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 […]
Celebrating Summer Lunches with the Mayor, Miles and Ed McCaffrey
School is out and summer lunches are served! Food Bank of the Rockies will be providing nutritious lunches to kids across our service area all summer. We’re supplying food for more than 70 sites, to kids who might not otherwise have enough healthy food at home. Kids munched on hamburgers or sandwiches, strawberries, sweet potato […]
Thank You CHS for Your Harvest for Hunger!
Last week we were extremely grateful to receive a generous contribution from CHS employees, customers and partners! Everyone had a good time raising funds too. M&M Cooperative group held its first Cajun boil and mouse race in Yuma to benefit the Harvest for Hunger campaign. This event alone raised enough to provide 36,300 meals to Food Bank […]