Pound for Pound, We’re Fighting Hunger

Food Bank of the Rockies, along with Feeding America, General Mills and The Biggest Loser are excited to announce the 2011 Pound for Pound Challenge.  The Pound for Pound Challenge is built around the incredible success of NBC’s The Biggest Loser, and the timing at the start of the new year is perfect. The program […]

Surprise Donation from Purina Makes the Holidays Brighter

Food Bank of the Rockies received notice of an early Christmas gift this year from our friends at Purina. For their $1 Million in ONE Day campaign, Purina sent out street teams to Denver, New Orleans, Miami and New York  on 12/20/10 and gave randomly selected people an opportunity to donate $5,000, in their name, […]

KBCO Studio C Fights Hunger

We’re proud to once again be chosen as a recipient for the proceeds of KBCO’s coveted Studio C album! On Saturday, December 4, FBR staff and volunteers joined forces with KBCO staff, representatives from Boulder Aids Project, Key Bank folks and endless lines of KBCO fans outside various Ultimate Electronics locations around town.  The goal?  Thousands of […]

Blowing Glass, Fighting Hunger

PISMO Fine Art Glass, Colorado’s foremost gallery for glass art,  joined forces with the “Colorado Project” to benefit FBR. PISMO hosted a reception and silent auction on October 8, 2010, at their Denver gallery in Cherry Creek North. The glass works that were auctioned were donated by more than two dozen artists participating in the Colorado […]

2 Days On Air Provides 3.6 Million Meals

If you’re a Mix 100 listener, you’re aware that the 12 Annual Dom and Jane Charity Marathon just raised over 3.6 million meals for our neighbor in need!  How awesome is that?  Our office has been a buzz with excitement.  We look forward to this event each and every year and are taken back by how generous our […]

Filling Empty Bowls

Taken from a 12/1/2010 YourHub.com article: You’re invited to help fill “Empty Bowls” in our community. The annual Cherry Creek Schools Empty Bowls event, benefiting Food Bank of the Rockies, will be held from 4-7 pm on Thursday, December 9, in the West Cafeteria at Cherry Creek High School. Handmade bowls made by ceramic students from Cherry […]