Grantees

Support for teaching traditional agricultural practices, coordinating food distribution programs, conducting nutrition and cooking classes for Native youth within the Denver metro area, and establishing an Indigenous seed library.

Support for increasing food distribution days, farmer’s markets, and outreach to homebound residents; increasing food education programs; establishing and managing an AquaPonic Farm in southeast Colorado Springs; providing education on growing food; and strengthening the Southeast Colorado Springs Food Security Coalition.

Support for increasing access to nutritious and locally grown food by conducting community action planning and implementing action items that arise as priorities, and other projects.

Support for integrating the organization’s network of food pantries, governmental assistance programs and food distribution strategies; operating a grocery delivery service, food pantry and distribution support for clients; providing education and community engagement; and implementing farm-to-consumer initiatives.

Support for expanding food security work in southwest Denver by creating an urban garden for local residents, distributing community-supported agriculture boxes at Denver Health community health centers and at Re:Vision’s weekly no-cost grocery store, delivering an intergenerational food security and nutrition curriculum, and enrolling residents into benefits programs.

Support for the Project Protect Promotora Network to deliver boxes of nutritious food and educational materials to rural community members and Colorado’s agricultural worker communities.

Support for implementing a social marketing campaign to shift perceptions of growing and eating more fresh and local foods, engaging the community and creating systems and policies to help increase access to nutritious food, increase economic stability for those experiencing food insecurity, and promote healthy eating.

Support for introducing healthy food options in retail sites, increasing access to nutritious foods in institutional food programs, strengthening the middle of the supply chain, and strengthening the regional food system in southwest Colorado.

Support to maintain subsidized and free community-supported agriculture (CSA) shares for high-need community members; expand no-cost grocery and healing foods programs; offer vocational training to develop skilled farmers who sustainably produce nutritious food and are well-versed in food justice advocacy; deliver classes on topics related to home- and community-scale food cultivation; and coordinate delivery and localized pickup sites to customers and partners including food banks, nonprofits and CSA customers.

Support for operating a mobile app that allows for local growers to donate homegrown produce. The project aims to expand access to fresh, homegrown produce to 50% of all Colorado zip codes.