SEVENTH ROUND GRANTEES
Sheridan Rising Together for Equity
The purpose of Sheridan Rising together for equity is to improve health equity in the city of Sheridan by empowering the community, advocating, organizing, and educating.
Mountain Roots Food Project
Mountain Roots is a food systems initiative. Our role in community food security & hunger relief is to provide fresh healthy produce + healthy prepared meals to residents who have had significant impacts from COVID. We break down barriers of cost, mobility/transportation, and stigma, and ensure people in need are not just fed, but nourished. Moving forward, we aim to balance the need to meet urgent food needs with increasing capacity to address root causes/systemic issues around food security.
Las Animas School District RE-1
Support and expand on a Care and Share student food pantry that would be open to public every Monday, purchasing of special dietary needs, food packaging, sanitation supplies, breakfast and lunch to include healthy snacks for children (Friday-Sunday). Creating a fortified space within the school district for these foods to include storage options. Help student families with the cost of their utilities by supplementing them with a local money system of "Bonus Bucks".
Bienvenidos Food Bank
Our mission is to provide emergency and supplemental food assistance in ways that promote respect and dignity.
Ekar Farm
Ekar Farm works for individual, organizational and systemic change in the food system. Ekar shifted in 2020 to respond to growing food insecurity. Our mission remains to connect and educate people and organizations to and about the food system, to activate participants and organizations to create a more just food system, and to donate produce to food pantry partners. This year programs went virtual, we expanded our produce operation, and we increased community partnerships.
Project Protect Food Systems
Project Protect Food Systems manages the Project Protect Promotora Network. The purpose of which is to bring resources to rural agricultural communities where the impact of COVID on workers and communities has and continues to be devastating.
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.
San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition
SLVLFC’s mission is to foster an equitable local food system that restores the health of the people, community, economy and ecosystem. Through our partnerships, we hope to bring local food to the most vulnerable people in our community.
Mountain Resource Center
The mission of Mountain Resource Center is to strengthen its community with services that empower people.
Mile High 360
To not let socio-economic status define a child's future.
Manna - The Durango 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. Manna's vision is to be a leader in building strength, resilience and equity in La Plata County, through innovative and holistic services that cultivate a sustainable future with our community.
Project Worthmore
To provide programs that foster community, self-sufficiency and increase quality of life among Denver-area refugees.
Pueblo Food Project
The purpose of the Pueblo Food Project, in concert with a diverse group of stakeholders, is to identify opportunities and challenges in the food value chain, research and develop actionable plans, inspire change and connect resources. The goal of the Pueblo Food Project is to create a more vibrant, nutritious and equitable food system for every eater in Pueblo County.
The Cool Choice
The Cool Choice mission is to provide individuals and families opportunities to live, eat and play well. We offer programs and services that provides food support, culinary development, gardening skills and nutrition education to underserved resident in the Denver Metro and Aurora communities.
Family Resource Center
The Family Resource Center is dedicated to encouraging the development of healthy children and strong family units by providing support systems, education, and referral services in Logan County, Colorado. With this round of funding, FRC wishes to expand our Blessing Box food program to make free, nutritious food more accessible to those without transportation and to children.
Work Options for Women
The mission of Work Options for Women is to help people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary job training.
Mile High Farmers
Mile High Farmers promotes the growth of agriculture in the Denver metro area through urban farmer advocacy, collaboration among farmers and their communities, and eater education. Our constituents organize as eight working committees that collaborate on initiatives that support farmer education and resilience, land access, pro-urban farming policy expansion, and increased equity within the local food system and the people who work in it.
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.
Living Water Ministry Outreach
To provide food, resource navigation, education, and life skills to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged residents of Aurora and Denver through collaboration and cooperation with nonprofits, private agencies, and individual contributors.
Fighting to Farm
Fighting to Farm’s mission is to end hunger and food insecurity in underrepresented, underserved rural communities in Colorado that are oftentimes overlooked. 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.
Pine River Shares
Pine River Shares, a leadership project serving rural/frontier communities of E. La Plata county, brings together the knowledge, skills and resources of people in the Pine River Valley to increase our collective power and bring about positive social change resulting in healthy, thriving communities.
Clifton Christian Church Food and Clothing
Christian Clifton Church Food and Clothing our mission is provides nutritious food and clothing to those individuals in need, showing these individuals love, compassion and respect, and touching each one with the Love of Christ such that they know they are important and have purpose.
Aurora Warms the Night
We strive to assist individuals and families on the East Colfax corridor in order for them to evolve into self-sufficient members of their communities. This involves services like: regular meals and weekly food boxes, case management, active outreach, winter clothing, and tremendous time and effort. Aurora Warms The Night is already making a major impact on the city by serving the underserved everyday.
Community Partnership Family Resource Center (CP)
CP’s Community Vision and desired outcome is that “All Teller County families are self-reliant, fully functional and positive contributors to our community.” This is achieved by applying the Organizational Mission: “CP delivers programs and services that strengthen families.”
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 20,000 families, providing enough food for over 800,000 meals.
Via Mobility Services
Via’s mission is to promote independence and self-sufficiency for people with limited mobility by providing caring, customer-focused transportation options. We envision a future where all people, regardless of age, health, disability, income or ethnicity have easy access to the mobility options they need to enhance their independence and quality of life.
Eagle Valley Community Foundation
TCM operates a warehouse in Gypsum and a valley-wide food distribution network in vulnerable neighborhoods five days/week. In May, we opened a second brick and mortar location in Edwards open 3 days/week. TCM customer numbers have quadrupled in response to COVID-19.
Arvada Community Food Bank (Community Table)
Since 1982, we have been building a stronger, more resilient community by providing nourishment to struggling families along with the resources and support they need to become self-reliant. Our food programs include: Client Choice Pantry, Drive-Thru Food Distribution (in response to the pandemic), Mobile Pantry, Home Deliveries, and Feeding the Future (weekend food for hungry school kids).
WeeCycle
WeeCycle collects essential baby gear (including baby food/formula, diapers and wipes) and matches it to Colorado families in need through partner organizations focused on individuals experiencing poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, teen pregnancy, under-employment, and those serving immigrants and refugees.
Caring & Sharing Community Resources and Transformation Center
The primary goal of our work is to help as many individuals and families as possible have access to food during the Pandemic. Our goal is to deliver food and have open drive through and walk up food services weekly to our food pantry to help displaced and disadvantaged community members. The purpose of our work is to help fight food insecurity in low income and high risk areas as well as to help Colorado stop the spread of the virus.
Redeeming Love
To provide a reliable source of food to vulnerable populations reducing food anxiety and insecurity.
St. Augustine Food Pantry
The St. Augustine Community Food Pantry is dedicated to providing supplemental food and hygiene products to those in need of assistance in the Greater Brighton community. It is our goal to provide all clients with essential items including food, personal hygiene and baby products. All clients will be treated with dignity and respect. The pantry will operate on a non-discriminatory basis in the recruitment of volunteers and the delivery of services to clients.
Cloud City Conservation Center
As a leading member of the Lake County Food Access Coalition and the Lake County COVID-19 food relief effort Cloud City Conservation Center seeks to ensure that no Lake County family goes hungry due to lack of resources, including financial, transportation, or other challenges.
Colorado Farm to Table (CFTT)
Since 1996, CFTT's farm has provided on average 125,000 pounds of produce to food pantries, soup kitchens, and elderly housing facilities to combat hunger in Colorado. Despite the large agricultural industry in Colorado and the many organizations dedicated to alleviating hunger, CFTT is the only Colorado non-profit organization that combines both a successful farming operation and an anti-hunger mission on our 20-acre farm. Our purpose is to feed the hungry.
Friends of Longmont Youth
Our collaboration serves diverse, low-income communities in Longmont facing serious barriers to food access by delivering no-cost meals and groceries to these neighborhoods. During distribution, we also provide families with bilingual mental health, academic, housing, financial, and other supports.
Center for Rural Outreach and Public Services, Inc.
The mission of CROPS is to alleviate poverty in rural America by growing a new generation of leaders for the future. CROPS provides intergenerational leadership development and capacity building services. CROPS has an office on the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe reservation shared with Juanita PlentyHoles, former Councilwoman, Tiwahe Director, and CROPS Colorado State Registered Agent.
Commún
Commún’s food programs serve over 30,000lbs of food to 1600+ individuals per week. We work toward local food security by growing and giving away organic vegetables with the support of youth and community volunteers. Led and carried out by affected community members, we are working to provide dependable, accessible, and culturally appropriate food for all who need it.
Denver Dream Center
To "Rescue People - Rebuild Lives - Restore Dreams" We focus on finding needs and meeting needs with core values connected to expanding partnerships, strengthening communities, and releasing resources. With the COVID crisis most of our programs are committed to addressing immediate needs that underserved communities are facing and providing resources and structure to address the immediate needs while creating long term sustainability.
DSST: Cole High School
DSST Public Schools transform urban public education by eliminating educational inequity and preparing all students for success in college and the 21st century. DSST Public Schools is a values-driven organization and a deliberately integrated community, serving students from all walks of life. We aim to provide equitable supports for our students and families, including access to food.
CharterChoice Collaborative (SFA)
CharterChoice is a charter school collaborative, School Food Authority (SFA) and non-profit organization that offers charter schools in Colorado access to reimbursable meal programs for their students with an emphasis on healthy food.
Homeward Alliance
Homeward Alliance's mission is to empower individuals and families who face homelessness to survive, move forward and thrive. We are currently operating the city's inclement weather day shelter locations, Larimer County's only Isolation, Recovery and Quarantine Site and the Murphy Center (a 7-day/week resource center), along with 10 programs and initiatives. We will shortly begin operations of the Fort Collins's non-congregate (motels) shelter for people highly vulnerable to COVID-19.
Longmont Food Rescue
To redistribute nutritious food that retailers have deemed food ‘waste’ to feed hungry, homeless, and low-income populations directly. Cores values: hunger relief; food justice; just-in-time collaborative food redistribution; reduce landfill waste and associated environmental impacts.
Athmar Park Neighborhood Association
APNA is a nonprofit organization and a registered neighborhood association (RNO) with the city of Denver.
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.
Center Consolidated Schools, 26JT
Our primary goal is to ensure our students and their families have the resources they need during this time. We want to ensure that we are able to provide those resources in a safe manner. The District mission is "to develop independent, self directed, self motivated, adventurous, risk taking, experiential learners armed with the skills necessary to meet the challenges they will face in the 21st Century." In order to learn, our youth must have their basic needs met, including those around food.
Wally’s Food Delivery
We transport food to those who need it. We rescue leftover food from food banks around Denver and bring them to indigenous elders in Denver and on the Hopi reservation. We also bring food to people living without houses.
Metro Caring
Metro Caring works with the community to meet people’s immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger.
Reaching Out to Community and Kids (ROCK)
Our mission is to build a stronger, healthier, and more prosperous community by providing access to healthful food, youth enrichment activities, and community activities and events that are otherwise not available in our rural area.
Homeward Bound of the Grand Valley, Inc.
With the mission Surviving to Thriving; Changing the Perception of Homelessness!, HomewardBound provides homeless individuals/families with short-term shelter and meals, and with the tools supports and encouragement for transitioning to stable housing community (re)integration and improved autonomy.
Food For Thought Denver
Eliminating weekend childhood hunger in Denver area.
Small Town Project
The Rocky Ford Food Share Project provides targeted assistance to underserved populations and works to address health equity issues in rural southeast Colorado by empowering people with access to healthy, organic, and locally grown food.
Kaizen Food Rescue
Kaizen Food Rescue (KFR) is a BIPOC and womxn-led nonprofit organization with zero staff. In September, KFR saw a 2,628% increase due to COVID-19. For September, a value of $730,192 worth of food was shared (437,241 pounds) across Metro Denver at 12 pop-up locations.
Second Chance Center
We work with formerly incarcerated people - all are low-income, many are homeless - providing food/housing/basic needs, peer mentoring, mental health/addictions counseling, job training & placement. Our permanent supportive housing project serves formerly homeless people, including families. People leaving prison look to SCC for both practical needs and emotional support. We begin the human connection they need with food. Blueprint funding allows us to provide nourishing and enjoyable food, even for those in tenuous living situations with no cooking facilities. It is hugely important to us that the meals we provide do more than meet the requisite calorie count. They must nourish the heart and soul as well as the body.
Restoration Outreach Programs
ROP’s food bank on East Colfax serves 80 families/week with an average of 25 pounds of food distributed per household. Additionally, ROP understands we are a part of our community and wants to give back to our neighborhood businesses. Thus, part of this request is to pay for $25 gift cards to locally-owned restaurants near our building near Dayton and East Colfax. Many of these restaurants are owned by immigrants, refugees, and/or people of color.
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, with a vision of ending hunger in Southern Colorado.
Colorado High School Charter
Colorado High School Charter is transforming the alternative education experience by igniting the potential within each of the diverse young people we serve. CHSC ensures students’ personal and academic growth by creating tailored curricula, a supportive school environment, and community partnerships. We empower our students to succeed in life and positively contribute to their families and communities by offering them the freedom and resources to pursue a post-secondary path aligned with their individualized goals.
The Urban Farm
The Urban Farm (TUF) is a community farm and educational center, which provides the opportunity for urban residents to participate in agriculture by removing the barriers to entry such as land access, time, location and finances. TUF inspires excitement for learning through practical work experience and hands-on education while fostering respect, responsibility, curiosity, compassion and grit.
Smart Bellies
Smart Bellies Backpack Food Program strives to eliminate childhood hunger in Summit County, CO on the weekends by providing bags full of nutritious food, allowing children to get the full benefit of their education and development.
Erie Uplink
Erie UpLink is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization committed to connecting Erie families with resources to fulfill their basic life needs, including connecting Erie families with opportunities to be of service to one another. Through our Tiger Packs food-assistance program, we provide food and seasonal items to students attending our 7 Erie partner schools. www.erieuplink.org
Foodshed Alliance
Foodshed Alliance organizes the farmers markets in Salida and Buena Vista, with the mission to strengthen relationships between local producers and consumers; elevate our agricultural, cottage foods, concessionaire, and crafter small businesses; and empower our community to support a thriving, sustainable local food economy.
Gunnison Country Food Pantry
Gunnison Country Food Pantry provides food assistance to those-in-need in Gunnison County. The Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger grant is funding our primary facility and supporting temperature-controlled storage spaces for six months allowing the Pantry to distribute food weekly to more than 1,125 households.