What to Know About the Summer Meal Program for Kids
Ensuring that children in our community have enough to eat is always a top priority for Food Bank of the Rockies, and meeting that need becomes an even more prescient challenge during the summer months. “Currently, one in five children in Colorado is food insecure,” says Tami Anderson, Food For Kids manager at Food […]
Onsite with Food Bank of the Rockies: Meet Jeanette
Like so many others across the globe, the past year has affected Jeanette B. and her family in ways they could never have anticipated. In March of 2020, just as the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic was making itself known, Jeanette lost her job as a truck driver for English Transportation in Wiggins, Colorado, due […]
Mobile Food Pantry Volunteers: What To Know Before Your First Shift
When it comes to serving your community, there are few more immediate or impactful ways to do so than as a food pantry volunteer at one of Food Bank of the Rockies’ 70-plus Mobile Food Pantry locations. “Mobile Pantries are unique among Food Bank of the Rockies’ programs in that you’re directly distributing to the […]
Statement on Atlanta Shootings and Violence Against Asian Americans & the BIPOC Community
We condemn the murders in Atlanta and the anti-Asian sentiments and increase in hate crimes across the country. We mourn the loss of Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Ae Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, and Paul Andre Michels, and our thoughts are with their loved ones. We stand […]
COVID-19 Pandemic: One Year Later – Q&A With Our CEO, Erin Pulling
About this time a year ago, President & CEO of Food Bank of the Rockies, Erin Pulling, was walking through the 45th Avenue distribution center and “it was like crickets.” Normally about 100 volunteers would be bustling about, but there was almost nobody around. The shutdown was beginning to take hold, and people had to […]
Food Bank of the Rockies Delivers 100 Million Pounds of Food In 2020
The year 2020 is going to live on in many people’s minds for a long time – it was a time of need and uncertainty, but also, a time of communities coming together and helping each other in ways that they haven’t done before. And ours is no exception! For the first time in our […]
