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No Cost Grocery Program Partners

 

Globeville – Birdseed Collective   (open to the public)

Elyria-Swansea – The GrowHaus  (open to the public with some limitations)

Clayton – Clayton Early Learning (closed due to covid)

Curtis Park & Jefferson Park  – Family Star 

Park Hill – Boys & Girls Clubs (Vickers) (open to the public), Bigger Than Me @ Park Hill Golf Club (open to the public)

Lincoln Park / Baker – Boys & Girls Clubs (The Cope Club) (closed due to covid)

Five Points – Heart & Hand, the Thomas Bean Towers, and Denver Health‘s MEND Program at the Eastside Clinic

Whittier – Red Shield  (closed due to covid)

Berkeley & Chaffee Park – Magon Academy & Sister Gardens (open to the public with some limitations)

Aurora – Project Worthmore

Montbello – KIPP College Prep, Maxwell Elementary, Academy 360

Sun Valley –  Sun Valley Kitchen   (open to the public) & Denver Health‘s MEND Program at the Westside Clinic

East Colfax – Street Fraternity  (open to the public)

Villa Park – Casa de Rosal

Virginia Village/Glendale – Placebridge Academy

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Globeville – Birdseed Collective

Birdseed Collective is a small community and arts non-profit organization directed by two former long-time residents of Globeville. One of their goals is to create opportunities for positive community and artistic programs in the Globeville neighborhood and Denver more generally. With years of experience in implementing many projects and programs, Birdseed Collective and volunteers have committed to running a weekly resident-based food distribution program called “The Globeville Free Healthy Food Distribution and Preservation Program.” Through collaboration with Denver Food Rescue who redistributes the healthy food to Globeville, our Monday distribution program at the Globeville Recreation Center is going on it’s 6th strong year.

 

Program details:
Open to the Public
Globeville Rec. Center: 4496 Grant St. Denver, CO 80216
Mondays at 3:00 pm 4:00 pm

 

 

 

Elyria-Swansea – The GrowHaus

The GrowHaus is a nonprofit indoor farm, marketplace and educational center in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood. Their vision is a world where all communities have the means to nourish themselves, and their mission is to create a community-driven, neighborhood-based food system by serving as a hub for food distribution, production, education, and economic development.

The GrowHaus partners with DFR to provide an educational grocery program every Monday. In this innovative community- led program, participants engage in a creative cooking class, and strengthen community ties by sharing a delicious meal together, all alongside the free distribution of healthy food.

Covid Update: The Grow Haus is currently delivering fresh foods to over 400 homes each week.

 

 

 

Clayton – Clayton Early Learning

A major proving ground for all things early childhood, Clayton Early Learning is Colorado’s leading catalyst in providing early care and education, and collaborating with others to improve these important services. Our work focuses on ensuring optimal development during the critical birth-to-5 period for all children, especially those of limited opportunities. We succeed in closing learning gaps of disadvantaged children through a powerful model unique to Clayton Early Learning that harnesses the synergy of four dynamic initiatives – research, practice, training, and advocacy.

Specifically, the Food for Families committee at Clayton Early Learning was created as a result of high levels of food insecurity among families we serve. Our committee aims to provide nutritious food for all families and staff, as well as nutrition education and cooking skills. Our partnership with Denver Food Rescue allows staff and families to access healthy fruits and vegetables, to trade new recipes with others, and encourages them to try new foods!

Program details:
Open to Clayton Early Learning families

 

 

Park Hill – Boys & Girls Clubs 

As one of the most well-known youth organizations in the country, Boys & Girls Clubs provide young people with opportunities to engage in programs that help them achieve academic success, take charge of their health by building healthy habits that will stick with them throughout their lives, and foster the skills they need to become leaders in their communities.The Vickers Boys & Girls Club provides services to young people in the area, providing a place from them to learn, grow and succeed in life. They have had a No Cost Grocery Program set up for youth and their families who participate in the program since September of 2014.

Program details:
Open to Vickers Boys & Girl Club parents & families

Covid Update: Open to the public

 

 

 

Lincoln Park / Baker – Boys & Girls Clubs (The Cope Club)

As one of the most well-known youth organizations in the country, Boys & Girls Clubs provide young people with The Cope Club serves nearly 1,000 members each year and participates in a variety of community events. The Club also features the Teen Center equipped with computer stations, books and research resources, and serves as a quiet place for teens to concentrate on their studies and have fun. They have had a No Cost Grocery Program since 2015.

Program Details:
Open to Cope Boys & Girls Club families

 

 

 

Five Points – Heart & Hand

Heart & Hand is dedicated to improving the lives of at risk youth and their families. Through high quality out of school time programming, we empower all children and families with the skills, information, and resources they need to create and realize their dreams. By investing in consistent and compassionate support for our children and families, we strive to disrupt the cycle of poverty and close the opportunity gap.

Heart & Hand serves 100, low-income youth in Denver’s 5 Points neighborhood. What makes Heart & Hand unique is our model of long term, intensive support. Our students come day after day, year after year, because they are known and nurtured in the Heart & Hand family. Daily programming ensures students develop the resources that research shows are critical for long term success: relationships with trusted adults, supportive peer networks, a safe after school environment, academic support, empowerment programming, and social-emotional skill building.

Heart & Hand families are grateful to Denver Food Rescue for the supply of fresh fruits and vegetables we receive on Wednesdays at our after school program site. This nutritious bounty is especially valuable to our many food insecure families.

Program Details:
Open to Heart & Hand families

 

 

Regis –Ricardo Flores Magon Academy and Sister Gardens by Frontline Farming

In spring of 2017 launched our 13th No Cost Grocery Program with the Ricardo Flores Magon Academy. RFM has a rich history of serving Hispanic students, teaching both academic and civic engagement.  However, 92% of the student body qualify for reduced or free lunch. A parent committee and the student council come together to make this program happen each week.

Sister Gardens is the 14th partner of Denver Food Rescue in hosting a No Cost Grocery Program. Sister’s is an 1 1/2 acre veggie, herb, and flower farm powered by Front Line Farming.

Program Details: 

Open to RFM families

 

 

 

Aurora – Project Worthmore

Project Worthmore (PWM) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the quality of life of Denver-area refugees by providing cultural mentorship and community supports. Started by Frank and Carolyn Anello in early 2011, PWM began as a makeshift response to the unmet needs of our refugee neighbors. Now as relationships and knowledge of refugee needs have grown, the community response has become an organized effort to serve the vast needs through the heart of our community.

The Food Share Program at PWM was created in response to the lack of access to affordable fresh fruits and vegetable for refugees in Metro-Denver. Twice a week, volunteers pick up the rescued produce. They then deliver it PWM, where there is a special storage area with refrigeration. Those same days, between 25-35 refugee families come to “shop” for the food that they want. In order to offer culturally-relevant and healthful food, no canned, processed or sugar-laden food is accepted. One hundred and fifty families have accessed fresh, nutritious food during weekly distribution times, in a “market-style” setting where they may choose food items. The Yu Meh Food Share strives to be culturally-appropriate and community-driven through a membership process and including refugees as volunteers and leaders. Each family that utilizes the program has a membership card that is bought for $10. In the year since the program started, more than thirty thousand pounds of food have been distributed in partnership with Denver Food Rescue, Metro Caring, Fresh Guys, Sprout City Farms, and 5280 Produce.

Program Details:
Open to Refugee populations

 

 

Montbello – KIPP College Prep, Maxwell Elementary, Academy 360

Due to the unique size and layout of the Montbello neighborhood, members of this community decided that there should be multiple No Cost Grocery Programs across the neighborhood to reach the maximum number of families. Through a long community listening and feedback integration process, the Montbello community decided on three locations for their NCGPs: KIPP College Prep, Maxwell Elementary, and Academy 360, all DPS schools, equally spaced across the neighborhood. This model is a first for DFR, but has shown incredible success and room for growth since it’s implementation in the spring of 2016. Each program occurs on Thursday afternoons as the schools are letting out, giving families the ability to conveniently pick up fresh produce as they are picking up their kids from school. These programs each provide fresh produce for about 50 families every week, and operate throughout the year. All are open to the surrounding community.

Program Details:
Open to school families

 

Sun Valley –  Sun Valley Kitchen

Residents and organizations came together to help facilitate healthy food access to over 100 people each week. Did you know 60% of residents in Sun Valley are under the age of 18? This is an ideal demographic to participate with considering DFR’s long-term goal of increasing health equity.

Program Details:
Open to the Public

Sun Valley Kitchen 1260 Decatur St, Denver, CO 80204
Wednesdays at 2:00 pm, Saturdays at 11:00 am

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Holiday special home deliveries with @rmmutualaid Holiday special home deliveries with @rmmutualaid and @birdseedcollective - food insecurity (and healthy food that doesn’t belong in the dumpster) doesn’t take a break for the holidays and neither do these rad community workers.

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Instagram Story Special tomorrow at 9:30 AM! Tune Instagram Story Special tomorrow at 9:30 AM! Tune in as DFR's program operations coordinator Kezia Lozano shows us the opening of a BRAND NEW No Cost Grocery Program. 

Kezia is so super rad and we are so lucky to have her on our team. Check out her bio below.

Kezia, our Program Operations Coordinator, is a wayward Texan who now calls Denver home after graduating from the University of Virginia with degrees in Sociology and Political Science in 2019. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, she prides herself in her pursuit of making the world a better place para la raza and all marginalized folks.  In addition to a passion for food justice that sprouted from her lived experience, Kezia is also passionate about immigrant/undocumented rights, racial justice, indigenous sovereignty, preserving the rights and dignity of our houseless neighbors, and queer rights. Kezia has been with DFR since August 2020.

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You've shown Colorado that food comes first. Suppo You've shown Colorado that food comes first. Supporting food access work is the foundation because we've got to eat! But for DFR it's not just about filling stomachs but increasing access to healthful foods that nourish the whole body. It's also about the way food is distributed - in an empowering way - designed to have long lasting impacts on community for decades to come. 

We do this work TOGETHER, intentionally collaborative! From our 21 No Cost Grocery Program partners to the 335 individuals that gave financially yesterday. 

This success is all of ours to celebrate.
Thank you for the incredible honor of announcing our CO Gives 2020 total of $56,186!!! 

We love you! -The DFR team

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Um...what!?!? Just a little under 9 hours to go fo Um...what!?!? Just a little under 9 hours to go for #ColoradoGivesDay and we are nearly at 75% of our goal. We are beyond humbled by your increased support this year - Colorado loves Coloradans and it shows! 
Donations made up until midnight will be included in the 1 million incentive fund from the Community First Foundation.

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The diversity of your support makes Denver Food Re The diversity of your support makes Denver Food Rescue’s multifaceted work possible. Supporters who not only care about health equity, food security, and environmental health but also supporters who are committed to the change of how we respond to injustices. Your action to help build a collective transformation results in widespread, long lasting impacts. 
This is what it takes to shift. This is why we focus on and highlight the diversity of our community partners in #25DaysofDFR 
Plan your Colorado Gives Day gift now. Diversified support = diversified impact.
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#25DaysofDFR includes the announcement of THREE ne #25DaysofDFR includes the announcement of THREE new No Cost Grocery Program communities that have joined us just in the last two months. Welcome Denver Health's Eastside Clinic's MEND program, Casa de Rosal in Villa Park, and Bigger Than Me in Park Hill. Big shout outs to community leaders Preety Lal, Candice Bailey, and Andrea Loudd for making these programs a reality. 
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In all, the life expectancy in Globeville is nearly eight years shorter than the rest of the state, at 72.8 years compared with 80.5, according to estimates using 2010-15 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Heart & Hand

Heart & Hand is dedicated to improving the lives of at risk youth and their families. Through high quality out of school time programming, we empower all children and families with the skills, information, and resources they need to create and realize their dreams. By investing in consistent and compassionate support for our children and families, we strive to disrupt the cycle of poverty and close the opportunity gap.

Heart & Hand serves 100, low-income youth in Denver’s 5 Points neighborhood. What makes Heart & Hand unique is our model of long term, intensive support. Our students come day after day, year after year, because they are known and nurtured in the Heart & Hand family. Daily programming ensures students develop the resources that research shows are critical for long term success: relationships with trusted adults, supportive peer networks, a safe after school environment, academic support, empowerment programming, and social-emotional skill building.

Heart & Hand families are grateful to Denver Food Rescue for the supply of fresh fruits and vegetables we receive on Wednesdays at our after school program site. This nutritious bounty is especially valuable to our many food insecure families.

Program Details:
Open to Heart & Hand families

The Cope Club

As one of the most well-known youth organizations in the country, Boys & Girls Clubs provide young people with The Cope Club serves nearly 1,000 members each year and participates in a variety of community events. The Club also features the Teen Center equipped with computer stations, books and research resources, and serves as a quiet place for teens to concentrate on their studies and have fun. They have had a No Cost Grocery Program since 2015.

Program Details:
Open to Cope Boys & Girls Club families
808 Inca St, Denver, CO 80204
Mondays 3pm to 9pm

Boys & Girls Clubs

As one of the most well-known youth organizations in the country, Boys & Girls Clubs provide young people with opportunities to engage in programs that help them achieve academic success, take charge of their health by building healthy habits that will stick with them throughout their lives, and foster the skills they need to become leaders in their communities.The Vickers Boys & Girls Club provides services to young people in the area, providing a place from them to learn, grow and succeed in life. They have had a No Cost Grocery Program set up for youth and their families who participate in the program since September of 2014.

Program details:
Open to Vickers Boys & Girl Club parents & families

Clayton Early Learning

A major proving ground for all things early childhood, Clayton Early Learning is Colorado’s leading catalyst in providing early care and education, and collaborating with others to improve these important services. Our work focuses on ensuring optimal development during the critical birth-to-5 period for all children, especially those of limited opportunities. We succeed in closing learning gaps of disadvantaged children through a powerful model unique to Clayton Early Learning that harnesses the synergy of four dynamic initiatives – research, practice, training, and advocacy.

Specifically, the Food for Families committee at Clayton Early Learning was created as a result of high levels of food insecurity among families we serve. Our committee aims to provide nutritious food for all families and staff, as well as nutrition education and cooking skills. Our partnership with Denver Food Rescue allows staff and families to access healthy fruits and vegetables, to trade new recipes with others, and encourages them to try new foods!

Program details
Open to Clayton Early Learning families

 

The GrowHaus

The GrowHaus is a nonprofit indoor farm, marketplace and educational center in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood.  Our vision is a world where all communities have the means to nourish themselves, and our mission is to create a community-driven, neighborhood-based food system by serving as a hub for food distribution, production, education, and economic development.

The GrowHaus partners with DFR to provide an educational grocery program every Monday. In this innovative community- led program, participants engage in a creative cooking class, and strengthen community ties by sharing a delicious meal together, all alongside the free distribution of healthy food. Our MOVIL (mobile) grocery program delivers these free grocery items to nearly 20 home-bound neighbors each week (usually by bike!). These programs also provide job opportunities for several residents of our neighborhood.

Program Details:
Open to the public

The GrowHaus 4751 York St, Denver, CO 80216
Mondays at 11:00 am

Birdseed Collective

Birdseed Collective is a small community & arts non-profit organization directed by two former long-time residents of Globeville. One of their goals is to create opportunities for positive community and artistic programs in the Globeville neighborhood and Denver more generally. With years of experience in implementing many projects and programs, Birdseed Collective and volunteers have committed to running a weekly resident-based food distribution program called “The Globeville Free Healthy Food Distribution and Preservation Program.” Through collaboration with Denver Food Rescue who redistributes the healthy food to Globeville, our Monday distribution program at the Globeville Recreation Center is going on it’s 3rd strong year.

Hunger is a sensitive issue and must be handled with compassion and in a non-intrusive environment. With a culturally sensitive and education-focused approach, participants receive pounds of healthy food weekly, learn about and try new healthy food options, learn food preservation techniques, and build community. Also through this program, 4 residents are now employed and are educated in job skills which they will use in the future. In 2015, our program served 387 unduplicated participants, and distributed 38,684 pounds of healthy food. This does not include fresh donations from Rainbo Bread and Raquelita’s Tortillas. Many goals for the program have been achieved such as hiring 4 residents and other staff, adding food preservation and expanding on our mission of “The Art of Healthy Living.”

Program details:
Open to the Public
Globeville Rec. Center: 4496 Grant St. Denver, CO 80216
Mondays at 3:00 pm 4:00 pm