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Accessing Healthy Foods

Photo by Valerie Mosley / Special to The Colorado Trust

Overview

The Colorado Trust is seeking to increase access to nutritious and affordable food for those who face barriers to living a long and healthy life. The purpose of this initiative is to fund entities that support expanded access to nutritious food, as well as activities that promote healthy eating.

Grantees

Adams Arapahoe School District 28-J

Support for providing fresh, local and culturally relevant foods to two district food clinics and for monthly pop-up food markets that serve students, families and caregivers.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $330,000

Boulder County Public Health

Support for providing monthly coupons for the purchase of fresh food to people ineligible for federal food assistance, including marginalized and immigrant communities.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

Colorado League of Charter Schools

Support for increasing access to nutritious and affordable food for 12 rural charter schools by enhancing infrastructure and providing access to resources.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $345,941

Food Bank of the Rockies

Support for procuring fresh foods from producers and farmers to distribute at no cost.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $352,500

Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8

Support for expanding the food pantry program to provide additional food assistance in Fountain and the Fort Carson Army installation, focusing on accessibility, nutritious food, education and creating two distribution sites in Fountain.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $345,340

Hunger Free Colorado

Support for school-nutrition community advisory councils to promote access to nutritious, culturally relevant foods, and helping implement new legislation, particularly in rural school districts.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

La Puente Home

Support for purchasing food and distributing it as part of the Food Bank Network of the San Luis Valley, and for nutritional and food systems education.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

Loaves & Fishes Ministries of Fremont County

Support for establishing a client-choice food pantry in partnership with the local school district, providing meals for students over the weekends and school breaks, and expanding the mobile food pantry to remote communities.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $309,332

Love Inc. of the Yampa Valley

Support for expanding the food pantry in Craig and extending food delivery to distribution sites in rural communities.

For more infomation, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $316,391

Mountain Roots Food Project

Support for expanding access to nutritious food, promoting healthy eating and increasing economic stability for families in Gunnison County, including via a fresh-food box program and cooking skills education.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $338,645

Project Angel Heart

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

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

The Growhaus

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.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $354,794

Valley Meals and More

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.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $326,442

We Don’t Waste, Inc.

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.

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $352,662

Weld Food Bank

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

For more information, visit the organization’s website.

Grant amount: $355,000

Staff

Mia Ramirez

Program Manager

Learn about the health equity issues affecting Coloradans at Collective Colorado, a publication of The Colorado Trust.