Meet Our Community Partners

Let's work together to promote healthy meals for students throughout Colorado!

The steering committee of the Healthy School Meals for All campaign is excited to announce its 40 community-based organization partners who will receive grants to support their work. Their efforts will focus on continuing to uplift the new school meals program, now available in every eligible school district across Colorado.

To ensure every child has the right to access nutritious and delicious meals, we partnered with SE2, formed a steering committee of diverse community members, and pledged $370,000 to encourage community-based organizations to support and actively promote the program locally. The 12-month grants will support outreach for the 2023 - 2024 and 2024 - 2025 school years. 

Community-based organizations applied for grants from $5,000 - $20,000 to launch new activities or fund existing efforts. Funding is provided by the Colorado Access Foundation and The Colorado Health Foundation.

Meet our newly funded partners (in alphabetical order by first name):

  • Amigos De Mexico

  • Benefits in Action

  • Black Parent Network

  • Brujula Communitaria

  • Colorado Ethiopian Community

  • Daddy Bruce Legacy Foundation

  • Denver Inner City Parish

  • Food to Power

  • Four Corners Food Coalition (with Mancos Valley Resources as their fiscal sponsor)

  • FrontLine Farming

  • Full Circle of Lake County

  • Golden Backpack Program

  • Good Food Collective

  • Healthy Archuleta

  • Homeward Alliance

  • Jefferson Food Policy Council (with Trailhead Institute as their fiscal sponsor)

  • JnCFarmCO

  • Kids at Their Best

  • La Raza Services

  • Latinas Community Connections Services (with Edgewater Collective as their fiscal sponsor)

  • Montbello Organizing Committee

  • Mountain Resource Center

  • Nourish Colorado

  • Ogallala Commons

  • Pueblo Food Project

  • Pueblo United

  • Rocky Mountain Welcome Center

  • S.A.N.A., Safe and Abundant Nutrition Alliance (with Trailhead Institute as their fiscal sponsor)

  • Southeast Food Coalition

  • The Ag & Food Lab

  • The Barton Institute DBA Commun

  • The Crystal River Valley NON-PROFIT Food Co-Op

  • The GrowHaus

  • Team UP Southwest Colorado / United Way of Southwest Colorado

  • VIVE

  • Voces de Comunidad

  • WeeCycle

  • Weld County School

  • Western Colorado Food and Agriculture Council DBA Valley Food Partnership

  • Wild Boyd Farm, LLC