Grantees

Support for addressing food insecurity and improving access to healthy, local and affordable food options in low-income, low-access areas by introducing healthy food in retail sites, increasing access to nutritious foods in institutional food programs, strengthening the middle of the supply chain, empowering underserved communities and strengthening the regional food systems backbone. (Fiscal sponsor: Onward! A Legacy Foundation)

Support for maintaining subsidized and free community-supported agriculture shares for high-need community members, expanding no-cost grocery and healing programs, providing vocational training, increasing community engagement through classes, and improving food access via delivery and localized pickup sites.  

Support for expanding donations of homegrown food, pickup of fresh produce and delivery to 265 Colorado zip codes.

Support for piloting and evaluating five new programs and expanding three established programs to overcome barriers to fresh food access in four communities. 

Support for expanding meal delivery; offering diverse programs through child care centers, family child care homes and afterschool programs; and providing meals to online learners and through Medicaid Home and Community Based meal delivery.   

Support for distributing nutritious, cost-prohibitive, perishable foods to disadvantaged and underserved areas in the county through a mobile food bank.

Support for adding a new mobile food market location and increasing staff, as well as expanding a network of food donors and engagement with K-12 students.

Support for delivering produce and food boxes and for offering medically tailored meals to increase access to healthy and affordable foods for older adults who face barriers to obtaining food independently.

Support for launching an educational fresh food market, helping patrons obtain and use federal food benefits, and for nutrition education programs such as cooking classes or during home visits.

Support for preparing and delivering meals to diverse groups of low-income Coloradans living with illnesses.