61,000 Ears of Sweet Corn Donated to Feeding Colorado
On Saturday, August 9, volunteers picked, bagged, put on pallets and loaded 61,000 ears of sweet corn onto a semi in 3 hours! 90 volunteers, hailing from the Fort Morgan area and members of Calvary Chapel Aurora, joined forces and brought their heavy lifting skills out into the field to pick, pack and load all […]
Morgan Stanley Grant Brings Needed Support to Child BackPack Program, Totes of Hope®
Food Bank of the Rockies received a $25,000 grant from Morgan Stanley to fund its Totes of Hope ™ – Children, a child hunger initiative that helps to make sure kids are fed outside of school hours. This grant is the second gift Food Bank of the Rockies has received from Morgan Stanley, bringing the total […]
Karen Keeps Nutritious Food from Going to Waste
Food Bank of the Rockies (FBR) wants to make sure nutritious food ends up feeding hungry people, not thrown away in landfills. Thanks to a generous grant from the Walmart Foundation, FBR has some extra help. The funds from the grant allowed us to hire a Retail Store Donation Coordinator. Karen McManus, recently hired for […]
Look Who’s “Milling” Around Our Warehouse!
A new group of volunteers helped us ring in Warehouse Wednesday this week. A team of hardworking employees from the newly formed Ardent Mills sorted food, filled orders and even paired up some donated crutches. Ardent Mills, the largest flour miller in the U.S., combines the operations of ConAgra Mills and Horizon Milling, a joint venture […]
Summer Hunger? CenturyLink “Can” Help!
In 37 states across the country, CenturyLink team members were brainstorming ways to make summer a little brighter for their hungry neighbors, through the 2014 CenturyLink Backpack Buddies Food Drive, Denver area employees participated in the 3rd Annual CenturyLink Can-Sculpture Challenge. Teams were asked to create designs around the theme of “Front Range Food Fight” (Colorado […]
Thank You Buckley Air Force Base!
Not only are these brave men and women serving their country, they’re also serving their community. Today in our warehouse, team members from the base volunteered to pull food orders, an important task to help us get food to our partner agencies and neighbors in need. Pulling orders is a bit like shopping at a discount food […]