Building Food Systems
Photo by Luna Anna Archey / Special to The Colorado Trust
Overview
The purpose of this initiative is to fund entities that provide assistance and supportive services for those experiencing food insecurity, and funding for those systems that are seeking to address food inequities.
Grantees
Colorado Food Cluster, Inc.
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.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $353,968
Food to Power
Support for piloting and evaluating five new programs and expanding three established programs to overcome barriers to fresh food access in four communities.
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Grant amount: $353,457
Fresh Food Connect
Support for expanding donations of homegrown food, pickup of fresh produce and delivery to 265 Colorado zip codes.
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Grant amount: $317,400
FrontLine Farming
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.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Good Food Collective
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)
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $354,874
Healthy Archuleta
Support for creating a campaign that aims to change the narrative that there’s not enough food, housing, jobs or access to water in Archuleta County, and engaging community members to grow and eat their own healthy foods and create systems and policies to increase access to nutritious food and increase economic stability.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Project Protect Food Systems Workers
Support for delivering boxes of nutritious food to marginalized rural communities through a culturally and linguistically tailored approach, and providing education materials promoting healthy eating in Colorado’s agricultural worker communities.
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Grant amount: $355,000
Re:Vision
Support for creating an urban garden growing 40,000 pounds of food and distributing community-supported agriculture boxes at Denver Health community health centers and the organization’s no-cost grocery.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Rocky Mountain SER/Jobs for Progress, Inc.
Support for providing a grocery delivery service, food pantry and distribution support, education and community engagement, and farm-to-consumer initiatives.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $352,963
San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition
Support for strengthening and building a sustainable food system by identifying community priorities and implementing priority projects to increase access to nutritious foods, increase economic stability for those facing food insecurity and promote healthy eating through a sustainable food system.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
Solid Rock Community Development Corporation
Support for increasing distribution days and farmers markets and outreach to homebound residents, increasing food education programs, establishing a sustainable aquaponic farm and strengthening a coalition working to address food insecurity.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $350,000
Spirit of the Sun
Support for enhancing food access, nutrition education and sustainable Indigenous agriculture, including through traditional agriculture practices, food distribution, providing nutrition and cooking classes for Native youth and establishing an Indigenous seed library.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $336,841
Summit County Family Resource Center
Support for creating a community-based collaborative coordinating food relief work, developing a sustainability plan to secure future funding for the work, using different approaches to address the stigma associated with food assistance and educating the public about food insecurity.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $355,000
The Northern Colorado Foodshed Project
Support for a mobile farmers market approach with streamlined access to federal and state food benefits, providing a market with reduced production costs for local producers and no-cost food shopping for residents in need.
For more information, visit the organization’s website.
Grant amount: $323,388
The Small Town Project
Support for implementing a food ordering and delivery system to address transportation being a barrier to accessing food and for engaging the community and developing innovative solutions to building food systems.
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Grant amount: $354,990
