As the Pandemic Continues, Food Insecurity Remains
Since March 2020, our focus at Food Bank of the Rockies has been on serving our partners and clients with tenacity and strength as life as we all knew it was repeatedly and totally upended due to the COVID-19 crisis. In 2020, the need for food in our service areas increased by upwards of 50%, […]
Nourishing Body and Heart with Familiar Foods Through the Culturally Responsive Food Initiative
When most of us think of a home-cooked meal, the image that comes to mind is one of a familiar recipe made with specific ingredients that nourishes both body and heart. In order to provide more meals that satisfy in this way, last year Food Bank of the Rockies and Food Bank of Wyoming launched […]
Meet Kate Budd, Food Bank of the Rockies’ Mobile Pantries Representative
Serving as Food Bank of the Rockies’ Mobile Pantries Representative is a full-circle experience for Kate Budd. “I have relatives who benefitted from food banks in southern Texas growing up,” she explains. “I’m adopted, and my family’s whole mantra is that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. When you have the opportunity […]
Hunger Relief Partner Highlight: Thai Nguyen and Kaizen Food Rescue
If you ask Thai Nguyen how she manages to do all the things that she does—be a mother to three kids, oversee the operations of Kaizen Food Rescue, invest in her community—she’ll smile and shrug the question off. She just does. Simple as that. Except that nothing about Thai’s work is simple. In fact, it’s […]
