Meet the 2023 Volunteers of the Year
When we say we can’t do what we do without our dedicated, hard-working volunteers, we couldn’t be more serious. Last year, volunteers donated 100,600 hours across our distribution centers. That’s the equivalent of more than 4,190 days and $3 million in in-kind support — a truly incredible gift of time, energy, and compassion. We […]
Food Bank of the Rockies Driver Reflects on the Impact of Her Work
In this 9News story, Food Bank of the Rockies’ staff member Monique “Mo” Moore, offers a behind the scenes look at her day, delivering food from our Denver-based distribution center to a mobile pantry site. Food Bank of the Rockies holds 70 mobile pantries each month in areas that do not have readily available access […]
Behind the Scenes at Food Bank of the Rockies’ Distribution Center
It takes a big team to move the equivalent of more than 180,000 meals a day through the doors and out to people who need them. In this 9News story, Kelly Green, Vice President of Operations for Food Bank of the Rockies, provides a behind the scenes peek at our Denver distribution center.
SNAP Emergency Allotment Decrease and How You Can Help
Record-high inflation rates coupled with the need for food in our community being higher than pre-COVID levels has led to Food Bank of the Rockies spending more than three-times as much money per month to purchase food as we were before the pandemic to provide our neighbors with the food they need. Additionally, with the […]
Erin Pulling Reflects on the Values and Priorities of Food Bank of the Rockies
To Erin Pulling, becoming CEO of Food Bank of the Rockies was a bit of a leap – she had never run such a large organization before and she didn’t know anything about food banking. At the same time, she couldn’t deny the feeling that she had landed in a “right place-right time” type of […]
A New Distribution Center for the Western Slope
Food Bank of the Rockies’ new distribution center on the Western Slope is now open. The Etkin Family Distribution Center, located in Grand Junction, offers greater storage capacity compared to the Food Bank’s previous distribution center in Palisade, allowing for both an increase in volume and efficiency for food distribution to neighbors experiencing food insecurity. […]