dove Creek Care and Share Food Pantry, Inc.
At Dove Creek Care and Share Food Pantry, our core purpose is to bridge the gap between hunger and abundance. Our mission is to provide food, partnering opportunities, and education to combat hunger and food insecurity in Southwestern Colorado communities. Our vision is an end to hunger in Southwestern Colorado and provide additional needed services and opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center dba Benefits in Action
The goal of our Emergency Food Delivery Program is to supply food to those who are unable to access food due to age, frailty, medical conditions, or finances. We are currently trying to meet this need with the help of our many community partners and dozens of volunteers.
Community Foundation serving SW CO
The Community Foundation works to increase efficiency, sustainability, and success for area nonprofits. During Covid, we have provided food to 25+ food assistance npos. We seek to permanently improve our region’s food assistance capability by strengthening and systematizing the collaborative network and local purchasing adopted during COVID.
Community Services of Broomfield, dba Broomfield FISH
Broomfield FISH is a Food Bank and Family Resource Center serving Broomfield County whose mission is to meet our neighbors’ basic human needs. During the pandemic, we are helping to stabilize residents and prevent hunger and homelessness.
Denver Sisters Circle
The Denver Sisters Circle is a Denver-based cultural organization of over 1200 African American women focused on the empowerment, growth, health and wellness of women of color in Colorado. The group supports these women through the distribution and delivery of food and other essentials items.
Family & Intercultural Resource Center
The Family & Intercultural Resource Center (FIRC) promotes stable families. By ensuring that basic needs are met, families can then focus on developing key life skills, social connections, a strong bond with their children, and greater resiliency. This wrap around approach supports long-term stability.
St. George Episcopal Church
Since 1995, St. George Episcopal Church has been building community through food, providing nourishing meals and a food pantry in a welcoming, safe and open environment to anyone in Lake County regardless of circumstance. Because many factors contribute to food insecurity and in order to build community, all food programs are open to any residents. Thus by welcoming everybody, we are better able to serve our community and diminish the stigma surrounding hunger.
Livewell Colorado
The short-term goal of CNIP is to increase immediate opportunities for food-insecure Coloradans to access high-quality, local produce on a regular basis from community partners, such as direct from the farm or at a local food hub, while driving dollars to those growers hit hard by COVID.
Community Food Bank
The mission of the Community Food Bank is to provide a short-term supply of nutritious food, and access to available hunger relief services, to any Mesa County community member experiencing need.
Boulder County Farmers Markets
To provide the highest quality food to the members in our community who need it most.
All American Families DBA Families Plus
For 21 years, Families Plus (FP) has served the most vulnerable children in rural, low income Delta County, helping families access critical services. Our overall goal is to help lift families out of the cycle of poverty. FP provides wraparound services to over 200 children and family members, striving to link youth to preventative health care, education & treatment. During this time of crisis, our population has been exponentially affected. They struggle with housing and food stability.
Denver Indian Center
To empower American Indian, youth, elders, families, and community by promoting self-determination and economic, mental, and physical health through education, advocacy, and cultural enrichment.
Food Connect Colorado
Our mission is reducing food waste by sharing reclaimed food with people in need in our local community. Our goal is to have a client choice food pantry in Aurora that is open multiple days a week. However, Covid-19 restrictions require we serve clients pre-packaged food boxes in a drive-up pantry.
Saguache Works, Inc.
Our mission is to promote a healthy community and habits by providing access to healthy, organic and local food, and to help create jobs.
We are an important local option for healthy food to our rural population, including many in the “high risk” group for COVID 19. Our discounts make healthy food more affordable.
Amazing Grace Community Church
We are feeding those that need a little help during this pandemic. We have been working with the USDA and Food Bank of the Rockies to offer several feeding program options. As the rapid growth has caused us to reallocate revenue sources to help with our programs, we find that in order to serve more people consistently, our program is changing to include local pick-up at the pantry, delivery to elderly and shut-ins, and now fresh snack items for school aged children.
Fighting to Farm
Fighting to Farm’s mission is to end hunger and food insecurity in underrepresented, underserved rural communities in Colorado. We procure meat and produce directly from local farmers and ranchers for distribution and delivery to low-income seniors, people of color, and people with disabilities.
Mountain Resource Center
The mission of Mountain Resource Center is to strengthen its community with services that empower people. Mountain Resource Center (MRC) provides basic needs assistance, workforce services, parent support and early childhood education opportunities, and veteran reintegration support.
Lamborn Foundation/Valley Organic Senior Lunch Program
We feed over 40 seniors at each event aged 60 to 92. We either deliver or provide pick up to at risk families or home-bound seniors. Each meal is customized to the participants' specific dietary needs. Food quantity is sufficient to supply one person potentially 2 meals. Presently, all our meals are "curbside pickup" or delivered. We create critical partnerships with our local farmers and ranchers to provide highly nourishing, fresh foods, prepared from scratch.
Kaizen Food Rescue (KFR)
KFR is a BIPOC & womxn-led grassroots organization. Since March, we formed a cohort to launch 6 mobile food pantries- we now have 8 sites in SW Denver (Sheridan, Englewood/S Platte, Westwood, Harvey Park, College View, Athmar Park, Valverde & Mar Lee) & 3 sites in Montbello. We intentionally purchase produce from BIPCO farmers, e.g. Frontline Farming, & hire local promotoras (community health workers) & Groundwork Denver youths to manage the pop-ups in food apartheid areas of metro Denver.
Focus Points Family Resource Center
Lost City Market provides affordable access to healthy, seasonal produce through a pay-how-you-can farmer’s market. The market is located in Globeville and is focused on advertising in specific Denver neighborhoods with low-income populations who live in a food desert.
Kids At Their Best
KATB changes the dynamic of rural poverty and low expectations by empowering youth to become successful, productive adults. We 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.
The GrowHaus
To cultivate community-driven food justice through education and food access.
Hope Communities
Hope Communities’ mission is to strengthen communities and provide pathways to economic and personal opportunity through affordable housing, educational programs and support services. We serve 1,100+ low-income individuals annually with housing, resource navigation, wrap-around services and customized programs.
Food System|Food Equity Coalition
The FS|FE Coalition works to create a healthy and sustainable food system for all residents of Archuleta county using a participatory approach to advance food equity for all community members.
Mile High Behavioral Healthcare
Since 1960, Mile High Behavioral Healthcare has been dedicated to empowering individuals in shaping healthy, viable, complete lives. For those high-risk, high-need individuals there are significant barriers to the services they need and we provide a mechanisms to change lives.
Denver Scholarship Foundation
Denver Scholarship Foundation (DSF) inspires and empowers Denver Public Schools (DPS) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education, by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources essential for success.
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN)
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 392,000.
Fresh Food Connect
Fresh Food Connect works to build a strong, hyper-local, and resilient food system with the goal of increasing the amount of fresh, local produce available to food insecure community members. We accomplish this by mobilizing gardeners to donate surplus vegetables via our mobile app.
Denver Inner City Parish
DICP loves and supports individuals and families in our community, empowering them to break the cycle of poverty. DICP’s COVID-19 response meets basic needs by meeting participants where they are and engaging community feedback.
Hanover Outreach Center
With the ongoing coronavirus , many of the families are still not working or have taken jobs that pay less. Many are struggling to pay their mortgage and/or rent and to play catch up on utilities and telephone service. Hanover Outreach Center continues to provide meals for the families on a weekly basis. Some have lost relatives to the virus. Making it harder on the families.There is an increase in home deliveries to the elderly, disabled and veterans by 37%.
Denver Rescue Mission
Denver Rescue Mission (DRM) serves people experiencing homelessness by providing hot meals, showers, drinking water, laundry, shelter/shelter referrals and self-sufficiency services. DRM is experiencing significant increase in demand for nutritious meals since the beginning of the outbreak.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Colorado
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Colorado's mission is to enable and inspire the youth of Northwest Colorado to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Arickaree School District R-2
To prevent hunger in our rural area where there are no programs to feed families and elderly in need.
Centennial Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES)
Centennial BOCES Mission Statement:
“Through collaboration, provide value-added resources that enrich educational opportunities for all students.”
Migrant Education Program (MEP):
The MEP ensures that children of migratory farm workers have access to the same free, appropriate public school education that is provided to other children. It seeks to remove barriers to school enrollment, attendance, and achievement of migrant children and families.
A Woman’s Place
Our mission is to shelter and help empower victims/survivors of domestic abuse to become safe, secure, and self-sufficient; and through education and collaboration to mobilize our community to help prevent domestic violence.Our 29-bed facility is the only domestic violence shelter in Weld County.
Baca County Food Bank
Baca County Food Bank is open the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month for regular distribution of food for the residents in need of Baca County and we are the only Food Bank in Baca County. We are also available to fill emergency food boxes 7 days a week for those who are out of food before our regular distribution days. Our boxes contain approximately a 2 week supply of food. We believe that no one in Baca County should go hungry.
Under the Umbrella Logan County Colorado
Our vision is to see community joining together to restore hope, spiritual wholeness, and productive independent living to the hurting, hungry, and homeless. Our mission is to collaborate with local agencies, networking to mobilize services to provide food, emergency housing needs, transportation, showers, etc. We join with the community to provide relief, rehabilitation, and empowerment. Hot meals two days a week, emergency services and lots of prayer.
Atlas Preparatory School
Atlas prepares and empowers ALL students (93.5% FRL) for success on their postgraduate paths through educational excellence, character development, community engagement & providing wraparound services. Very recently, 1137 students & families were surveyed & meeting nutritional needs remains a priority.
Creede School District
We need to be able to provide lunch to students who have opted for remote learning, have no access to lunch and live as much as 25-30 miles from the school. This will be accomplished by a weekly delivery of food equal to a week's worth of lunches.
Cripple Creek Victor School District Nutrition Services
Funds will be used to provide much needed equipment for the nutrition services unit and enable them to continue to feed the children of the community.
Mt. Carmel Health, Wellness and Community Center
Mt. Carmel in Trinidad typically provides wellness and education programs for rural adults and youth. During COVID, we began a food basket delivery program to meet the food security needs of the most at-risk families in our region. This program has provided over 17,000 nutritious meals, ingredients, and cooking instructions over the last five months. We will continue to operate the food basket program until the food security needs of our rural community are met through COVID and beyond.
Aurora Interfaith Community Services
Aurora Interfaith Community Services (AICS) expresses Christian concern for the Aurora community by providing substantive emergency assistance to Aurora residents and those experiencing homelessness. AICS’s primary program is food assistance, provided through a physical food bank and a new mobile food pantry. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for AICS’s food assistance programs has grown dramatically. In May, AICS and the City of Aurora started a new mobile food pantry program to help meet this increased need. The mobile pantry provides monthly drive-through and walk-up food distribution at various locations around the city of Aurora. Funding from the Blueprint to End Hunger will support the purchase of a refrigerated box truck to transport food to mobile food pantry locations as well as to AICS's brick and mortar food pantry, allowing AICS to continue to provide robust and adaptable food assistance services to the Aurora community into the future.
Jewish Family Service of Colorado
JFS requested support for its Weinberg Food Pantry to distribute essential food and supplies to individuals and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the onset of the crisis, JFS has responded to a 400% increase in demand for food through its pantry and is currently serving more than 125 households per day. Additionally, JFS is delivering more than 50 boxes a week of pantry food and essential household supplies to older adults and other vulnerable populations to prevent their exposure to COVID-19 by venturing out of the home.
HOPE
HOPE provides daytime and overnight shelter services, street outreach, case management, client storage, and a safe parking program in Longmont to help individuals and families achieve self-sufficiency.
Food for Thought Denver
Food for Thought – Denver strives to eliminate weekend hunger for children in the Denver area by providing food Powersacks. Doing so allows them to contribute more positively to their school environment and the communities in which they live, regardless of economic and social class. We believe that no child should go hungry.
First UMC Rocky Ford CO
We are a church committed to food security, education and the basic needs of all community members of the Arkansas Valley.
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 16000 families.
The Manna House
Manna House is a Nonprofit organization serving families in Fremont County. We provide a food pantry with donated food as well as baked goods for those families in need.
Thriving Families
Thriving Families is a non-profit in Denver with the mission of empowering women and their families to thrive. We offer workshops, coaching/case management, and therapy services to more than 400 pregnant and postpartum women a year to support them in delivering and raising healthy babies (see www.motherwisecolorado.org). These funds will help us identify food insecurity among the families we serve, link them with community food partners, and allow us to deliver fresh food and formula to their homes.
Project Hope of Gunnison Valley
The mission of Project Hope of Gunnison Valley is to support, educate and provide confidential advocacy to individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or human trafficking.
The Action Center
Established in 1968, The Action Center is the most comprehensive nonprofit human services organization serving Jefferson County, Colorado. We typically provide food, clothing, mail services, rent and utility assistance, case-managed programming, and connections to employment, education, and health services to 20,000+ people a year. During COVID-19, we temporarily limited services to drive-through/walk-up services for food, mail services, ID/birth certificate vouchers, and bus passes. We continue to offer utility and rent assistance on a remote basis. We recently re-opened our clothing distribution center for limited hours. Our dedicated volunteers run a resource helpline and assist callers with connecting to services around the community.
Grand Valley Peace & Justice
Our Food Pantry for Those Who Carry Their Homes on Their Backs is a reflection of our mission to provide innovative support to the poor and vulnerable impacted by social issues of the day. Our food bags are easy to carry with light weight and nutritious options that can be delivered to a camper or picked up whether on foot or a bicycle. We are also reaching our low income neighbors in housing in our actual office neighborhood who lost jobs or are feeding family at home while home schooling or engaging in online school. Whether our neighbors are in housing or not, we are filling the gap that COVID-19 created for so many who have trouble reaching food banks due to transportation or living conditions. After all, we are all neighbors.
Food for Hope
The mission of Food for Hope is to empower and strengthen the future of our community by providing nutritious food to children in need.
UCHealth Northern Colorado Foundation on behalf of the Family Medicine Center Food Pantry
The UCHealth Family Medicine Center food pantry will use its funding to address emergent needs created by the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to an increase in clients seeking food assistance, the food pantry has the operational loss of volunteers who provided 56 percent of the workforce prior to the stay-at-home guidance. The grant will support a supplemental workforce and help secure local, protein dense food for populations disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
The Family Medicine Center food pantry is co-located with social service agencies and a safety net health clinic. Collectively they can offset the suboptimal health choices related to food insecurity.
Mercy Housing Mountain Plains
The mission of Mercy Housing is to create stable, vibrant, and healthy communities by developing, financing and operating affordable, program-enriched housing for families, seniors, and people with special needs who lack the economic resources to access quality, safe housing opportunities. In Colorado, Mercy Housing supports almost 3,000 residents across 17 affordable housing properties, providing safe, stable housing and on-site Resident Services to meet basic needs for residents, including food access, and offer support in the key areas of Health & Wellness, Housing Stability, Financial Stability, Education/Out-of-School Time, and Community Engagement.
Archway Housing & Services
Archway Housing & Services was founded in 1995 based on a fundamental belief that affordable housing is a crucial element in building healthy communities. As a faith-based, non-profit affordable housing development corporation, Archway’s mission is to change lives by providing housing and related supportive services that engender a safe environment and teach community skills for families with very low to moderate incomes. Archway’s goal is to build healthier lives and communities by offering quality affordable housing with tailored services and resources to enhance the social and economic well-being of families. Archway serves almost 1,500 residents in Colorado, with over 1,200 residing in Archway communities in Metro Denver.
Jovial Concepts
The Jovial mission is to empower underserved communities to thrive by creating access to high quality food, promoting healthy and sustainable living, and increasing self-reliance.
Touch by an Angel, Inc.
TBA, Inc. provides comprehensive family support, youth development, parenting education services, food assistance to low income families, single parents, hungry, poor, and those lost and in need throughout Northeast Denver and Northern Aurora.
Friends of Longmont Youth
The mission of FLY is to enhance the services and programs of the Youth Center and Children, Youth, and Families through fundraising and volunteer support.
Rio Grande Farm Park
The Rio Grande Farm Park (RGFP) is a program of the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition. RGFP's primary programming consists of a farmer incubator and family farm plots. Farmer incubator participants are provided with land, water, markets, and training to start small farm businesses. In 2020, RGFP piloted a farm-to-pantry project to support our participants in delivering fresh produce to four local food pantry programs. Family farm plot participants grow produce for their own sustenance and to share with their families and neighbors. Since COVID began, RGFP has supported our farmers and growers to meet an increased community need for fresh, healthy produce.
Dolores County Senior Services
The Dolores County Senior Services is a multi-purpose organization that has served Dolores County seniors since 1976. The program provides a senior nutrition program, senior and Public transportation that includes medical access, a homemaker and home chore program, National Family Caregiver services, senior outreach, and health promotion programs.
Montezuma Food Coalition, DBA The Sharehouse
The Sharehouse cultivates community collaboration to build a vibrant and equitable local food system in the Four Corners region. As the sole project of the Montezuma Food Coalition, we connect healthy fresh food and nutrition education with people in need through a network of farmers and food assistance groups.
Montezuma School to Farm Project
Montezuma School to Farm Project unites our local agricultural heritage with our growing future by engaging students at the crossroads of sustainable agriculture, resource conservation, health, and economics through educational experiences in outdoor garden classes, on field trips, through youth farmers markets, and in summer farm camp. MSTFP also supports Montezuma County's food systems by utilizing its 7 garden spaces and 2-acre production plot to donate 3,000-5,000 pounds of fresh, healthy produce annually. MSTFP is excited to partner with the CO Blueprint to End Hunger and the CO COVID-19 Emergency Hunger Relief Fund to accomplish joint goals and deliverables.
Southern Colorado Farmers Market and Craft Fair
SoCoFarmMktPueblo@gmail.com
located at Mineral Palace Park, Pueblo - July through September
Eastside Action Support Team
Investing in our Community from the east side, out
EASTPuebloCO@gmail.com
719-582-4103
Clifton Christian Church Food and Clothing
We are blessed to be a food and clothing pantry in Clifton serving the east side of Grand Junction. We have been serving Mesa County for over 30 years. Our service are available 52 weeks a year. Wednesday 9-11:30 Wednesday 12:30-3
Friday 9-11:30 and 3rd Saturday of each month 9-11 or so.
Montezuma Food Coalition
Our facility in downtown Cortez, The Sharehouse, works to provide our community with fresh, healthy food through direct access, education and experiences. We facilitate connections between local agricultural producers and consumers to build a more equitable local food system.
Commún
Commún builds community resilience through relationships and programs that center community voice, cultivate a sense of belonging, and realize equity.
Parents for Parity
Parents for Parity empowers parents and community members to give low-income children equal access to nutrition and academic, social and emotional enrichment. It is an educational charity established to promote the pioneering legacy for social justice of Denver’s Marie L. Greenwood beginning in the Great Depression through the 1970’s.
Wilmore Davis Kindness Kloset
Our goal is to increase the amount of families served and offer a choice based model where they can "shop" for the food they need and want. Create more options for delivery or modes of transporting food to their homes.
Village Exchange Center
VEC serves immigrants and refugees. As a community center and multi-faith worship space it seeks to celebrate cultural and religious diversity by creating an inclusive environment where residents from all backgrounds interact, share and develop together. VEC seeks to empower our immigrant and refugee neighbors, build their economic and social capacity, and build connections with the broader community through social, cultural and economic exchange.