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2X Matching Gift Challenge

Right now, hunger is at a 10-year high across our region.

To help meet this moment, your gift today will be matched to make 2X the impact for our neighbors.

Right now, hunger is at a 10-year high across our region. Please, make a matched gift now.

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2X Match Deadline Extended

Hunger is on the rise across Colorado.

Now through April 30, your donation will be matched to make 2X the impact for our neighbors.

Help address the emergency level of need in our region while your gift = 2X the impact!

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3X Flash Match: Midnight Deadline

Through midnight TONIGHT, your donation will be matched to make 3X the impact for our neighbors.

Help address the emergency level of need in our region while your gift = 3X the impact!

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Help us get better food to more people, more efficiently than ever before.

Now until the end of July, your gift to our Fulfilled Capital Campaign goes 2X as far to help meet the needs of our neighbors facing hunger for years to come.

DOUBLE your gift to the Fulfilled Capital Campaign to help meet the needs of our neighbors facing hunger for years to come.

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Children with food boxes.

10X Your Impact: Today Only!

Help us build for our future.

Don't miss this chance to make 10X the difference with your support of the Fulfilled Capital Campaign and help nourish your community for years to come.

Until midnight only, your gift goes 10X as far to help nourish our community for years to come.

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Children with food boxes.

Help us get better food to more people, more efficiently than ever before.

Now until the end of July, your gift to our Fulfilled Capital Campaign goes 2X as far to help meet the needs of our neighbors facing hunger for years to come.

DOUBLE your gift to the Fulfilled Capital Campaign to help meet the needs of our neighbors facing hunger for years to come.

State of Hunger

FBR held a “State of Hunger” press conference yesterday at the Colorado Nonprofit Association to address hunger on national and local levels.  Panelists included Feeding America’s, Eric Davis, Hunger Free Colorado’s, Kathy Underhill, FBR’s Kevin Seggelke and His Hands Christina Ministries, Johnny Davis.  Each panelist spoke about their organization’s challenges and discussed the reality of growing demand for food assistance.  The Denver Post was a part of the conference and featured a front page story this morning.   

Denver and the West

Colo. Food Banks See “Staggering” Increase in Need

By Colleen O’Connor
The Denver Post
11/18/2010
Colo. Food Banks See “Staggering” Increase in Need –
Colorado’s five major food banks distributed more than 76 million pounds of food throughout the state last year, a 25 percent increase over the previous year, and experts expect worse to come.  “Already, this fiscal year . . . is on pace for another 7 to 10 percent increase over the prior year, which makes that a 32 to 35 percent increase over a two-year time period,” said Kevin Seggelke, president and chief executive of Food Bank of the Rockies. “That’s just a staggering number.
 
Read the rest of the Denver Post’s article here.

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