Colorado Food Pantry Assistance Grantees
Gunnison Country Food Pantry
The mission of Gunnison Country Food Pantry is to serve those-in-need by providing food assistanct in a kind, confidential, and supportive enviroment.
Village Exchange Center
The Village Exchange Center is a community center and multi-faith worship space that celebrates religious and cultural diversity by creating an inclusive environment where residents from all backgrounds can practice, interact, share, and develop together. We seek to assist the immigrant and refugee population to feel empowered to use their existing strengths and unique perspectives to enrich the city’s diverse and inclusive community.
Struggle of Love Foundation
Struggle of Love Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Colorado based organization that provides opportunities for underprivileged youth and/or families to access year-round services and programs. These programs offer alternatives to those that may not qualify for other community-based assistance programs.
Sister Carmen Community Center
Sister Carmen Community Center (SCCC) is a non-religious agency that has supported the community since 1978. Their mission is to provide assistance to residents of Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, and Erie who are in need, without discrimination.
Outreach United Resource Center, Inc. (dba OUR Center)
We help people move toward self-sufficiency by unifying community resources.
Karval Community Alliance Food Pantry
We try to solicit, store, and distribute food to neighbors who are struggling financially in a way that preserves their integrity.
Food for Hope
The mission of Food for Hope is to empower and strengthen the future of our community by providing vital nutrition to children in need. Food for Hope provides food to children through in-school food banks, weekend food bags, and School Fuel snacks.
Daddy Bruce Randolph Legacy Foundation (DBRLF)
Our Mission: To encourage the philanthropic legacy of Daddy Bruce Randolph through community awareness, workforce development and charitable initiatives to build stronger communities and cultivate future compassionate leadership.
Sharing With Sheridan Food Pantry
We are people committed to address food/hunger issues proactively in the area of Sheridan
Fresh Foundation
Strengthening our community through local food, collaboration and connection
7 Figures Ministries
The mission of our Food Pantry is to help our community thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunities through community partnerships.
Mission Arvada of The Rising Church
Mission Arvada provides a place of dignity and safety to promote self-sufficiency and sustainable solutions to homelessness.
Comitis Crisis Center
Comitis is the only 24/7 shelter in Aurora with a mission to provide emergency food, clothing and shelter for families and individuals experiencing homelessness.
The Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley, a program of La Puente Home
The Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley supports a network of 15 volunteer-run food pantries which address the lack of food access within the SLV. The network supports community led services, health equity, and food access.
Collaborative Healing Initiative within Communities (CHIC)
Collaborative Healing Initiative Within Communities (CHIC) is a grassroots, Black woman-founded and Black woman-led nonprofit organization focused on empowering women and girls of color to create generational legacies of health and wealth. Driven by our mission, CHIC serves Black, Latina, and Multiracial women and girls who face barriers to success, including limited educational attainment or employment experience, experiences of trauma, and previous incarceration.
Casa de Paz
Reunite families separated by ICE, one simple act of love at a time.
The Shepherd's Hand, Inc.
The Shepherd's Hand, Inc.is a 501c3, Colorado non-profit Corporation dedicated o providing for the physical and emotional needs of the "homeless" and underserved in the Montrose community. Our goal is to provide individuals and families with housing, food, clothing daytime and nighttime shelter and assistance in transitioning to employment and life "off the streets".
Help for Abused Partners
Help For Abused Partners is dedicated to the elimination of domestic violence in all its forms through community education, comprehensive advocacy and the empowerment of victims and their children.
Growing Home, Inc.
Growing Home is cultivating a healthy, equitable, and thriving north Metro Denver by connecting people to programs and services to drive community change in the areas of food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability. Growing Home's food pantry is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10-12PM, to anyone in the community 18 and older. Growing Home prides it self on sourcing food that is both healthy and culturally relevant to the community it serves while also utilize a choice food distribution model whereby participants can select the food most relevant to them and their families.
Pikes Peak Christian Church
Helping more people to end hunger in our community.
Boulder County AIDS Project (BCAP)
Until there is a cure for HIV, Boulder County AIDS Project works to improve the lives of people living with HIV, reduce transmission, and end stigma. As part of the additional supports BCAP offers to low-income people living with HIV, BCAP provides on-site food pantry services, including home delivery. BCAP serves Boulder, Broomfield, Gilpin, and Clear Creek counties.
The Salvation Army
The mission of The Salvation Army is to preach the gospel of Jesus and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
Atlas Preparatory School
Atlas prepares and empowers all students for success on their post-graduate paths through educational excellence, character development, and community engagement.
Rising Up
Rising Up’s mission is to create innovative lasting solutions to hunger, homelessness and poverty in Morgan County, Colorado. We are accomplishing this in our community with a food pantry where all people can procure healthful, plentiful, and culturally appropriate foods; with shelter where the homeless receive immediate safety and security with emergency services and community outreach oriented towards obtaining permanent housing; and with pathways of support, advocacy and referral that will provide lasting solutions.
Aspire 3D
The mission of Aspire 3D is to connect residents of the Loveland Housing Authority to multidimensional resources that will inspire them to Dream, Dare, and Do activities that elevate their quality of life.
Food Bank for Larimer County
Founded in 1984, the Food Bank for Larimer County is the central hub for charitable food distribution in our northern Colorado county. Our mission is to provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger-relief programs. Grant funds will help provide more nutritious, local foods at our direct-service Fresh Food Share pantries, UCHealth’s Family Medicine Center Food Pantry, and Colorado State University’s Rams Against Hunger Food Pantry. Together with these and other partners, we are working toward a hunger-free Larimer County.
S.H.A.R.E., Inc.
The mission of S.H.A.R.E., Inc. is to empower adults and children to live free from domestic violence and we work actively in the community to create awareness, safety and accountability. The ultimate goal of S.H.A.R.E., Inc. is the elimination of domestic violence. The means to this end focuses on community involvement and support, personal empowerment of domestic violence victims, and the well-being and care of children who experience domestic violence.
Arvada Community Food Bank, Inc. dba Community Table
Since 1982, Community Table has been building a stronger, more resilient community by providing nourishment and assistance to struggling families along with the resources and support they need to become self-reliant. We assist anyone in need, especially those in the northwest metro area, including Arvada, Broomfield, Denver, Edgewater, Federal Heights, Golden, Lakeside, Mountain View, Thornton, Westminster and Wheat Ridge.
Rocky Mountain Mutual Aid
Building a better world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and community support..
Community Partnership Family Resource Center
Community Partnership delivers programs and services that strengthen families.
The Action Center
The Action Center is the largest and most comprehensive nonprofit human services agency serving Jefferson County. With our 50-year history of providing an array of multidisciplinary services, we are a highly recognizable brand. Since 1968, the Action Center has been a critical source of assistance, connection, and hope for Jefferson County’s most vulnerable population. Since our establishment, we have helped hundreds of thousands of individuals and families to avert homelessness, and make ends meet with food, clothing, and aid that has allowed them to maintain dignity as they build stability.
Denver South Giving Grocery
The Denver South Giving Grocery provides free groceries, including fresh produce, meat, milk, personal care, and many culturally relevant items to the students of Denver South High School.
VORP of Denver DBA Colorado Circles for Change
Mission: TO CREATE A PATHWAY FOR OUR YOUTH TO DISCOVER SACRED RELATIONSHIPS WITH SELF, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY, TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AND INCARCERATION SO THAT YOUTH CAN REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.
Good Samaritan Center
The Good Samaritan Center is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that offers food assistance to anyone who needs it. It is our mission to ensure we all have equitable access to healthy food and supportive connections while working together to build a more just food system.
Bienvenidos Food Bank
Bienvenidos Food Bank has served the North Denver area for 46 years. We are deeply connected to the neighborhoods we serve, and our mission is that no one will go hungry in our community.
Commún
Commún builds community resilience through relationships and programs that center community voice, cultivate a sense of belonging, and realize equity.
Prairie Family Center
Providing our community with education and resources needed to build and support healthy functional families.
The Grub Hub
The Grub Hub Food Pantry is a student-led, food justice organization committed to serving everyone – students, graduate students, staff, faculty, community members – by breaking down the stigma behind food insecurity. We share good food through free meals and a free food pantry filled with produce from local farmers and donations from local businesses and non-profits.
Lynn Gardens Food Pantry
Reaching out to our neighbors with the Love of Jesus
Weld Food Bank
Weld Food Bank's mission is to “Lead and Engage our Community in the Fight Against Hunger”. WFB raises awareness of the pervasive nature of hunger in the community and strives to educate people on how they can be hunger relief advocates and encourages community engagement. Our purpose is to alleviate suffering from hunger by providing healthy foods and meals to anyone experiencing food insecurity with respect and dignity; and work towards food equity for all. Our goal is to ensure that no person in Weld goes hungry and that every individual has equal access to healthy foods.
CHIC
CHIC empowers women, girls and families of color to create generational legacies of health and wealth. Our mission is to build women's economic, social and cultural capital because powerful women build healthy families and thriving communities.
Mountain Roots Food Project
We are on a mission to cultivate a resilient food system in the Gunnison Valley by enhancing healthy connections between food, earth, and community. We foster knowledge, teach skills, and provide opportunities that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and sustainably produced food.
San Luis Valley Immigrant Resource Center
San Luis Valley Immigrant Resource's mission is to connect and empower immigrants with resources to achieve legal documentation, fulfill their economic needs, and integrate into the community.
Prairie Family Center
PRAIRIE FAMILY CENTER MISSION STATEMENT Provide our community with the tools & resources to build, support and educate healthy families. VISION Our mission, your success.
The Action Center
The mission of The Action Center is to provide an immediate and compassionate response to those in our community experiencing hardship by offering resources and services to stabilize lives and promote pathways to lasting change.
Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA)
EFAA provides stabilizing services, innovative programs, and transformative advocacy to strengthen families and create a thriving community.
Halo Community Outreach
Our mission to enpower and restore hope among the homeless and impoverished in the name of Jesus Christ. Halo believes that community can provide an effective means of intervening and preventing homelessness in Denver, Adams, Co. By building stronger communities, advocating for the homeless and creating solutions.
Karis, Inc.
Karis's mission is to provide inspiring housing and research based services to homeless individuals and families in Mesa County who are moving toward self-sufficiency.
Grand Valley Catholic Outreach
Mission Statement 'To proclaim the dignity and worth of each person and respond to human needs while striving to show the compassion of Christ'
Mountain Family Center
Mountain Family Center is a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building strength and developing self-reliance for individuals and families through responsive and collaborative services. Over the last two years, addressing food insecurity and helping to stabilize housing have been primary focus areas of the organization.
Sister Carmen Community Center
ister Carmen Community Center (SCCC) is a non-religious agency that has supported the community since 1978. Our mission is to provide assistance to residents of Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, and Erie who are in need, without discrimination.
Second Chance Center
Our goal is to help formerly incarcerated people transition to lives of success and fulfillment. We provide the formerly incarcerated, and their network, with education, resources, and support to successfully re-enter the community and cultivate a rewarding life.
Colorado Ethiopian Community
The mission of the Colorado Ethiopian Community is to implement structured and organized services and programs that promotes successful integration of Ethiopians into the American life /culture/ & to empower and encourage the community members, especially the young. To enhance the quality of life of its members through individual and family services, community programs and partnership with other organization. To provide guidance and counseling services to new immigrants/refugees come to America & assist them with immigration and legal matters
Community Table
Community Table began in 1982 as a grassroots food pantry in Arvada. Decades later, thanks to generous community support and hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours, we have grown to be one of the largest emergency food providers in the region. Over the years, we’ve expanded our calling by adding programs and resources struggling families need to lift themselves out of poverty, including emergency financial assistance for rent and utilities, public benefits application assistance, client computer room and more. Even so, our support for those in need continues to grow. We now offer showers, laundry services, medical and dental care and even nutrition and cooking programs. With continued support, we know we can do even more to help people in need. Every day we’re guided by our mission: Food. Help. Hope.
First Baptist Church
Loving and serving God, while reaching out to bring others to Him.
Help for Abused Partners
Help For Abused Partners is dedicated to the elimination of domestic violence in all its forms through community education, comprehensive advocacy and the empowerment of battered victims and their children.
Miguel Huerta
Roadrunner Food Pantry Mission The Roadrunner Food Pantry serves to fight hunger on campus by providing a variety of food and snack options for all MSU Denver students. We believe that all students (regardless of need) can benefit from access to free food that is quality, culturally relevant, and nutritious. The Roadrunner Food Pantry is aligned with additional resources on and off campus that promote the overall well-being of the students.
House of Neighborly Service
House of Neighborly Services assists and advocates for people challenged by the affects of poverty or situational crisis.
Redeeming Love Food Pantry
Inspiring and developing people through love and the work of the Holy Spirit into followers of Christ.
Spirit of the Sun, Inc.
An Indigenous womxn-led nonprofit located on Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho) land, Comanche, and 48+ other tribes sacred land, working to empower Native communities, one youth at a time.
Daddy Bruce Randolph Legacy Foundation
Our mission is to encourage the philanthropic legacy of Daddy Bruce Randolph through community awareness, workforce development and charitable initiatives to build stronger communities and cultivate future compassionate leadership.
God's Will Christian Fellowship
Our mission and purpose is to do God's will through evangelism, teaching and worship to bring individuals into relationship with Christ, for the advancement of God's kingdom and pursuit of abundant life.
Smart Bellies
Smart Bellies strives to bridge the gap of food insecurity by providing bags of nutritious food to school aged children, allowing them to get the full benefit of their education and development.
Project Protect Food Systems Workers
Project Protect Food Systems Workers was established to ensure the workers responsible for Colorado’s food systems are adequately protected from COVID-19 and appropriately compensated for the risks they assume. Project Protect also aims to address long-standing forms of marginalization that undermine food security in a society that aspires to equality and justice for all.
Summit Family and Intercultural Resource Center
We believe strong sustainable families are the key to a strong and healthy community.
Pine River Shares
We provide numerous food support programs in our work to build healthy thriving communities in the Pine River Valley of eastern La Plata County.
Cooperating Ministry of Logan County
CMLC has made it our mission to provide a coordinated emergency response to individuals and families in need and serve in the capacity as a traveler’s aid. To carry out this mission, CMLC mobilizes the resources of the religious and charitable organizations, local businesses, the municipalities, and the local government along with the private sector of this community.
Centro Cristiano Amistad de Denver
The mission is to provide basic human resources to all people who need them, regardless of their country of origin, race, religion, gender or socioeconomic status. Our vision is to feed the hungry, love the lonely, serve where there is need, and make an impact on the lives of people physically and spiritually
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Good Shepherd Food Bank is located in Northglenn, CO. it has been a neighborhood food bank for 35 years and has tried to be responsive to the needs of our ever growing community. Over the past 9 months we have more than doubled in the number of clients served. We do not have any boundaries and will serve anyone who walks through our door that is in need. Additionally, we encourage our volunteers to be responsive to the needs of our clients. We've offered condensed Spanish classes for volunteers. We also offer English Language Development classes for our clients. The input from our clients is also important. We've surveyed clients in the past with regards to days/times for open hours. Recently, we expanded our hours by 45 minutes per day. We're seeking culturally responsive food for distribution as well. Overall, Good Shepherd Food Bank strives to be an inclusive, loving oasis for our many clients.
Open Door Ministries - Westside Food Bank
We work to build community through providing access to healthy, culturally sensitive food. We serve under-resourced, immigrant families in the Mar Lee neighborhood of Denver.
Agape Christian Church
Agape Christian Church exists to impact the community with Christ's love through Biblical teaching, pastoral counsel and personal care to bring spiritual significance to those encountered. Our challenge is to take the Gospel to the whole person. Our mission is Christ's mission, To preach the Gospel to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.
Good Food Collective
Our collaborative proposal is seeking funds to be able to continue and strengthen the community food assistance programs run by the La Plata Family Center Coalition and the Animas Valley Grange, respectively. These distinct food assistance efforts were each born directly out of and formed to match the expressed needs of impacted community members in two of our most vulnerable populations in La Plata County-- our immigrant community, as well as, our rural, transportation-limited community.
Calvary Church, Golden - Calvary Food Shelf
The Calvary Food Shelf is a fully self-select pantry that provides fresh, healthy, culturally relevant, and nutritionally appropriate food to the most vulnerable members of our community.
Las Animas Helping Hands
Las Animas Helping Hands provides emergency assistance to individuals and families in Bent County and the surrounding area while providing opportunities to develop self-sufficiency.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church of Manitou Springs
"Feeding People All Ways"
Living Water Ministry Outreach
Feeding and servicing the homeless on Colfax corridor and offering other resources that are available
Nederland Food Pantry
Since 1986, the Nederland Food Pantry has been fulfilling its mission to relieve hunger and provide basic needs and support to the Peak-to-Peak Community in a respectful and compassionate manner.
Integrated Family Community Services
Integrated Family Community Services (IFCS) provides basic human services and enrichment programs to low-income people, using community resources. IFCS fosters self-sufficiency and respects the dignity of each client.
Henderson Community Church Food Pantry
Feeding the hungry with no judgment.
5 Loaves Pantry
Our mission is to provide a food source for those experiencing food insecurity, serving our friends and neighbors in a caring and compassionate manner from the McClave/Hasty and surrounding communities.
Full Force Ministries SOG, Inc.
A Community Outreach To build, and bridge lives and hearts together by serving one another. Each one Reach one.
Custer County Community Sharing Center
Helping our clients to eat healthier foods and support our local ranchers and farmers
Colorado Health Network
The mission of Colorado Health Network is to equitably meet the evolving needs of people affected by HIV and other health conditions through prevention, care and advocacy.
Gunnison Country Food Pantry
Gunnison Country Food Pantry serves those in need by providing food assistance in a kind, confidential and supportive environment.
Springs Food Pantry
To serve and bless all in need
SECORCares
SECORCares provides for the food insecure residents of Douglas, Arapahoe, and Elbert County (42 zip codes). Through our free food market, mobile food market, Food for Thought outreach, senior outreach, college outreach, self-sufficiency program, we work to address food insecurity holistically. We are committed to breaking the chains of suburban poverty by building a community of dedicated, caring people working together to end suburban poverty while restoring hope and livelihood to those experiencing it.
PlatteForum
Using the arts as a bridge, we connect youth and artists with resources to reach their full potential. At PlatteForum, youth and professional artists collaborate on long-term, intensive projects, where they explore a wide array of social issues together and take creative risks in a safe and inclusive environment with wrap-around services. In the process, youth participants develop academic, professional, social/emotional, leadership and personal skills that stay with them forever. Our food pantry is an essential resource for our youth participants, their families, artists, and our broader Five Points community.
SecorCares
“Caring for people faced with Suburban Poverty, restoring hope and dignity, and guiding them toward a self-sufficient life.”
Five Star Education Foundation
The Five Star Education Foundation is the nonprofit partner to Adams 12 Five Star Schools by funding opportunities that inclusively prepare students for their future and have been doing so for over 30 years. We believe that actions speak louder than words. Our mission statement, “Invest in Student Success,” is more than dollars: it is the work of harnessing the power of community to shape the future of our students. We “Mind the Gap” of K-12 education with the outside world. Our areas of practice involve innovation in education, career discovery, learning readiness, and capacity building for Adams 12 Five Star Schools. Join us and ensure that ALL students see their own path to future success!
Sharing Ministries Food Bank
Our mission is to provide nutritious food to those in need while facilitating education about healthy living and a connection to other community resources.
Aurora Interfaith Community Services
Aurora Interfaith Community Services (Aurora Interfaith) feeds the hungry and provides other supportive services to improve lives. Aurora Interfaith’s primary goal is to help community members survive and rise out of situational poverty, a goal that has become more important than ever before during the pandemic-driven economic turbulence of the past two and a half years. Aurora Interfaith's largest program is food assistance, provided through a brick-and-mortar food pantry and a mobile food pantry. Aurora Interfaith complements food assistance with wraparound services including utilities bill payment assistance and community navigation.
Pueblo Food Project
Pueblo Food Project is a community led coalition that helps create a more vibrant, nutritious and equitable food system for every eater in Pueblo County.
Ranch House Ministry Inc
To support members of society in anyway possible, to include food, clothing, shelter and resources.
Re:Vision
Our Mission is to work with people in economically marginalized neighborhoods to develop resident leaders, cultivate community food systems, and create an economy owned by the community.
KidsPak
FEEDING THE FUTURE. KidsPak focuses on providing weekend meals to food insecure studeents, allowing them to reach their full potential. This is achieded through partnering with our schools, community, donors and volunteers.roviding weekend meals to food-insecure students
Manna - The Durango Soup Kitchen
The mission of Manna is to provide, in spirit of faith and love, nourishing meals and supportive services in an atmosphere of acceptance and caring for those in need.
Kathleen Richmond
At Parker Food Pantry our mission is to norish the Park Hill neighborhood through weekly food distribution, educational opportunities, and community connections. We are proud to work with local and regional partners--including--you to help meet the needs of hundreds of individuals and families.
Amigos De México
Amigos De México, we are a non-profit organization. Our goal is to help the immigrant community improve their quality of life, include them in Health, Education, Economy and Culture projects, in order to promote community empowerment for a more supportive and productive society.
Reaching Out to Community and Kids
Our mission is to build a healthier, stronger, and more prosperous community by providing food relief, youth and family enrichment, and community events.
Ecumenical Church of Pueblo West
The Ecumenical Church of Pueblo West is inviting the surrounding communities to Know, Grow in, Serve and Share Jesus Christ. Our Food Pantry exists for the sole purpose of serving as the hands and feet of Jesus to those in our community in need regardless of race, gender identity, religion, documentation status, economic standing or personal background. The goal of our Food Pantry is to provide hunger relief for families and individuals that are in Pueblo West and the surrounding community. Our hope is that we can help fight the epidemic of hunger and assist in eradicating poverty, one life, one family at a time.
Aurora Public School-ACTION ZONE
The ACTION Zone is a network of schools within Aurora Public Schools. Our commitment is to community, equity, and healthy outcomes for students and families. We offer two food clinics for our students and families, where families can receive nutritious and cultural sensitive food, case management, and wrap around health and social services.
Growing Home
Growing Home is cultivating a thriving, healthy, and equitable North Metro Denver by connecting people to services and programs to drive community action in the areas of food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability.
Clifton Christian Church Food Bank
The mission of Clifton Christian Church Food Bank to provide nutritious food and supplementary items to individuals in need, showing love, compassion and respect and touching everyone. As that they would know they are important and have a great purpose. Our vision at Clifton Christian Church Food Bank will continue to be an outstanding outreach to serve those in need in the East End of the Grand Valley and to grow its impact, reputation, recognition and stainability so like as organization of excellence.
Aspire
The mission of Aspire is to provide residents of Loveland Housing Authority individualized support that promotes wellbeing, independence, and economic security.
SECORCares
Caring for people faced with Suburban Poverty, restoring hope and dignity, and guiding them toward a self-sufficient life.
Outreach United Resource Center, Inc. (dba OUR Center)
We help people move toward self-sufficiency by unifying resources.
We Don't Waste
We Don't Waste's mission is to increase food access and protect the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Atlas Preparatory School
Atlas Preparatory School prepares and empowers all students for success on their post-graduate paths through educational excellence, character development, and community engagement. Atlas goes beyond a school and is considered a hub for services by our students, families, and surrounding community. Our Food Pantry is open to anyone in the community expressing need.
Sharing with Sheridan Food Pantry
Once a week food distribution for anyone in the area
TARA Historical Society at Navajo Lake
TARA Food Pantry
Harvest Mountain Ministries, dab Jeffco Eats
Harvest Mountain Ministries, dba Jeffco Eats was founded in 2014 to address the significant need for healthy, shelf-stable food for at-risk youth and adolescents in Jefferson County during non-school hours. 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.
Rising Up
Rising Up’s mission is to create innovative lasting solutions to hunger, homelessness and poverty in Morgan County, Colorado. We are accomplishing this in our community with a food pantry where all people can procure healthful, plentiful, and culturally significant foods; with shelter where the homeless receive immediate safety and security with emergency services and community outreach oriented towards obtaining permanent housing; with pathways of support, advocacy and referral that will provide lasting solutions.
Lifespan Local - Southwest Food Coalition
The Southwest Food Coalition's mission is to create a truly collaborative team of food champions in Southwest Metro Denver who take action to address food insecurity and food sovereignty at a hyper local level with support from regional partners.
St. Augustine Community Food Pantry
Our mission is to provide nutritional support to families in need.
Struggle of Love Foundation
The Struggle of Love Foundation (S.O.L.F.) is a 501(c) 3 Colorado community-based non-profit organization created to provide community awareness, community involvement, and social activities, for youth, adults, and families. The SOL program addresses youth mental health, gang intervention, sexual behavior, and promoting healthy lifestyles.
The GrowHaus
The GrowHaus is a non-profit organization using food access as an entry point to building community wealth in Globeville and Elyria-Swansea.
Liz Larkin
We build community by welcoming, nourishing, and loving our neighbors as ourselves.
Zera Miller
Vision: To be the source of hope in the fallen world as a testimony of faith in God, revealing that through Jesus Christ, all things are possible. Mission: Providing outreach opportunities and various services to equip individuals with skills, support, and resources, that enable stability and success to be achieved and maintained. Purpose: To impact & inspire; educate & empower individuals, families, and communities to overcome the adversities that life presents.
Zera Miller (New Direction Agape Services)
Vision: To be the source of hope in the fallen world as a testimony of faith in God, revealing that through Jesus Christ, all things are possible. Mission: Providing outreach opportunities and various services to equip individuals with skills, support, and resources, that enable stability and success to be achieved and maintained. Purpose: To impact & inspire; educate & empower individuals, families, and communities to overcome the adversities that life presents.
Alternatives to Violence, Inc.
Alternatives to Violence provides shelter, advocacy, education and resources for people impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.
Salida Senior Citizens, Inc. dba Salida Community Center
The Salida Community Center promotes an environment of support and advocacy for our community through fostering opportunities for fellowship, recreation, health, wellness, lifelong learning, and partnering with other organizations.
Family & Intercultural Resource Center
The Family & Intercultural Resource Center promotes stable families and a strong community.
Mutual Aid Partners
MAP is a grassroots-oriented, community-led nonprofit organization that was formed as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the immediate, subsequent need to support and connect our community members with the goal of reducing food insecurity. Since we started in August of 2020, we've been able to assist over 22,000 families through the weekly distribution of essential resources including food, clothing, hygiene products and facilitated accessibility to education, medical care and shelter. The creative collaborations we forged early on, helped us to learn that our work could catalyze sustainable change by engaging other community partners and social service agencies. The impact we’re able to create is exponentially greater due to our emphasis on cooperative partnerships, as well as our positioning of meaningful outreach through the lens of accessibility and a culturally- responsive, dignity-centered approach.
Backpack Society
Our mission is to remove food insecurity as an obstacle for children so they can grow, learn, and thrive.
Servicios de La Raza
This funding will provide nutritious, culturally appropriate meals to BIPOC community members in the Denver Metro area with a particular focus on low-income Latino families living in West Denver.
Mission Arvada of The Rising Church
Mission Arvada helps the poor, the homeless, the marginalized and the forgotten. We assist them with basic needs and help them move beyond their circumstances. Our Navigation Center has a food pantry, day shelter with meals and showers, clothing bank, housing support, and referral to other agencies.
God's Will Christian Fellowship
The safest place to be is in the center of God's Will!
Center Toward Self-Reliance
Our agency offers services and supports specifically targeted to assist disabled individuals live as independently as possible in the community of their choice. This grant will provide us the opportunity to assist those in our community who struggle in their quest to be active contributing members of society to decrease their concerns about food insecurity.
The Salida Senior Citizens, Inc. dba Salida Community Center
The Salida Community Center promotes an environment of support and advocacy for our community through fostering opportunities for fellowship, recreation, health, wellness, lifelong learning, and partnering with other organizations. We hope to eliminate hunger in the Chaffee County area by providing residents in need with programs that provide food, promote the value of nutrition, increase self-sufficiency, and install hope.
Denver South Giving Grocery - South High PTSA
Funding will support refugees and immigrants from over thirty countries as well as
low-income families at Denver South High School who utilize the Denver South Giving Grocery. Funds will be used to purchase culturally appropriate food to assist in meeting the needs of our diverse student population.
Rangely Community Resource Pantry
To provide food and other personal care items for those in need in the Rangely community.
Village Exchange Center
The Village Exchange Center’s mission is to celebrate religious and cultural diversity by providing a hub for programs, organizations, and services that support integration, engagement, and empowerment while respecting and honoring our immigrant and refugee communities’ unique traditions and values. The Village Pantry strives to provide culturally familiar food to each of the diverse communities served. Over the past two years, demand for the Village Pantry has grown exponentially, largely due to the economic impacts of the Covid pandemic. The Village Pantry is now serving over 700 families (3,430 individuals) per week, distributing an estimated 12,000 lbs of food each week. The pantry relies on 50-100 volunteer service hours per week, with a hybrid of American-born volunteers working alongside volunteers who are themselves refugees and immigrants from the populations VEC serves.
Project Protect Food Systems Workers
Project Protect Food Systems Workers is a coalition of immigrants, farmers, scholars, activists, organizers, and workers dedicated to identifying and addressing the needs of the essential workers who power our food system. We provide resources and information through the Project Protect Promotora Network to improve health equity in agricultural worker communities across Colorado.
GracePoint Community Church Food Bank
Food Bank distribution open to all who need food.
Community Table
For nearly four decades, Community Table has been building a stronger and more resilient community by providing nourishment to struggling families along with the resources and support they need to become self-reliant. We will use grant funds to help offset the pandemic-related impacts on our supply chain, round out our nutritional pantry mix, and provide culturally responsive and kid-friendly food options. Annually we distribute approximately 1.4 million pounds of food to 75,000 hungry adults, children and seniors. This funding will help us meet the current need and expand our hunger-relief efforts to families who have found themselves hungry for the first time due to the pandemic.
The Action Center
The mission of The Action Center is to provide an immediate and compassionate response to those in our community experiencing hardship by offering resources and services to stabilize lives and promote pathways to lasting change. Established in 1968, The Action Center is the most comprehensive nonprofit human services organization serving Jefferson County. 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. The number of households we provide with food has more than doubled during the pandemic. The Action Center also distributes food to many schools to ensure that students and families in disproportionately impacted communities have access to nutritious foods.
Emergency Family Assistance Association
Since 1918, the Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA) has provided safety net services for marginalized residents of Boulder and the surrounding mountain communities. To prevent homelessness and hunger, we provide housing for unsheltered families, basic needs financial assistance, and food from our Food Pantry. With the majority of our participants currently relying on our Food Pantry as their main source of food, this grant will help us dramatically increase the variety and quantity of fresh produce, meats and dairy we can offer, as well as expand our stock of Latinx food items.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Minnequa Post 3641
Our mission is to foster camaraderie among U.S. Veterans of overseas conflict. To serve our Veterans, the military, and our homeless communities. To advocate on behalf of all veterans. To assist homeless veterans and veterans in need to help find shelter, pay utilities, rent, and other services that are needed. To provide resources to enhance their lifestyles. To supplement food needs to veterans and the community at large. We provide assistance to all who ask as allowed by our charter.
Ecumenical Church of Pueblo West
The goal of the Ecumenical Church of Pueblo West "Hands and Feet Outreach" Food Pantry is to provide hunger relief for families that are in Pueblo West and the surrounding communities. Our hope is that we can help fight the epidemic of hunger and assist in eradicating poverty one life, one family at a time.
Pueblo Cooperative Care Center
Pueblo Cooperative Care Center (PCCC) serves low income, no income, homeless, homebound, disabled, senior citizens and veterans from Pueblo County, and includes Pueblo and the most rural and isolated communities of Avondale, Beulah Valley, Blende, Boone, Colorado City, Pueblo West, Rye, Salt Creek and Vineland. For nearly 40 years PCCC has been providing emergency food pantry services (Food Sack Program) to individuals and families who are needy and experiencing food insecurity and struggling with hunger. All services are provided at zero cost to clients.
Centro Cristiano Amistad de Denver
The mission is to provide basic human resources to all people who need them, regardless of their country of origin, race, gender or socioeconomic status. Our vision is to feed the hungry, love the lonely, serve where there is need, and make an impact on the lives of people physically and spiritually.
Broomfield FISH Food Bank and Family Resource Center
The mission of Broomfield FISH is to meet our neighbors' basic human needs and provide them with the hope and tools to rise out of poverty. As a food bank and family resource center serving low-income Broomfield county residents, our goal is to prevent hunger and homelessness. FISH will use grant funds to purchase more locally-sourced, healthy, and nutritious food for our Broomfield families in need and expand mobile delivery options.
Metro Ministries, Inc
Metro Ministries serves the poor and working poor of the greater Denver Metropolitan area. Our partnerships with local Housing authorities give us the ability to reach those who may otherwise be overlooked.
We Don’t Waste
We Don’t Waste believes nutritious food should go to people, not landfills. We Don't Waste reduces hunger and food waste in the Denver area by recovering quality, unused food from the food industry and delivering it free-of-charge to food pantries, soup kitchens, schools, and shelters serving those in need. Since 2009, We Don’t Waste has recovered and distributed more than 161 million servings of food to those in need.
The Salvation Army of Loveland
The Salvation Army of Loveland and Berthoud have given out assistance to 45,595 people last year. Assistance includes emergency shelter and respite lodging at hotels, rent and homelessness prevention, clothing and homeless gear, diapers and baby items, hygiene kits and PPE, food and snacks, pet food, bus passes and gas vouchers, Thanksgiving food baskets and Christmas gifts, youth summer camps, and school supplies. Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the doors of The Salvation Army have remained open and will continue to stay open to serve those in need.
Full Force Ministries SOG, INC
Our mission is to encourage, strengthen and equip the Body of Christ in taking Full Force of our Godly Kingdom positions and being effectively and personally involved in leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
Custer County Community Sharing Center
To address healthy food needs for anyone experiencing food scarcity including families, seniors and veterans.
Sparrow House Ministries
Sparrow House Ministries is located in Lamar, Colorado. We are a faith-based ministry that provides emergency food assistance, while offering encouragement to the less fortunate in our community. On a monthly basis, approximately 1200 people are served from Prowers County and the extended rural areas. Our clients come to us from varying backgrounds and situations. Some are working families just trying to make ends meet, some are addicts, some are single parents trying to keep up, some are homeless, some are elderly or disabled. Regardless of their situations we believe that every person is valuable and needs love, attention, and the basic necessities of food, shelter, and clothing.
Bienvenidos Food Bank
Bienvenidos Food Bank has provided food assistance for neighbors in need throughout the Denver metro area for 45 years. Our mission is to ensure that no one will go hungry in our community. Families and individuals may choose the food they need on a weekly basis and we strive to always provide healthy choices including fresh fruits and vegetables that many families struggle to afford. We operate a store-front pantry as well as mobile pantries that reach those in high-need neighborhoods, provide grocery delivery for seniors and shut-ins, and support local schools and nonprofit agencies with on-sight food assistance to better serve families in those neighborhoods.
Redeeming Love Fellowship Church
The Redeeming Love Fellowship Church Food Bank endeavors to meet the physical need for substance for anyone that needs it and encourages everyone to partake of the spiritual food provided by the ministries of the church. We offer Food 4 Food!
Atlas Preparatory School
Atlas Preparatory School prepares and empowers all students for success on their post-graduate paths through educational excellence, character development, and community engagement. Atlas goes beyond a school and is considered a hub for services by our students, families, and surrounding community. Our Food Pantry is open to anyone in the community expressing need.
Regis University
Regis University offers a food pantry on our NW Denver campus called the Cupboard. The Cupboard provides free meals and snacks for students, staff, and their families on a daily basis. We also welcome members of the community who are facing food insecurities to visit our pantry on a monthly basis, or more often when food quantities make it possible to do so.
Holyoke School District RE-1J
Holyoke School District lies in Northeast Colorado and strives to be an innovative entity.
Our mission is to graduate every student prepared with the necessary knowledge, skill and character to find success in life. Student social and emotional health is highly important to us, both in and out of school.
EChO, Evergreen Christian Outreach
EChO has been identified as a model food bank, letting shoppers choose their own items within established guidelines. This model has proven to re-establish and bolster self-esteem in people who sometimes need that very support. Choice is a freedom everyone enjoys and offering it in a food pantry can build a client's self-worth and confidence. As a leader in this regard, it is incumbent upon EChO to promote these concepts, try new ideas and plan for future developments. It is the very core of what defines “community”.
Family Resource Center
FRC operates Blessing Boxes throughout Sterling in rural northeastern Colorado. These Blessing Boxes allow people to access food 24 hours a day. FRC also has a small indoor food pantry where meats, eggs, and milk are offered.
Spirit of the Sun
An Indigenous womxn-led nonprofit located on Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho) land, Comanche, and 48+ other tribes sacred land, working to empower Native communities, one youth at a time.
Lifespan Local
Lifespan's mission is to cultivate community well-being through partnerships with local residents and community champions. Part of this work includes leading the Southwest Food Coalition - a group of food champions dedicated to addressing food insecurity and food sovereignty at a hyper local level.
Food for Hope
The mission of Food for Hope is we empower and nourish our community by providing nutritious food to children in need. Our organization works with school districts to identify students struggling with hunger and get them the resources they need.
Jewish Family Service of Colorado (JFS)
JFS received support for its Weinberg Food Pantry that removes barriers for disproportionately vulnerable populations through its internal and community partnerships to serve individuals and families throughout the entire Denver metro area affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds will support the Food Pantry’s operations to purchase food for distribution and underwrite staff hours and wages. We will be using philanthropic funding to deploy a mobile food pantry—a vehicle that can visit communities where Afghan refugees are resettling and the Safe Parking site to distribute culturally relevant foods as well as foods that do not require intense preparations for families experiencing homelessness.
Denver Inner City Parish
Our mission: The Denver Inner City Parish loves and supports individuals and families in our community, empowering them to break the cycle of poverty.
TARA Food Pantry
The TARA Food Pantry has grown by leaps and bounds, partnering with a lot of organizations, from local growers to supportive outreach organizations in Pagosa Springs, Ignacio and Durango.
Silver Key Senior Service
Silver Key serves in partnership with our stakeholders to support a healthy quality of life for seniors, allowing them to age safely with dignity and independence.
A Woman’s Place
A Woman's Place is a domestic violence safehouse located in Greeley, Colorado. We operate a confidential food pantry to provide food to residents staying at the shelter. Our 29-bed facility is the only domestic violence shelter in Weld County.
Sister Carmen Community Center
Sister Carmen Community Center (SCCC) is a non-religious agency that has provided assistance to residents of East Boulder County who are in need, without discrimination, since 1978. Our origins stem from Sister Carmen Ptacnik, a Catholic nun who was assigned to assess the needs of the people in Lafayette, Colorado in 1970. She distributed food and clothing to anyone in need and particularly connected with the Spanish speaking population. The community embraced and continued her humanitarian efforts, leading us to eventually become the organization we are today, offering critical resources to thousands of individuals and families and distributing over 1 million pounds of food a year.
Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley
The Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley, a program of La Puente Home, addresses the immediacy of hunger and malnutrition in the San Luis Valley by providing nutritious food to individuals and families in need.
Fresh Start Center
Fresh Start Center was founded in 2006 under the name High Plains Helping Hands, and focuses on fighting hunger and poverty for families in the Pikes Peak and Eastern Plains regions of Colorado. Please visit www.freshstartcenter.com to find out more!
Homeward Alliance
Homeward Alliance is a Larimer County-based non-profit that exists to empower individual and families who face homelessness to survive, move forward and thrive. We provide a range of services to about 5,000 individuals each year: everything from basic-needs assistance to behavioral healthcare, employment- and housing-focused case management, and more. We are also the Homeless Management Information System Lead Agency for the recently formed Northern Colorado Continuum of Care. We operate the Murphy Center—host to 20 independent nonprofits and the hub of services for people experiencing housing insecurity in Larimer County.
Denver Dream Center
Providing Hope for the Hopeless
Food Bank of the Rockies
As the largest hunger relief organization in the Rocky Mountain Region and with the mission to ignite the power of community to nourish people facing hunger, Food Bank of the Rockies is uniquely suited to answer the enormous challenge of food insecurity that currently affects one out of every eight Coloradans. During 2020 and the height of the pandemic, Food Bank of the Rockies distributed more than 100 million pounds of food across our total service area. We currently work with 673 Hunger Relief Partners throughout Northern Colorado and offer direct services to ensure that nutritious food is being provided with compassion and care to the individuals who need it most.
Center Toward Self-Reliance
Our agency provides services and supports to individuals with disabilities in Southeastern Colorado. Our food pantry mainly focuses on Pueblo and Fremont Counties and is open to anyone in need whether or not they have a disability.
Karval Community Alliance
http://www.karval.org/about
Kaizen Food Rescue
Kaizen Food Rescue (KFR) was built to meet the local need for a stable, equitable, locally empowered, and community-centered food system. KFR, is a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and women-led nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop effective solutions for food and nutrition security by engaging community members.
Life Inter-Faith Team on Unemployment and Poverty - LIFT-UP
LIFT-UP is a non-profit started in 1982 dedicated to providing humanitarian essentials while creating a bridge to personal empowerment and self-reliance; we help everyone experiencing food scarcity. LIFT-UP provides as much food as possible to as many people as possible in the most efficient manner possible with pantries of choice and mobile drop-off locations from Aspen to Parachute.
Parkhill Food Pantry
At Park Hill Food Pantry, our mission is to nourish the Park Hill neighborhood through weekly food distribution, educational opportunities, and community connections. We are proud to work with local and regional partners—including you—to help meet the needs of hundreds of individuals and families.
Agape's Pantry
Provide food baskets every Friday 11:00am until 2:30 for all.
Mt. Carmel Health, Wellness and Community Center
Mt. Carmel’s mission is to provide integrated healthcare, wellness, and community spirit. We collaborate with community partners to provide services that nurture mind, body, and spirit. Mt. Carmel programming improves the current and future wellbeing of residents in southern Colorado and includes wellness programs for senior and adult populations, youth programs which offer unique educational opportunities, and a food distribution program to ease food insecurity for our most at-risk populations and provide education and support around food preparation and healthy food choices.
Metro Caring
Metro Caring's mission is to work with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger.
Integrated Family Community Services
Integrated Family Community Services (IFCS) provides basic human services and enrichment programs to those in need, using community resources since 1964. IFCS fosters self-sufficiency and respects the dignity of each client.
Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado
At Care and Share Food Bank, we believe that no one should go hungry. Our mission is to provide food, partnering opportunities, and education to combat hunger and food insecurity in Southern Colorado communities. Our core purpose is to bridge the gap between hunger and abundance.
Cooperating Ministry of Logan County
Cooperating Ministry (CMLC) has been serving rural communities in Logan County, NE Colorado since 1981. Our humble beginnings served this community as a clothing exchange and has grown into a successful non-profit that offers multiple crisis intervention and prevention programs, a large food pantry program and a Thrift Store. Our vision is to provide coordinated emergency resources and assistance to people in need. We are committed to serving Logan County residents and we are passionate about what we do. Visit us on Facebook or coopminlc.com.
God’s Will Christian Fellowship (GWCF)
My sincerest prayer for you is that you enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you do not know Jesus personally, I would love the opportunity to introduce Him to you!
Restoration Outreach Programs
ROP serves the East Colfax community in northwest Aurora and east Denver with a Food Bank, ESL classes, Work Readiness training, and children's and youth programs and mentoring
Cherishing Life Youth Transformation Services
Cherishing Life Youth Transformation Services has been developed to provide higher education preparation, nutrition support and life skills development to youth and young adults.
Small Town Project-Rocky Ford Food Share
Our goal is to improve health equity in our community and establish programs that will improve quality of life, enhance the local economy, empower underserved people, and promote a sense of community. The Rocky Ford Food Share has provided over 250,000 pounds of food to over 15,000 people in southeast Colorado!
The GrowHaus
The GrowHaus is a nonprofit organization in North Denver working to cultivate community-driven food justice through food access and food and wellness education. We are currently running a no-cost and low-cost food distribution program reaching 500 families in Globeville and Elyria-Swansea every week.
Smart Bellies
Smart Bellies strives to eliminate childhood hunger during school breaks by providing backpacks full of nutritious food, allowing children to get the full benefit of their education and development.
Tin Shed Food Pantry
Food Pantry that distributes once a week to 140 families every Wednesday from 4:00-6:00 pm located at 10555 W. 44th Ave, Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033
Boulder County AIDS Project
BCAP’s Food Pantry is an essential wraparound service for low-income people living with HIV, providing timely access to plentiful groceries, including fresh produce, grains, dairy, eggs, meat, other proteins, and shelf-stable options, as well as essential toiletries. In 2020, BCAP distributed 51,942 lbs. of food to low-income people living with HIV and their households vs 37,685 lbs. of food in 2019. To learn more about BCAP, please visit https://www.bcap.org/
Southwest Improvement Council
Over the years, SWIC has grown to provide services addressing wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, nutrition, socialization, and aging-in-place for older adults, and education, recreation, employment, affordable housing, housing counseling and homebuyer education for younger community members. For the past 30 years, SWIC has operated in the Westwood Community Center. As an on-the-ground provider of vital services to low-income residents in Westwood, Villa Park, Valverde, Barnum West, Barnum, Athmar Park, Mar Lee, and Ruby Hill, SWIC has a deep and unique perspective on the challenges faced by the communities it serves, such as food and nutrition insecurity and limited access to services for older adults.
Harvest of Hope Pantry
Our mission is to provide healthy supplemental food to Boulder families and individuals in need of food assistance within a safe, welcoming and non-judgmental environment.
Backpack Society
Happy hearts and bright futures start with full bellies. Backpack Society's mission is to remove food insecurity as an obstacle for children so they can grow, learn, and thrive.
Lynn Gardens Baptist Church
Weekly food pantry. 1st, 2nd, and 4th Thursdays as well as 3rd Wednesday. Days subject to change for holidays.
Southeast Health Group
Southeast Health Group is the community behavioral health center serving the counties of Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero and Prowers in the southeast corner of Colorado. The Peer Support Program offers food pantry assistance through its three locations in Rocky Ford, La Junta and Lamar.
Salida senior Citizens, Inc. dba Salida Community Center
The S.C.C. is providing food to over 900 low-come individuals, families, and seniors on a monthly basis.
Community Partnership Family Resource Center
Community Partnership Family Resource Center delivers programs and services which strengthen families.
St. Augustine Food Pantry
Support for our ability to provide more meat and produce to our clients.
Lord’s Daily Bread
Lord's Daily Bread provides food, counseling and referrals to the poor and homeless in the Denver Metro area, transforming lives while restoring hope and dignity. For over 20 years, LBD has provided lifesaving resources to some of the most vulnerable people in Denver, who are at particular risk of hunger and disconnection from resources during the current pandemic.
Eastside Action Support Team
We are a non-profit on the East Side of Pueblo. We are committed to improving the image of the east side of Pueblo through community outreach programs. We seek to increase the quality and safety of our neighborhoods, working with law enforcement and other communities and organizations. We currently oversee a Mobile Food Bank at Lucero Library on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month.
Mountain Roots Food Project
Providing weekly fresh fruit and vegetable boxes to 75 low-income and vulnerable households and fresh produce for senior meals, emphasizing purchasing from local farmers.
Pueblo Food Project
The goal of Pueblo Food Project is to create a more vibrant, nutritious, sustainable, and equitable food system for every eater in Pueblo county. The PFP community pantry partners with charitable feeding organizations to provide local foods that Pueblo residents recognize and enjoy.
Caring & Sharing Community Resources and Transformation Center
Caring and Sharing is a non-profit sharing food, clothes, mentoring, scholarships, and other resources.
My Neighbor's Cupboard
By utilizing and bringing together community resources Crosses for Losses/My Neighbor's Cupboard will provide food and other assistance to individuals, families, and communities. Our goal is to ensure no one goes without a basic need.
Community Care Collective
Community Care Collective serves all residents of Saguache County and beyond on an equity-based model. We believe that healthcare, nourishment, and community are rights - not privileges. We provide supportive healthcare services and work in collaboration with the Crestone Food Bank to ensure access to healthy food for all of our neighbors.
LiftUp of Routt County
LiftUp of Routt County is a 501c3 nonprofit that has provided help and hope to neighbors in need since 1996. Respecting the dignity of every person, LiftUp serves the community by providing resources and assistance to meet basic human needs and strengthen self-sufficiency. LiftUp is comprised of three departments: Food Banks/Community Support, Thrift Store, and Donation Center. They also have Community Gardens, comprised of a greenhouse and eighteen raised garden beds, in which food is grown for the Food Banks. LiftUp accepts gently used, donated goods from community members and, in turn, sells them in the Thrift Store to help fund programs and operations. In 2020, LiftUp distributed 75,740 snacks and lunches to school-age children, 110,098 pounds of food, 1,452 boxes of USDA food staples and provided financial assistance to keep 265 families in their home, 74 families with heat, 29 neighbors with scholarship, healthcare, fuel or transportation help and sold 101,864 items in their Thrift Store. Learn more at www.LiftUpRC.org.
The Gathering Place
The mission of The Gathering Place is to provide a community of safety and hope where positive relationships, choice, and essential resources transform lives. TGP is the only agency in metropolitan Denver specifically dedicated to serving women, transgender individuals, and their children who are experiencing poverty and homelessness.
Food Bank for Larimer County
Grant funds will be used to purchase food from local producers for distribution through our Fresh Food Share pantries. Our largest program, Fresh Food Share distributes enough food for nearly 7 million meals each year. Families and individuals facing hunger can pick up free groceries at our traditional and mobile food pantries in Fort Collins, Loveland and Berthoud. By helping the Food Bank for Larimer County purchase more food from local sources, this grant will increase the variety of fresh, nutritious options available at our pantries.
Now Faith Church
Now Faith has been meeting community needs for over 38 years, providing pop-up food assistance to our Northeast Denver and Aurora Communities. We realize we show the love of Christ by being servants in our community and feeding his people both spiritually and naturally.
OUR Center
OUR Center's mission is to help people move toward self-sufficiency, first by helping them meet their basic survival needs such as food, housing, utilities, childcare, clothing or affordable child care, and then by providing budget counseling financial literacy education, and case management services to assist them in moving out of generational and/or situational poverty.
Las Animas Helping Hands
Las Animas Helping Hands seeks to provide emergency assistance to individuals and families in Bent County and the surrounding area while providing opportunities to develop self-sufficiency. We consider all requests.
YMCA of Metro Denver
The YMCA Beyond Hunger program works to ensure all have access to healthy and nutritious food. Food is distributed weekly and includes bags filled with a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, proteins, dairy, and grains. The bags are first come, first serve, and pick up will be curbside.
Denver Green School Food Pantry
Food Pantry available every Saturday from 10:00-12:00 at Denver Green School 6700 East Virginia Ave. All are welcome. We are a totally choice food pantry. Please come and choose the foods you enjoy eating.
Spirit of the Sun
An Indigenous womxn-led nonprofit located on Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho) land, Comanche, and 48+ other tribes sacred land, working to empower Native communities, one youth at a time.
Rising Up
Rising Up manages and operates the Client Choice Food Pantry, the largest food pantry in Northeastern Colorado. The Client Choice Food Pantry is just what it says it is by allowing people to choose for themselves what products they receive. It is a critical part of Morgan County's efforts to end hunger as it empowers choice which provides a sense of dignity and control, and allows for the help received to be the best possible fit for each unique situation. Engaging constituents through direct relationship and open dialogue is critical to providing a service that best meets the needs of the community with compassion and respect.
Lifespan Local
Lifespan's mission is to cultivate community well-being through partnerships with local residents and community champions. Part of this work includes leading the Southwest Food Coalition - a group of food champions dedicated to addressing food insecurity and food sovereignty at a hyper local level.
Food for Hope
The mission of Food for Hope is we empower and nourish our community by providing nutritious food to children in need. Our organization works with school districts to identify students struggling with hunger and get them the resources they need.
A Woman’s Place
A Woman's Place is a domestic violence safehouse located in Greeley, Colorado. We operate a confidential food pantry to provide food to residents staying at the shelter. Our 29-bed facility is the only domestic violence shelter in Weld County.
Sister Carmen Community Center
Sister Carmen Community Center (SCCC) is a non-religious agency that has provided assistance to residents of East Boulder County who are in need, without discrimination, since 1978. Our origins stem from Sister Carmen Ptacnik, a Catholic nun who was assigned to assess the needs of the people in Lafayette, Colorado in 1970. She distributed food and clothing to anyone in need and particularly connected with the Spanish speaking population. The community embraced and continued her humanitarian efforts, leading us to eventually become the organization we are today, offering critical resources to thousands of individuals and families and distributing over 1 million pounds of food a year.
Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley
The Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley, a program of La Puente Home, addresses the immediacy of hunger and malnutrition in the San Luis Valley by providing nutritious food to individuals and families in need.
Fresh Start Center
Fresh Start Center was founded in 2006 under the name High Plains Helping Hands, and focuses on fighting hunger and poverty for families in the Pikes Peak and Eastern Plains regions of Colorado. Please visit www.freshstartcenter.com to find out more!
Homeward Alliance
Homeward Alliance is a Larimer County-based non-profit that exists to empower individual and families who face homelessness to survive, move forward and thrive. We provide a range of services to about 5,000 individuals each year: everything from basic-needs assistance to behavioral healthcare, employment- and housing-focused case management, and more. We are also the Homeless Management Information System Lead Agency for the recently formed Northern Colorado Continuum of Care. We operate the Murphy Center—host to 20 independent nonprofits and the hub of services for people experiencing housing insecurity in Larimer County.
Denver Dream Center
Providing Hope for the Hopeless
BGOLDN
BGOLDN launched in March 2020 as an evolution of The Golden Backpack
Program and a response to rising food insecurity in Golden, Colorado. As our community begins to transition out of the crisis caused by COVID-19, BGOLDN is recentering programming that increases food security for Golden area students and their families.
Food Bank of the Rockies
As the largest hunger relief organization in the Rocky Mountain Region and with the mission to ignite the power of community to nourish people facing hunger, Food Bank of the Rockies is uniquely suited to answer the enormous challenge of food insecurity that currently affects one out of every eight Coloradans. During 2020 and the height of the pandemic, Food Bank of the Rockies distributed more than 100 million pounds of food across our total service area. We currently work with 673 Hunger Relief Partners throughout Northern Colorado and offer direct services to ensure that nutritious food is being provided with compassion and care to the individuals who need it most.
Center Toward Self-Reliance
Our agency provides services and supports to individuals with disabilities in Southeastern Colorado. Our food pantry mainly focuses on Pueblo and Fremont Counties and is open to anyone in need whether or not they have a disability.
Mt. Carmel Health, Wellness and Community Center
Mt. Carmel’s mission is to provide integrated healthcare, wellness, and community spirit. We collaborate with community partners to provide services that nurture mind, body, and spirit. Mt. Carmel programming improves the current and future wellbeing of residents in southern Colorado and includes wellness programs for senior and adult populations, youth programs which offer unique educational opportunities, and a food distribution program to ease food insecurity for our most at-risk populations and provide education and support around food preparation and healthy food choices.
Muslim Youth for Positive Impact
Founded in 2018, MYPI is a grassroots non-profit organization, empowering youth with the Islamic identity and principles to make a positive impact on their communities, environment and relationships that promote responsible citizenship and stewardship. MYPI builds bridges between youth and community leaders with the goal of empowering youth to achieve individual success and realize a better tomorrow. www.mypi.org
HomewardBound of the Grand Valley, Inc.
Our mission is "From surviving to thriving: Changing the perception of homelessness!"
Pikes Peak Christian Church
We are committed to connecting seekers, growing believers, building families and impacting communities. We achieve this by creating environments that help you encounter God, hear his voice and say yes to Him.
Little Chapel Food Pantry
We are a food Pantry in Teller County serving over 300 families in need of extra help for food. The grant will give us the opportunity to purchase things like locally produced meat, milk, cheese, eggs, and/or produce that we do not normally get in donations.
Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado
At Care and Share Food Bank, we believe that no one should go hungry. Our mission is to provide food, partnering opportunities, and education to combat hunger and food insecurity in Southern Colorado communities. Our core purpose is to bridge the gap between hunger and abundance.
Comitis Crisis Center
Aurora's only Emergency Shelter provides hot meals for individuals and families. Located on the Anschutz Campus at 2178 Victor Street. Meals are also served to adults at the Aurora Day Resource Center located at 13387 E. 19th Place.
God’s Will Christian Fellowship (GWCF)
My sincerest prayer for you is that you enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you do not know Jesus personally, I would love the opportunity to introduce Him to you!
Restoration Outreach Programs
ROP serves the East Colfax community in northwest Aurora and east Denver with a Food Bank, ESL classes, Work Readiness training, and children's and youth programs and mentoring
Cherishing Life Youth Transformation Services
Cherishing Life Youth Transformation Services has been developed to provide higher education preparation, nutrition support and life skills development to youth and young adults.
Small Town Project-Rocky Ford Food Share
Our goal is to improve health equity in our community and establish programs that will improve quality of life, enhance the local economy, empower underserved people, and promote a sense of community. The Rocky Ford Food Share has provided over 250,000 pounds of food to over 15,000 people in southeast Colorado!
The GrowHaus
The GrowHaus is a nonprofit organization in North Denver working to cultivate community-driven food justice through food access and food and wellness education. We are currently running a no-cost and low-cost food distribution program reaching 500 families in Globeville and Elyria-Swansea every week.
Durango Food Bank
Working in Collaboration with our community to feed and empower our neighbors in need.
Tin Shed Food Pantry
Food Pantry that distributes once a week to 140 families every Wednesday from 4:00-6:00 pm located at 10555 W. 44th Ave, Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033
Somebody Cares Project/EM Food Pantry
We are the Somebody Cares Project Our EM Food Pantry is also one of the many other things we do under our Somebody Cares Project. Our EM Food Pantry is a mobile pantry that covers Las Animas County . The largest county in Colorado. With over 14,000 people. We set up a one day place to shop for clients in community centers and picnic areas in very isolated communities. Our pantries set up in five areas once a month. For many we are the only food resource they have. Serving Seniors, singles, Vet's and families. WE also have pick up and delivery as needed three times a week.
Community Ministry of Southwest Denver
Community Ministry has been serving the Denver area for 53 years providing basic needs such as food, children's clothing, utility assistance, school supplies, holiday food boxes and gifts. It also works with other organizations to provide wrap-around services such as pet food, cooking classes and medical clinics.
Southwest Improvement Council
Over the years, SWIC has grown to provide services addressing wellness, health promotion, disease prevention, nutrition, socialization, and aging-in-place for older adults, and education, recreation, employment, affordable housing, housing counseling and homebuyer education for younger community members. For the past 30 years, SWIC has operated in the Westwood Community Center. As an on-the-ground provider of vital services to low-income residents in Westwood, Villa Park, Valverde, Barnum West, Barnum, Athmar Park, Mar Lee, and Ruby Hill, SWIC has a deep and unique perspective on the challenges faced by the communities it serves, such as food and nutrition insecurity and limited access to services for older adults.
Harvest of Hope Pantry
Our mission is to provide healthy supplemental food to Boulder families and individuals in need of food assistance within a safe, welcoming and non-judgmental environment.
Backpack Society
Happy hearts and bright futures start with full bellies. Backpack Society's mission is to remove food insecurity as an obstacle for children so they can grow, learn, and thrive.
Lynn Gardens Baptist Church
Weekly food pantry. 1st, 2nd, and 4th Thursdays as well as 3rd Wednesday. Days subject to change for holidays.
Salida senior Citizens, Inc. dba Salida Community Center
The S.C.C. is providing food to over 900 low-come individuals, families, and seniors on a monthly basis.
St. Augustine Food Pantry
Support for our ability to provide more meat and produce to our clients.
Lord’s Daily Bread
Lord's Daily Bread provides food, counseling and referrals to the poor and homeless in the Denver Metro area, transforming lives while restoring hope and dignity. For over 20 years, LBD has provided lifesaving resources to some of the most vulnerable people in Denver, who are at particular risk of hunger and disconnection from resources during the current pandemic.
The Pantry of Fremont
The Pantry of Fremont is an all volunteer client choice food pantry serving our neighbors in Canon City and all of Fremont County who need food assistance.
Eastside Action Support Team
We are a non-profit on the East Side of Pueblo. We are committed to improving the image of the east side of Pueblo through community outreach programs. We seek to increase the quality and safety of our neighborhoods, working with law enforcement and other communities and organizations. We currently oversee a Mobile Food Bank at Lucero Library on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month.
Growing Home
Growing Home is dedicated to creating a thriving and equitable north Denver metro area, one family at a time. Our participant-centered approach to strengthening families, nurturing children and connecting community fills a critical gap for families and children who are experiencing immediate and long-term barriers to stability and success.
Pueblo Food Project
The goal of Pueblo Food Project is to create a more vibrant, nutritious, sustainable, and equitable food system for every eater in Pueblo county. The PFP community pantry partners with charitable feeding organizations to provide local foods that Pueblo residents recognize and enjoy.
Caring & Sharing Community Resources and Transformation Center
Caring and Sharing is a non-profit sharing food, clothes, mentoring, scholarships, and other resources.
Bayaud Enterprises
A Food Pantry that serves the City and County of Denver, along with those in surrounding neighbors. Full access to the pantry for everyone is every Thursday between 9AM and 3PM. The pantry supports around 60 to 80 individuals on a weekly basis.
Prairie Family Center
Our Mission, Your Success!
St. Patrick's Episcopal Church Food Pantry
Our mission is to reach all who are experiencing food insecurity, and provide fresh, nutritionally dense food packages to any in need.
Pueblo Cooperative Care Center
Pueblo Cooperative Care Center (PCCC) serves low income, no income, homeless, homebound, disabled, senior citizens and veterans from Pueblo County, and includes Pueblo and the most rural and isolated communities of Avondale, Beulah Valley, Blende, Boone, Colorado City, Pueblo West, Rye, Salt Creek and Vineland. For nearly 40 years PCCC has been providing emergency food pantry services (Food Sack Program) to individuals and families who are needy and experiencing food insecurity and struggling with hunger. All services are provided at zero cost to clients.
Concrete Couch
To work with kids and community groups to create public art, to build community, and to create environments and experiences that humanize our world.
Manna Soup Kitchen
The mission of Manna is to provide, in the spirit of faith and love, nourishing meals and supportive services in an atmosphere of acceptance and caring for those in need.
Metro State University Foundation/Food For Thought Pantry
The Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation, Inc., Roadrunner Food Pantry serves to fight hunger on campus by providing basic nutritional food for students in times of need. The Roadrunner Food Pantry is available to all Metropolitan State University of Denver students, provides snacks and pantry items for meal preparation, and is aligned with additional resources on and off campus that promote the overall well-being of our students.
Family & Intercultural Resource Center (FIRC)
The Family & Intercultural Resource Center (FIRC) promotes stable families.