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 […]
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 […]
Food Bank of the Rockies Leads the March Towards Giving
Giving is at the heart of all we do. Too often, we don’t think about just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the people around us, particularly if we have been able to keep our incomes fairly steady as we work from home. However, at Food Bank of the Rockies, we’ve noticed just […]
Never Forget Where You Came From
Sometimes, you have to walk a mile in someone’s shoes before you can fully realize how a little bit of support can change your life. This is certainly the case with one of our supporters, Connie. As a child, her mom, Joanne, worked extremely hard to provide for her family, but as many people […]