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Denver Food Rescue was proud to partner with Denver Urban Gardens and Groundwork Denver to bring you the Fresh Food Connect Web-App that brings healthy fresh produce to no cost grocery programs, reduces food waste, and provides jobs to youth. In 2018, Fresh Food Connect (FFC) became its own 501c3 with a mission to spread FFC chapters nation wide. To find out how to become an operator in your zip code (in any state!) please contact Helen, FFC’s interim CEO.
It’s so simple! Gardeners open the FFC web-app to indicate that they have extra vegetables, fruit, or even flowers to donate. The FFC web-app will map out a route for youth employees from Groundwork Denver to collect the donation using electric trikes. The produce is then donated to neighborhood with less access to fresh produce.
If you are a home or community gardener in 80207, 80205, 80220, 80210, 80212, 80221, 80211 DFR or Groundwork Denver will come right to your doorstep to pick up your garden grown produce and share it with community based organizations addressing food access in their neighborhoods!
Visit Fresh Food Connect to see sign up and get donating (season runs late June to early November). Interested in donating but don’t live in an area in which we currently pick up? Register anyway so we know where to expand to next!
Thank you Denver for all of your support on this innovative, collaborative project!
- Impact 100
- Code for Denver
- Innovate for Good
- SHARE Network
- Whole Foods Market
- Morgridge Family Foundation
Pay what you can’ produce program expands to 5 neighborhoods on 9 News (September 21, 2017)
Local produce-sharing program Fresh Food Connect Expands into 80203 in Life On Capitol Hill (September 7, 2017)
Got Extra Home Grown Produce? There’s an App for That. in 5280 Magazine (September 12, 2016)
New App Picks Up Surplus Vegetables on 9News (June 15, 2016)
Fresh Food Connect’s Harvest of Opportunity in Confluence Denver (June 22, 2016)
Bike-Powered, Food Desert Fighting Group Receives $100,000 Grant in Neighborhood Life (August 3, 2016)
Impact100 Metro Denver Awards $100k to Fresh Food Connect in The Denver Post Your Hub (June 21, 2016)
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Denver Food Rescue Mailing: PO Box 18890 Denver, CO 80218 Physical: 135 Park Ave. West Denver, CO 80205 Contact (720) 675-7337 info@denverfoodrescue.org
Heart & Hand
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.
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.
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