Serving Up a Whole Lotta Hope
Last Tuesday, 13 Colorado hospitality organizations from the Meetings Industry of Colorado (MIC) joined forces again for the 19th Annual Serving Up Hope (SUH) Luncheon to raise more than $22,000 for FBR! This is a favorite of ours every year. The food is fabulous and a tremendous amount of work goes into this successful luncheon event! […]
Shop O Rama 2012
For 20 years, media rock stars from our local TV and Radio stations gather to kick off “Check Out Hunger,” hosted by our friends at Natural Grocers. This campaign raises funds for Food Bank of the Rockies’ (FBR) Children’s programs through the FBR Nutrition Network. Teams of two strategize how they’ll fill up their grocery […]
Partnering with 70 Wild Animals
We do our very best at FBR to ensure that food is not wasted. There are occasions when we receive food that doesn’t meet the standards for distribution to our agency partners. Rather than throw these items away, we recently partnered with the Indigo Mountain Nature Center out of Lake George, CO to pick up […]
Faces of Food Bank: Meggan
Meet Meggan. She’s relatively new to our food bank family and can be found smiling and chatting with agencies at the agency order window. Meggan processes orders and invoices for partner agencies and assists with all order related questions. Before she began her career at FBR, she worked with the Peace Corp in West Africa […]
Healthy & Affordable Cooking Education at Food Bank
FBR offers a range of food items to our agencies. Many items are staples but some leave agencies wondering, “How can I best use this to serve clients or teach clients how to use this at home?” We aim to help our agencies utilize the food received from FBR in various ways. In early October, our friend Chef Jackson Lamb volunteered his […]
Faces of Food Bank: Jed
Jed is a culinary expert, assisting with meal preparation in our King Soopers Community Kitchen. He works with our Chef/Culinary Manager, Paul, and with volunteers on a daily basis and follows meeting industry standards for proper product handling, storage, sanitation requirements and inventory levels/control. Jed joined the staff after spending time as a volunteer. He […]